Exxon chair admits global warming exists

While it’s true that the formidable monster enemy of gamers everywhere is lag, The Unconquerable, they haven’t met the big boss yet.

Picture this: you are in a PVP room with your ultra-leet ultra-leet Paladin battling it out with a noob who got too cocky. Suddenly the screen goes off and you sit there, surprised and unaware of what happened until it hits you: the power was cut off.

Outside, a storm rages and people run out of their rapidly flooding houses to seek shelter. The weather has always been unpredictable, but now, it has become doubly still. You wish to go back to the virtual world but there’s no news of when the power’s coming back, or when it’ll finally stop raining…

Global warming is real, here and now. Global warming is bad.

It’s so bad that Exxon Mobil Chairman Rex Tillerson told a world energy conference that “there is no question that the world’s climate is getting warmer,” and said that technological advances and a global strategy will be needed to combat the rise in carbon emissions. Tillerson’s remark expressed Exxon Mobil’s continuation of its growing strategy to make itself part of the global climate debate rather than denying that the problem exists.

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While it’s true that the formidable monster enemy of gamers everywhere is lag, The Unconquerable, they haven’t met the big boss yet.

Picture this: you are in a PVP room with your ultra-leet ultra-leet Paladin battling it out with a noob who got too cocky. Suddenly the screen goes off and you sit there, surprised and unaware of what happened until it hits you: the power was cut off.

Outside, a storm rages and people run out of their rapidly flooding houses to seek shelter. The weather has always been unpredictable, but now, it has become doubly still. You wish to go back to the virtual world but there’s no news of when the power’s coming back, or when it’ll finally stop raining…

Global warming is real, here and now. Global warming is bad.

It’s so bad that Exxon Mobil Chairman Rex Tillerson told a world energy conference that “there is no question that the world’s climate is getting warmer,” and said that technological advances and a global strategy will be needed to combat the rise in carbon emissions. Tillerson’s remark expressed Exxon Mobil’s continuation of its growing strategy to make itself part of the global climate debate rather than denying that the problem exists. 

Exxon’s chair also said that Exxon doesn’t feel threatened by the rising interest in alternative or renewable energy. He said, “we don’t feel threatened by alternative or renewable energy, we welcome it. But we have to remember that in the huge scale of energy demand, fossil fuels will account for at least two-thirds of energy consumption for at least the next 25 years.”

However, Tillerson also said Exxon has devoted relatively little money to alternative and renewable energy, aside from a research project at Stanford University, “because we are a petroleum company. That’s what we do, and we do it well.”

“We want to be able to add value to new energy, besides just money,” Tillerson said at a news conference following his speech. “Money isn’t the problem in renewable energy.” Tillerson also didn’t offer specific actions that nations should adopt to combat climate change but said technology can provide the bulk of the answers. He did, however, note that it is important to share our understandings of the industry with the public and policymakers.

This must be a sign for change, to defeat the biggest boss monster of them all: Global Warming. Are you up to the challenge?

Via DFW