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Didn't we get confirmation of global warming only in the 2000s with the IPCC and all? Who would have trusted Exxon then? Who would trust it now? Would you have
by yostrovs 7y ago
Didn't we get confirmation of global warming only in the 2000s with the IPCC and all? Who would have trusted Exxon then? Who would trust it now? Would you have changed your ways had you read that Exxon report? Have you really changed your ways by now?
- zer0tonin 7y agoThe first IPCC report was released in 1990 and I don't think it left many ambiguity about the existence of a greenhouse effect and its cause.
- yostrovs 7y agoMore of them followed to confirm the findings. Satellites were launched, degrees issued to thousands of new scientists to confirm this. Would you have trusted Exxon in the 1980s?
- saalweachter 7y agoYou don't think (one of) the largest oil companies in the world coming out and saying "we've got to stop using so much oil" would be convincing?
- yostrovs 7y agoThey're evil. Nothing they do is convincing. Many people would think the reality is opposite of what Exxon claims. Do you believe Exxon now?
- smt1 7y agoFrom the first IPCC reports in 1990, to today, the IPCC's prognostications about the future became more and more clairvoyant. Yes, it wasn't till the early 2000s that there was enough observed multiple sources of information about man-made climate change that they could say that with 90% (later 99%) certainty, but they made clear the future risk. If you look at the early IPCC reports, they made it clear that CO2 was a greenhouse gas, but at least in the United States, the fossil fuel industry fought tooth and nail and spent huge amounts of money to fight a regulatory classification of it as such. It wasn't until 2009 that was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVz67cwmxTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVz67cwmxTM