"Shell's 1991 warning: climate changing ‘at faster rate than at any time since end of ice age’", 28 Feb 2017

Climate change “at a rate faster than at any time since the end of the ice age... That was the startling warning issued by the oil giant Shell more than a quarter of a century ago [in its] farsighted 1991 film, titled Climate of Concern, [which] set out with crystal clarity how the world was warming and that serious consequences could well result...But Shell’s actions on global warming since 1991, such as major investments in highly polluting tar sands…have been heavily criticised… [and] the revelation of the film… has renewed the criticism….Shell had, in fact, known of the risks of climate change even earlier. A “confidential” company report written in 1986… warned of the possibility of “fast and dramatic” changes…In 1989, Shell had already taken the effects of climate change into account in the construction of an oil rig…[but was also] a member of a…business lobby group that campaigned against climate action…Shell has also lobbied directly to undermine European renewable energy targets… [While] Shell was one of the first major oil companies to acknowledge the need to act on climate change… in 2015 its own external review committee concluded Shell’s sustainability report did not “adequately convey the urgency of this [low-carbon energy] transition”.