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Oil companies knew about climate change in the _1980s_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMo

• scruple 5y ago
  I suspect they knew well before the 1980s. [0][1] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg [1]: https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/447/unchained-goddess/ https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/447/unchained-goddess/
• pier25 5y ago
  Climate change was well known before that. There's actually a report to Lyndon Johnson in 1965 about the dangers of climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...