Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
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Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#2OP do you have a connection to the blog? I noticed your submission history favors it.
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#3OP do you have a connection to the blog? I noticed your submission history favors it.
Comment history has the answer for whatever that’s worth.
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#4OP do you have a connection to the blog? I noticed your submission history favors it.
Seems like they work on it. Or used to.
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#5Not news of course, but worth restating. Credulous 'scepticism' about the fundamentals of the climate collapse threat has been largely driven by corporate propaganda campaigns. Those campaigns were themselves constructed by people who weren't 'sceptics' -- they believed AGM was happening -- but considered their short-term profitability more important. Climate collapse 'sceptics' were nearly all gulls.
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#6There are articles that are over 100 years old that point out fossil fuels cause climate change. Surely they knew far earlier than 1978?
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#7Having now been in China for several weeks this beating the drum trying to make americans feel guilty (and give power over to other people) is absolutely absurd. You want to control pollution the first places to start are china and india. The US in comparison produces negligible impact.
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#8OP do you have a connection to the blog? I noticed your submission history favors it.
Yep, I'm the author + developer -- hope there isn't a problem with posting your own content. I think there's value in it!
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#9Having now been in China for several weeks this beating the drum trying to make americans feel guilty (and give power over to other people) is absolutely absurd. You want to control pollution the first places to start are china and india. The US in comparison produces negligible impact.
US still accounts for double digit percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions.. so it's not a non-trivial amount
Re: Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
#10Having now been in China for several weeks this beating the drum trying to make americans feel guilty (and give power over to other people) is absolutely absurd. You want to control pollution the first places to start are china and india. The US in comparison produces negligible impact.
It’s my understanding that America has contributed to the majority of total emissions since fossil fuel use began. I’ve heard that recently China has eclipsed us in annual emissions, but we still emit a lot of CO2 (and probably the most per capita). We have the power to develop new technologies and were the ones who benefitted from the majority of historical carbon emissions. With that information it seems to me justified to push Americans to act on climate change.