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‘There Is No Doubt’: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was a Global Threat By Late 1970s
“It is assumed that the major contributors of CO2 are the burning of fossil fuels... There is no doubt that increases in fossil fuel usage and decreases of forest cover are aggravating the potential problem of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. Technology exists to remove CO2 from stack gases but removal of only 50% of the CO2 would double the cost of power generation.”
Those lines appeared in a 1980 report, “Review of Environmental Protection Activities for 1978-1979,” produced by Imperial Oil, Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary.
- dont plants need co2?yurimon
- What a stupid question yuri. Of course they do.monospaced
- Yes, and our gas guzzling cars, refineries, fossil burning energy plants, etc... produce so much co2 that the plants and trees don't know what to do with it.utopian
- plants do much better with high levels of co2 and human activity might have prevented and ice age. worth looksie.yurimon
- human activity has destroyed a significant portion of this planet's rainforests, yurimonospaced