In 1982, Exxon predicted how much CO2 would be in the atmosphere by 2020
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https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-predicted-high-carbon-emissions-954e514b0aa9/
Measurements taken on May 3 at the world’s oldest measuring station, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, recorded “humanity’s first day ever with more than 415 parts per million
[ppm] CO2 in the air,” according to the United Nation’s climate change Twitter account. As of May 12, levels have remained steady at 415 ppm. Never before in human history has there
been so much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
According to an internal 1982 document from Exxon Research and Engineering Company — obtained by InsideClimate News as part of its 2015 investigation into what Exxon knew about
the impact of fossil fuels on climate change — the company was modeling out the concentration of carbon emissions several years into the future.
According to a graph displaying the “growth of atmospheric CO2 and average global temperature increase” over time, the company expected that, by 2020, carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere would reach roughly 400 to 420 ppm. This month’s measurement of 415 ppm is right within the expected curve Exxon projected under its “21st Century Study-High Growth
scenario.”
Not only did Exxon predict the rise in emissions, it also understood how severe the consequences would be. Despite this knowledge, the company chose not to change or adapt its
business model. Instead, it chose to invest heavily in disinformation campaigns that promoted climate science denial, failing to disclose its knowledge that the majority of the world’s
fossil fuel reserves must remain untapped in order to avert catastrophic climate change.
Ah, nothing like banking humanity's future to make some more dosh.
Wow who knew Exxon was in on the Chinese hoax smh this rabbit hole goes deep
I don't know what my future will bring me, and I'd like to think I'd be on the right side of the law until I'm six feet under, but if any of you ever see me running with ecoterrorists, here's why.
The person whom brought global warming to the world's attention is called "the father of petrotech" and we warned us about rampant fuckery in the 1950's. Greed and shortsightedness in the face of the obvious will very likely end our race in the next several centuries.
ya, especially as the laws of physics and biology look less and less likely to deliver us a means to travel to another solar system or even further inhabit our own. This planet is all we currently and for the next 100 years, have and we aren't doing anything to reign in corporate greed destroying it because we conditioned an entire generation to be subservient to the rich, convinced them that the rich are smart, are successful because they're rich, and never question authority.
We've known of the damage that human industrial output could do since the 1920s at least.
I am with Extinction Rebellion for the last months. Look into it.
lol so now is anything going to come of this? Are fossil fuel executives going to start being arrested en masse? Are those who were involved in these misinformation campaigns going to be publicly ousted for being traitors to the entire world just so they could line their pockets with a few extra bills of abstract value that is actually worthless outside of human civilization?
What's fucked up is this isn't the first time that its been brought to light that Exxon knew about the dangers of having excess Co2 in the atmosphere, and nothing was done back when that story broke a few years ago, and I don't anything is going to happen now, very pathetic.
This paper was brought to light years ago, so no
Gloritus to Republica. Heil Reaganus.
the problem is even though they can prove that exxon was absolutely evil, there's no way to convict them of anything since global warming is a global phenomina and even if you could get one judge to rule favorably it would be appealed to the notoriously business friendly conservative SCOTUS
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