‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak
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.
The fossil fuel interests backed a group, known as the Air Pollution Foundation, that issued funding to Keeling to measure CO2 alongside a related effort to research the smog that regularly blighted Los Angeles at the time. This is earlier than any previously known climate research funded by oil companies.
every single one of these bastards should face the wall. they fucked around - and continue to fuck around with our species literal ability to continue.
This says they funded this research
yup, it's called paid to kill - fund research and then bury the results.
I believe I saw once an article from the industrial revolution that pollution was having an effect on climate.
That's the one, so it was a bit after the industrial revolution.
imagine knowing your industry will fuck up the planet for 70 YEARS and not investing a single penny into renewable energies. you could've owned a lot of the future energy production, but you goofed it.
This highlights that even starting the conversation of something that can work against you still allows you to have some control over the narrative, in this case over 70 years and going strong have they been steering this narrative!
So sad that they continue to work against the hope of preserving our planet and no one will stop them.
And they still won't be punished because they own all the regulatory bodies and the courts.