The Climate Change story told by ice cores...

The timber industry is renewable. They harvest and replant. Not speaking for Rick, but deforestation in primarily the Amazon basin is to what I think he was referring.

 

True but that’s not really the ‘timber industry’ That’s clearing and using the land for other purposes which I agree is harmful

 

“Turn or burn!”
— Christian fundies of yesteryear —

“Turn or burn!”
— climate fanatics of today —

 

Nobody was saying that man has caused all climate change. Our activities are driving the warming that is occurring now though.

 

^ Is it driving the cooling too ? It’s been uncharacteristically cool this spring in Charlotte.

 

Given that Exxon did their research without any political motives and their predictions on what their products impacte would have on global climate in 1970s is more accurate than current “ so-called politically motivated” scientists. I would say the scientists in your video just found a natural version that took 1,000s of years of what we have accomplished in 100. We know that CO2 wiped out 93+% of life on earth during the great die off. There are likley 1000s of examples of natural episodes of temp increases and decreases over a billion years. I’ll bet they haven’t found an example that only took 100 years. Lastly; who the hell wants the output from fossil fuels in their brain and life support system. Most recent study found that diesel fumes negatively impact cognition with in minutes of exposure. The crap should be illegal in that note alone. It’s poison to humans.

I am sure that Exxon falsified data that would reduce the value of their assets by 100s of billions. Companies always do that cause they are so concerned about our health over their bottom line. Lol

Projections created internally by ExxonMobil starting in the late 1970s on the impact of fossil fuels on climate change were very accurate, even surpassing those of some academic and governmental scientists, according to an analysis published Thursday in Scienceby a team of Harvard-led researchers. Despite those forecasts, team leaders say, the multinational energy giant continued to sow doubt about the gathering crisis.

In “Assessing ExxonMobil’s Global Warming Projections,” researchers from Harvard and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research show for the first time the accuracy of previously unreported forecasts created by company scientists from 1977 through 2003. The Harvard team discovered that Exxon researchers created a series of remarkably reliable models and analyses projecting global warming from carbon dioxide emissions over the coming decades. Specifically, Exxon projected that fossil fuel emissions would lead to 0.20 degrees Celsius of global warming per decade, with a margin of error of 0.04 degrees — a trend that has been proven largely accurate.

 

This is fascinating. I didn’t know about this.

Exxon scientists predicted global warming with ‘shocking skill and accuracy,’ Harvard researchers say

They started predicting this with reasonable accuracy over 40 years ago. This should be game, set match on this whole silly debate.

 

stupid doesn't know when to concede. Cause they're stupid.

 

Yeah, the predictive models have been quite accurate in their predictions. A number of studies have been run validating old models with now observed data. They are largely very accurate without systematic biases.