Re: Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Finds

[Earl Weber]

On 12 Jan 2023, Klaus Schadenfreude
<klaus.schadenfreude.löschen.@gmail.com> posted some
news:qis0sh5oibi54hq80...@4ax.com:

> On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:46:35 -0800 (PST), bigdog
><geowri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 2:20:37 PM UTC-5, AlleyCat wrote:
>>> Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made
>>> remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil
>>> fuels would warm the planet.
>>>
>>> By Hiroko Tabuchi
>>> Jan. 12, 2023, 2:00 p.m. ET
>>>
>>> In the late 1970s, scientists at Exxon fitted one of the company’s
>>> supertankers with state-of-the-art equipment to measure carbon
>>> dioxide in the ocean and in the air, an early example of substantial
>>> research the oil giant conducted into the science of climate change.
>>>
>>> A new study published Thursday in the journal Science found that
>>> over the next decades, Exxon’s scientists made remarkably accurate
>>> projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the
>>> planet. Their projections were as accurate, and sometimes even more
>>> so, as those of independent academic and government models.
>>>
>>> Yet for years, the oil giant publicly cast doubt on climate science,
>>> and cautioned against any drastic move away from burning fossil
>>> fuels, the main driver of climate change. Exxon also ran a public
>>> relations program — including ads that ran in The New York Times —
>>> emphasizing uncertainties in the scientific research on global
>>> warming.
>>>
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/climate/exxon-mobil-global-warming
>>> -climate-change.html
>>
>>What's wrong with global warming?
>
> And so what?
>
> Greta stopped buying gas despite what Exxon told her.

That's because she produces enough gas on her own now to fill her car.