{"id":33296,"date":"2018-04-10T10:20:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33296"},"modified":"2018-04-10T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:20:22","slug":"a-shell-report-predicted-how-devastating-climate-change-would-be-its-from-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33296","title":{"rendered":"A Shell report predicted how devastating climate change would be \u2014 it\u2019s from 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Shell report predicted how devastating climate change would be \u2014 it\u2019s from 1988<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A 1988 Royal Dutch Shell<\/a> report recently published online shows that the company knew decades ago what the impact of climate change<\/a> would be.<\/p>\n

The document was found by Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers and published online by the Climate Files,<\/a> a website sponsored by environmental advocacy group Climate Investigations Center.<\/p>\n

The report, titled \u201cThe Greenhouse Effect,\u201d said the effects of climate change would be notable by the late 20th Century and early 21st Century.<\/p>\n

It cautioned that by then it may be too late to reverse its effects.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time the global warming becomes detectable, it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilize the situation,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n

WATCH:\u00a0Elizabeth May says Canada \u2018behind\u2019 on climate change targets<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Written by\u00a0Shell\u2019s Greenhouse Effect Working Group, the report was based off a study conducted in 1986, and contains specific predictions on carbon emissions, political responses to climate change, and how society will be affected.<\/p>\n

Some of its predictions include rising sea levels, changing temperatures and human migration.<\/p>\n

More notably, the report reveals that Shell knew decades ago that fossil fuels, and the oil and gas industry<\/a> in particular, would play a major role in greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

It estimated that in 1981, 44 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions came from oil.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith fossil fuel combustion being a major source of CO2 in the atmosphere, a forward looking approach by the energy industry is clearly desirable,\u201d the report urged.<\/p>\n

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A Shell report predicted how devastating climate change would be \u2014 it\u2019s from 1988 Royal Dutch Shell gas station. \u00a0\u00a0Jonathan Nicholson\/NurPhoto via Getty Images A 1988 Royal Dutch Shell report recently published online shows that the company knew decades ago what the impact of climate change would be. The document was found by Dutch journalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19752,3193,141,19751,386,19754,2100,19753],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-19752","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-climate-change","tag-global-news","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-maham-abedi","tag-shell","tag-shell-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33297,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions\/33297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}