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On 12 Jan 2023, Klaus Schadenfreude
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:46:35 -0800 (PST), bigdog
<geowright1963@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 2:20:37 PM UTC-5, AlleyCat wrote:
Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made
remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil
fuels would warm the planet.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Jan. 12, 2023, 2:00 p.m. ET
In the late 1970s, scientists at Exxon fitted one of the company’s
supertankers with state-of-the-art equipment to measure carbon
dioxide in the ocean and in the air, an early example of substantial
research the oil giant conducted into the science of climate change.
A new study published Thursday in the journal Science found that
over the next decades, Exxon’s scientists made remarkably accurate
projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the
planet. Their projections were as accurate, and sometimes even more
so, as those of independent academic and government models.
Yet for years, the oil giant publicly cast doubt on climate science,
and cautioned against any drastic move away from burning fossil
fuels, the main driver of climate change. Exxon also ran a public
relations program — including ads that ran in The New York Times —
emphasizing uncertainties in the scientific research on global
warming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/climate/exxon-mobil-global-warming
-climate-change.html
What's wrong with global warming?
And so what?
Greta stopped buying gas despite what Exxon told her.
That's because she produces enough gas on her own now to fill her car.
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