Exxon knew there would be global warming, but they kept it a secret. Did they understand what the implications were – that global warming from burning fossil fuels could cause most inhabited areas to become unliveable? But when they predicted in the 1970s, they didn’t know that the growth in fossil fuels use would be much greater in the 21st century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A quote from a comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“”What refutes science:
\u2022 Better science
Do you have better science? Do the oil companies?\u00a0 Because I would like to see what you’ve got, I’ve seen what they have got.
Exxon predicted in the 70’s a +0.2\u00b0C per decade due to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2023\/01\/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change\/””<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Exxon knew there would be global warming, but they kept it a secret. Did they understand what the implications were – that global warming from burning fossil fuels could cause most inhabited areas to become unliveable? But when they predicted in the 1970s, they didn’t know that the growth in fossil fuels use would be <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,720,466,2116,2068,2713,2174,2121,2598,2176,1106,722,163,2495,1977,348],"tags":[3377,485,1164,1588],"class_list":["post-19929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-documents-literature","category-business","category-climate-change","category-climate-change-denial","category-disinformation","category-ghg-greenhouse-gas","category-global-warming","category-greenhouse-gases","category-greenwashing","category-heat-wave","category-meteorology-weather","category-newsmedia","category-politics","category-pseudoscience","category-save-the-earth","category-websites","tag-analysis","tag-climate-change","tag-exxon","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19930,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929\/revisions\/19930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}