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"As fossil fuel executives join the rest of us currently choking on the ash of
old growth forests being consumed in the apocalyptic conflagrations directly
linked to their actions, we must never forget: THEY KNEW.
THEY KNEW in 1959, when famed physicist Edward Teller told a symposium of
petroleum industry executives of the coming catastrophe:
“Whenever you burn conventional fuel,” Teller explained, “you create carbon
dioxide. … Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect.” If
the world kept using fossil fuels, the ice caps would begin to melt, raising
sea levels. Eventually, “all the coastal cities would be covered,” he
warned.
THEY KNEW in 1968, when a report commissioned by the American Petroleum
Institute concluded:
Significant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year
2000, and these could bring about climatic changes. [...] there seems to be
no doubt that the potential damage to our environment could be severe. [...]
pollutants which we generally ignore because they have little local effect,
CO₂ and submicron particles, may be the cause of serious world-wide
environmental changes.
THEY KNEW in 1977 and 1978 when Exxon senior scientist Jack Black informed
executives:
“In 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.” ... A year later
he warned Exxon that doubling CO₂ gases in the atmosphere would increase
average global temperatures by two or three degrees—a number that is
consistent with the scientific consensus today. He continued to warn that
“present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to 10 years
before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies
might become critical.”"
Via Kevin O'Brien.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
