Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak
The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called ‘Keeling curve’ that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels.
A coalition of oil and car manufacturing interests provided $13,814 (about $158,000 in today’s money) in December 1954 to fund Keeling’s earliest work in measuring CO2 levels across the western US, the documents reveal.
Keeling would go on to establish the continuous measurement of global CO2 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. This ‘Keeling curve’ has tracked the steady increase of the atmospheric carbon that drives the climate crisis and has been hailed as one of the most important scientific works of modern times.
When it was in the public debate, we knew it was man made. The fossil fuel industry did a lot of PR/propaganda to shift public opinion and push false narratives like we didn't know. Despite these same companies being the first to collect data and models on the very thing they were denying.
So it's time for them to voluntarily cough up to fix the problem by coming to an industry agreement with national governments on what portion of assets of all companies involved must be contributed to efforts to fix the problem.
Or else it's time without them for governments to seize assets To be used to fix the problem through direct capture and mitigation effort And by funding jobs and industries that are Furthering green renewable safe energy and infrastructure.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, But America has an upward mobility crisis right now. I don't care how many people who are Disgustingly rich become just a little bit rich in the process. Lifting up millions of americans and fixing our self-destructive infrastructure Is an obvious solution.
You say all that as if the governments aren't owned by and run for the disgustingly rich, which is why reform isn't a solution (there is no legislating climate change away) but rather the whole system needs abolishing.
Let's get the names of the c level execs for these companies from 1950-1990 and reference the 23&me biomap.
What we do with the names and addresses of their offspring is not for me to decide, but if their lies led their offspring to wealth it would be quite fair to remove it before SHTF.
It's like having someone shoot a comically oversized cannon with mostly coal and gasoline that would produce a big giant black cloud to shoot a tiny metal ball .... and then everyone standing around asking where the shot was fired from.
It's also important to vote in all the down-ballot races. Vote in the primary of the party likely to win the general election where you are. Vote in the general election too.
The real problem is that there is no one we can vote for that can make a difference.
One half of the politicians want to continue using fossil fuels.
And the other half wants to do mostly virtue signalling with policies that look good on paper, but won't actually solve the problem.
I guess the second group is less bad, but politics is unlikely to save the climate.
Sorry, don't have a solution. We could have solved it by continuing to deploy and develop nuclear after Chernobyl, but by now it seems like 2 or 3 degrees of warming is inevitable.