International Business Times: For decades, the oil company Exxon questioned the science of climate change, even as it researched the possible impact of global warming on its operations in the Arctic -- and factored its findings into its plans. Above, U.S. Coast Guard flight loadmaster Kevin Fox, left, and University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Rick Steiner survey ice conditions in the Beaufort Sea, about 200 miles from shore, from the window of a Coast Guard C130 Sept. 30, 2009. Reuters/Yereth Rosen
For the more than 20...