"In 1980, the task force invited a scientist from Stanford University, John Laurmann, to brief them on the state of climate science. Today, we have a copy of Laurmann’s presentation, which warned that if fossil fuels continued to be used, global warming would be “barely noticeable” by 2005, but by the 2060s would have “globally catastrophic effects.” That same year, the American Petroleum Institute called on governments to triple coal production worldwide, insisting there would be no negative consequences despite what it knew internally."
"Despite what it KNEW internally"
That's the whole basis of the article folks. Except that nobody knew anything. Tens of thousands of scientists, hundreds of reports, and people today are trying to cherry pick speeches and reports to rewrite history and say oil has always been bad.
How many scientists have speeches saying CO2 was not a big deal, or not an issue?
Doesn't matter. If you can find a single scientist back then yelling into the ether, you can bludgeon to death the oil industry in the here and now.
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"Despite what it KNEW internally"
That's the whole basis of the article folks. Except that nobody knew anything. Tens of thousands of scientists, hundreds of reports, and people today are trying to cherry pick speeches and reports to rewrite history and say oil has always been bad.
How many scientists have speeches saying CO2 was not a big deal, or not an issue?
Doesn't matter. If you can find a single scientist back then yelling into the ether, you can bludgeon to death the oil industry in the here and now.
[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2827786-1970-H-R-Hol...