ExxonMobil's own climate science research, which began in the 1970s, accurately predicted the pace and severity ofThe study is the first to examine the performance of Exxon's internal climate modeling as well as its scientists' collaborations with outside researchers. It provides a quantitative assessment of how much the company's executives may have known about the risks of burning oil and gas and when.
The Exxon scientists' projections showed the world would warm at a rate of about 0.20°C per decade, which was in line with independent academic and government studies in the 1970s through the early 2000s. The internal documents had previously been analyzed for their text as part of a series of investigative journalism projects that have come to be known as #ExxonKnew, but the new work breaks new ground by assessing the accuracy of modeling projections shown in these papers.
Another coauthor is Stefan Rahmstorf, a well-known climate scientist and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
I worked in the EHS group there in the 90s and was part of the team collecting data on CO2 emissions by location. Note that it was all publicly reported in our annual reports at the time, and believe has continued since. I'm MIFFED at how this is somehow 'news'?!
Shouldn't that mean that the results are invalid because of the source?
Nonsense
Great that you use ‘global warming’ rather than the less accurate ‘climate change’ …after all the climate may ‘change for the better’ for parts of the world ?
'Profit over morality' has been the credo of the human race since recorded time
Yes it was a hot topic in the 70s. In 1965, Mercury Griffin’s first show featured Phyllis Diller about cooking without wasting food and another guest talked about preventing future ailments thru very mundane methods of exercise and chiropractic remedies. What happened?
Well, this must be true. If you can't trust anti-Exxon researchers and climate activists to be objective on this issue, who can you trust?