{"id":12362,"date":"2015-09-17T06:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12362"},"modified":"2015-09-17T06:38:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:38:23","slug":"exxons-own-research-confirmed-the-role-of-fossil-fuels-in-global-warming-decades-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12362","title":{"rendered":"Exxon\u2019s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_main_image\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/eartotheground\/item\/exxons_own_research_confirmed_the_role_of_fossil_fuels_in_global_warming_de\" target=\"_blank\">Exxon\u2019s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/eartothegrounduploads\/exxon590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article_main_imagecaptionsimple\" align=\"right\"><small><a title=\"Minale Tattersfield\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/minaletattersfield\/8427589448\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minale Tattersfield<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a title=\"CC BY 2.0\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oil giant Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research in the 1970s, and then, without disclosing the findings of its scientists, worked to manufacture doubt about the scientific consensus of its own research.<\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking investigation shows how the company\u2019s top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from global warming, then led efforts to block solutions.<\/p>\n<p><b>InsideClimate News<\/b>\u00a0explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a meeting in Exxon Corporation\u2019s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world\u2019s use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first place, there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels,\u201d Black told Exxon\u2019s Management Committee, according to a written version he recorded later.<\/p>\n<p>It was July 1977 when Exxon\u2019s leaders received this blunt assessment, well before most of the world had heard of the looming climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, Black, a top technical expert in Exxon\u2019s Research &amp; Engineering division, took an updated version of his presentation to a broader audience. He warned Exxon scientists and managers that independent researchers estimated a doubling of the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere would increase average global temperatures by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (4 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit), and as much as 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) at the poles.\u00a0 Rainfall might get heavier in some regions, and other places might turn to desert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome countries would benefit but others would have their agricultural output reduced or destroyed,\u201d Black said, in the written summary of his 1978 talk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exxon\u2019s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago Minale Tattersfield\u00a0\/\u00a0CC BY 2.0 Oil giant Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research in the 1970s, and then, without disclosing the findings of its scientists, worked to manufacture doubt about the scientific consensus of its own research. 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