Politics
Rex Tillerson Questions Human Role in Halting Climate Change
- Comments come after New York said it won’t appeal Exxon case
- Climate change is a ‘very serious matter,’ Tillerson says
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Rex Tillerson, the former U.S. secretary of state under President Donald Trump and ex-chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp., told an industry conference in Houston that he questions whether there is anything humans can do to combat climate change.
“With respect to our ability to influence it, I think that’s still an open question,” Tillerson said Tuesday at the Argus Americas Crude Summit. “Our belief in the ability to influence it is based upon some very, very complicated climate models that have very wide outcomes.”