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Shell,Exxon Scientists Warned about global warming 30 yrs ago,kept secret like cigs & cancer
| The records are expected to aid global efforts to hold the industry to account for its contributions to global warming.
One such document, a confidential 1988 report entitled "The Greenhouse Effect," outlines a comprehensive study of climate science and the projected impact of fossil fuels, and reveals that the company secretly had been commissioning such analyses since at least 1981.
| The report acknowledges the central role that fossil fuels—especially oil—play in increasing CO2 emissions that drive global warming.
"Although CO2 is emitted to the atmosphere through several natural processes," the report states, "the main cause of increasing CO2 concentrations is considered to be fossil fuel burning."
| This latest confirmation that Shell, for more than three decades, has been privately aware of its products' contributions to the climate crisis but opted to publicly promote skepticism about climate science mirrored similar findings about ExxonMobil in 2015.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/05/shell-knew-too-new-docs-show-oil-giants-scientists-secretly-warned-about-climate
| Real scientists work at public universities and don't keep their research results secret.
Such a behaviour should have consequences.
| >>218433
They do keep their research results private though when they clash with political correctness. They will be blacklisted otherwise.
| >>3531a5
Humans are murderers how do you yhink we ended on top of the food chain. We would hsve a really shitty life otherwise
| >>219077
Even thought there is some truth in what you wrote it sounds pretty stupid to me regarding the incrasing technological overkill potential of mankind. We already had two totally unneccessary World Wars, and I don't want a third one just because some douchebags like you believe shit must go on because it is somehow "supposed to be so". I don't believe in your god.
| >>219055 you know that majority of technology you use is based on secret military research during WW2/Cold War right?
| >>225929
Thats a modern myth. In fact it's the other way arround: military researchers just made use of civil research from public universities.
Also during cold war much of the technological and social advance in the west was based on the idea of a competition with the udssr to make capitalism more attractive and less questionable for the masses facing the idea of socialism/communism as a serious threat to the status quo of capitalists. The military was (and still is) a parasite.
| >>225929
I now what I'm talking about, because I worked at military testing grounds for 5 years. They are just sad copycats from civil technology, putting armor around it and declare it as "their new development". This people have no Idea about what is going on. Most of them are pretty naive, especially regarding IT. The military is a major threat to mankind, and it's in its nature to ignore or not understand it by its members to avoid bad conscience.
| >inhaling smoke makes you sick
>keeping secret
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| Shell's scientists warned the oil giant about the threat that fossil fuel emissions pose to the planet as early as the 1980s, according to a trove of documents obtained by a Dutch journalist and published Thursday at Climate Files.
Environmental advocates say the documents—which bolster an investigative report published last year—demonstrate the "stunning" immorality of oil and gas companies.