Ed. Note: Lee R. Raymond died last week at age 87. The top integrated oil leader of his era is featured in three posts this week at MasterResource. Past posts on Raymond can be found here.
“[Lee Raymond] is a leader among leaders. He’s always encouraged and considered a range of views and opinions on a multitude of issues … including climate change.” – Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan.
If the bottom line of business is winning for consumers and stockholders, few have matched the accomplishments of Lee Raymond (1938–2026), whose 42 years at Exxon/Exxon-Mobil culminated as CEO from 1993 through 2005. His is a classic case of creating sustainable economic value through talent, focus, and perseverance. Forget what those with termite aspirations toward fossil fuels think. Voluntary means and human betterment cinch the case.…
MasterResource previously announced the launch of “Climate Truth Tellers” by the Sierra Club to flood social media with comments on climate and energy issues from the alarmist, statist, Climate Industrial Complex perspective. “Climate disinformation is rampant on social media,” the project stated, “but the volunteers of Sierra Club’s Climate Truth Tellers team are fighting back by uplifting positive, fact-based posts.” The “trolls” (like me) must be winning!
I challenged readers to sign up. We, too, can weigh-in on “How important is clean, renewable energy to you” and “How important is protecting our public lands from destructive drilling, mining, and fracking?“. I signed up. I am a Climate Truth Teller and wanted to get behind enemy lines and evaluate what the spoon feeding was about.
Jennifer McCharen sent the following to the CLIMATE-TRUTH-TELLERS list serve last week (May 29, 2026):
Hello Truth Tellers….…
When asked about Paul Ehrlich receiving the MacArthur Genius Award, Julian Simon replied: “MacArthur! I can’t even get a McDonald’s!” Added Ed Regis in a Simon profile in Wired:
This did not discourage him. Doomslaying was a thankless task, but it had to be done, like taking out the garbage: it had to be carted to the dump today even if there’d be another big pile of it tomorrow.
Enter the latest neo-Malthusian award winner, Seth Borenstein, the blatantly biased climate reporter/alarmist, who is a recipient of this year’s (2026) Hall of Fame honorees as chosen by the Society of Professional Journalists, Washington, D.C. Chapter, “honoring the best journalism produced in the District of Columbia and metropolitan Maryland and Virginia.”
…A science writer covering climate change, its impacts and related politics.