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throw0101a • today at 4:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

An article from 2023, "Exxon Made 'Breathtakingly' Accurate Climate Predictions in 1970s and ’80s":

* https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/01/revealed-exx...

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/exxon-mobil-predicted-global...

From 2015, "Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years"

* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-cl...

Turns out Exxon's climate science is pretty good:

* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

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sampo • today at 6:10 PM

> "Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says

Of course they new. Even if we exclude what Joseph Fourier (in 1824) [1] and Svante Arrhenius (in 1896) [2] wrote about carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect, after [3] in 1967 and [4] in 1979, everybody who followed this branch of science, knew.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier#Discovery_of_th...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_ef...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Equilibrium_of_the_Atm...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charney_Report