ExxonMobil: Oil Giant Predicted Climate Change in 1970s - Scientists

BBCX ^ | 1/12 | Georgina Rannard

[nickcarraway]

One of the world's largest oil companies accurately forecast how climate change would cause global temperature to rise as long ago as the 1970s, researchers claim.

ExxonMobil's private research predicted how burning fossil fuels would warm the planet but the company publicly denied the link, they suggest.

The academics analysed data in the company's internal documents.

ExxonMobil denied the allegations.

"This issue has come up several times in recent years and, in each case, our answer is the same: those who talk about how "Exxon Knew" are wrong in their conclusions," the company told BBC News.

[Seruzawa]

Setting up tobacco style looting... Er I mean Court Cases.

[alternatives?]

Some were predicting an ice age. Only God knows. God is also in control.

[Prince of Space]

I was in college in the mid 70s and I remember the news magazine headlines declaring the “Coming Ice Age.” Nobody was talking about the planet heating up at that time. The leftists weren’t in charge so their plan to shut down the global economy wouldn’t have gone anywhere anyway. Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case.

[crusty old prospector]

Bingo. Climate reparations.

[wjcsux]

The shakedown of the energy companies is getting started.

[WKUHilltopper]

This bull shit has gone back longer than that.

[WKUHilltopper]

Yeah, same here.

[Who is John Galt?]

[SpaceBar]

They conflate conjecture with prediction. Also one ‘study’ of no doubt tens of thousands of research areas funded by ExMo over the years isn’t exactly an ‘aha!’ moment. There’s probably a study buried in an archival warehouse that says the exact opposite.

[hinckley buzzard]

This has been in court and thrown out of court more than once already. Just media greenies stirring cold ashes.

[TigersEye]

Only going back to the 1970s? Why not go back to the 1870s for climate change predictions?

• January 10, 1871: Pall Mall Gazette – “Imaginary Change of Climate”
  “…a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-
  instructed meteorologists…We have often noticed…every season is sure to be
  ‘extraordinary,’ almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest
  or hottest ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to
  exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.”

• 1902: Los Angeles Times
  Glaciers are undergoing ‘their final annihilation’ due to warming.

• 1923: Chicago Tribune (Front page)
  “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada”

• May 15, 1932: New York Times (Special supplement May)
  Continuing end of the last ice age, not human activity cause of warming trend.
  Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents

• May 23, 1969: New York Times
  “Worrying About a New Ice Age.”

• April 22, 1970 (Lenin’s birthday): First Earth Day event presentation
  George Wald, Harvard Biologist –
  “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against
  problems facing mankind.”

• 1970’s: Science, Science Digest, Newsweek, etc.
  Global cooling – ice age.

• June 24, 1974: Time
  “Another Ice Age?”

• June 30, 1989: San Jose Mercury News
  Noel Brown, senior UN environment official –
  Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if
  global warming is not reversed by 2000.

• 1997:
  U.S. Senate voted 95-0 that the U.S. should not sign on to the Kyoto protocols.

• 2006:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] –
  10 years to solve the global-warming problem.

• 2007:
  Chief of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) –
  “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late.”

• December 2008:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] tells German audience –
  “…the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”

• January 19, 2009:
  James Hansen, [alleged] climate expert and past head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies –
  President Obama has only four years to save the Earth.

• December 2009:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] @ Copenhagen UN climate summit –
  75% chance Arctic Ocean ice-free in several years.

• November 10, 2013: Mother Jones article –
  “Climate deniers like to point to the so-called global warming ‘hiatus’ [17 years without warming].”
  Note: In the article below, the IPCC omits this fact!

• April 13, 2014:USA Today
  (IPCC states), “…global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have accelerated to unprecedented levels…”

But, here is reality!!

Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year July 28, 2014

Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling Jun 25, 2014

[cp124]

Cold or hot climate change? The good old 70s, when the climate was static.

[eyeamok]

In the 70’s we were heading into an Ice Age surely to kill us all, and they told us it was from the pollution from our cars...

[nascarnation]

Leaded gas used to smell pretty good, as I recall...

[Codeflier]

The leftist were in charge then. However, they were concentrated on the destruction of the.nuclear family and the complete takeover of education at that time.

[Mr. Lucky]

Not that facts matter to these so called scientists. But ExxonMobil didn’t exist in the 1970’s.

[Texas resident]

In the 70’s, there was Enco that became Exxon in the 80’s.
Mobil was a separate company.

My dad worked for Standard Oil, Enco, Exxon then Exxon/Mobil.

[PIF]

ExxonMobil: Oil Giant Predicted Climate Change in 1970s in an Effort to Drive Oil Prices Higher - Scientists.

[dennisw]

Balderdash!