Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Exxon's 1982 Projections for CO2, Temperature Were Spot-on
This isn't new, but it bears highlighting yet again: an article on ThinkProgress gives this chart from an Internal Exxon document on the "CO2 Greenhouse Effect: A Technical Review" from 1982. It was obtained by InsideClimate News in 2015. Exxon's projections for the present were right on the nose:
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Exxon knew... if only we'd listened. ;P
And if only they hadn't kept it secret.
Of course, there was already plenty of science on the topic we should have listened to. I guess. It might have seemed like science fiction at the time. But it wasn't. Maybe we should worry more about science fiction, to the extent it just extrapolates into the future....
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