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Were the scientist hired by Exxon in the 70’s also participating in this political scheme? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-

• fearai 7y ago
  Yes. Thank you for providing more evidence that scienists are bought for political gain. And you want "policy" based on scientists? lol
  • jordanbeiber 7y ago
    Well the scientist gave word, and the Exxon board covered it up, so... yes please! Preferably policy is made based on facts and common sense. If you’ve ever worked a reasonably complex system I’m sure you’ll agree that minuscule changes or additions can have unforeseen and sometimes devastating consequences. In large systems of complexity you usually end up with really weird, cascading issues. Things triggering other things, hitting edges etc. I don’t think I ever worked anything remotely as complex a system as the earth (or... have I?), but looking at the graphs of co2 since the beginning of industrialization it’s quite clear we are making massive changes to a system that have had many thousands of years to get in tune. Couple this with the fact that almost all experts in related fields seem to agree that the changes we’re seeing will be destructive and also difficult to mitigate you have something that just simply makes sense. It would be utterly foolish not to make policy of it.