Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better. Research shows that company modeled and predicted global warming with ‘shocking skill and accuracy’ starting in the 1970sProjections created internally by ExxonMobil starting in the late 1970s on the impact of fossil fuels on climate change were very accurate, even surpassing those of some academic and governmental scientists, according to an analysis published Thursday in Science by a team of Harvard-led researchers. Despite those forecasts, team leaders say, the multinational energy giant continued to sow doubt about the gathering crisis.In “Assessing ExxonMobil’s Global Warming Projections,” researchers from Harvard and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research show for the first time the accuracy of previously unreported forecasts created by company scientists from 1977 through 2003. The Harvard team discovered that Exxon researchers created a series of remarkably reliable models and analyses projecting global warming from carbon dioxide emissions over the coming decades. Specifically, Exxon projected that fossil fuel emissions would lead to 0.20 degrees Celsius of global warming per decade, with a margin of error of 0.04 degrees — a trend that has been proven largely accurate.“This paper is the first ever systematic assessment of a fossil fuel company’s climate projections, the first time we’ve been able to put a number on what they knew,” said Geoffrey Supran, lead author and former research fellow in the History of Science at Harvard. “What we found is that between 1977 and 2003, excellent scientists within Exxon modeled and predicted global warming with, frankly, shocking skill and accuracy only for the company to then spend the next couple of decades denying that very climate science.”https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/
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>>520499064https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/al_gore_trips_on_artic_ice_mis.html>tldr: gore said northern sea ice would be 75% gone by 2016. The scientist he misquoted gave a more conservative estimate that it would be 80% gone by 2020. Both were completely wrong
>>520499064The solution to climate change is an indigenous European ethnoworld. Anyone who disputes that is a climate change denier.
The first step to solving climate change is to dejeet the planet.
