Posted on 01/15/2023 3:45:14 PM PST by algore
The oil giant Exxon privately “predicted global warming correctly and skilfully” only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found.
A trove of internal documents and research papers has previously established that Exxon knew of the dangers of global heating from at least the 1970s, with other oil industry bodies knowing of the risk even earlier, from around the 1950s. They forcefully and successfully mobilized against the science to stymie any action to reduce fossil fuel use.
A new study, however, has made clear that Exxon’s scientists were uncannily accurate in their projections from the 1970s onwards, predicting an upward curve of global temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions that is close to matching what actually occurred as the world heated up at a pace not seen in millions of years.
Exxon scientists predicted there would be global heating of about 0.2C a decade due to the emissions of planet-heating gases from the burning of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. The new analysis, published in Science, finds that Exxon’s science was highly adept and the “projections were also consistent with, and at least as skillful as, those of independent academic and government models”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
So... when the ice melts, causing ocean and thus global cooling, as well as greater oceanic CO2 absorption, the lefties will claim victory for lower CO2 readings due to all the windmills and solar panels which were built at the expense of African and European children, the one set dying to pay for EVs and solar panels, the other dying for lack of coal power plants during the drastic cooling caused by glacial melt... And, all those EVs will get stuck w/ dead batteries during global ice storms.
Did I get that right?
“Science” these days is choosing a narrative and then cherry-picking data to support it.
That is exactly how the witch-doctors did it for centuries!
Looks like prof Z’s link has been taken down. She was excellent, hope it is still out there somewhere.
The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of food.
Who needs food?
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