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‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[–] gibmiser 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And one country can't solve the issue. We all need to work together...which will never happen

[–] kaffiene 3 points 8 months ago

Not with that attitude

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don’t think you’re gonna hurt anything by acting on climate change without a global consensus. I do think the effect COVID had on warming showed pretty clearly how much is possible when even a few countries just take indirect action.