Climate Change
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Just how good were Exxon’s climate projections?
In the 1980s, a group of scientists predicted climate change with uncanny accuracy. Those scientists happened to work for Exxon.
Many fossil fuel companies knew about climate change well before the general public did.
But a recent review of dozens of internal Exxon documents from the 1970s and '80s, found company scientists knew a lot more than the basics of what greenhouse gasses were doing to the planet.
To understand what Exxon knew and how they knew it, let's go back to 1977. This was an important moment in history: Scientists and government agencies were just starting to seriously study climate change. Researchers knew the basics — carbon dioxide levels were rising, and the Earth would most likely get warmer — but there were still a lot of unanswered questions. And Exxon, a major fossil fuel company with a skilled research department, decided to spend millions of dollars to answer those questions for themselves.
- It's called capitalism!utopian
- It's not real, just like space.PhanLo
- socialist countries don't burn fossil fuels? the only hail mary we have is capital-intensive entrepreneurship.hotroddy
- Lol. Hotrods loves the lying oil companies. What s as guyPhanLo
- the same oil companies that screwed his country over?_niko
- the gov't screwed the oil companies. they produce only a fraction of what they used to.hotroddy
- the irony of utopian's dimwitted comment is socialism actually can work if the country is rich in oil. look no further to Norway or Arabian countrieshotroddy
- HotKnobby - you are such a brainwashed, boot licking, neanderthal apologist.
Stockholm Syndrome much?utopian - apologist? you've known the same shit Exxon for nearly the same amount of time. What have you done to remedy the issue? Lying about canceling your amazon?hotroddy