Do you think these oil companies wanted to use the best science available in their pre-drilling environmental assessments?
So do you think that climate scientists use the best science available in their attribution studies or do you think they fudge the numbers to ensure they have something exciting to publish?
You seem to want to infer that profit motivated companies are going to cheat if they can but you refuse to consider the possibility that government funded scientists might do the same thing.
Why the shameless hypocrisy?