ExxonMobil also closed this year the NJ based prolific Corporate Strategic Research center that among many chemical process related breakthroughs, identified the CO2 emissions risks (way before academia), and invented the lithium battery.
CO2 emissions risks were already being discussed in the 1800s.
Furthermore, Big Oil notoriously suppressed any hint of their internal climate change models from being published and hired the same marketing firms that Big Tobacco employed.
It really pains me that the people involved in this cover-up likely led lives of absurd luxury rather than seeing the meanest hint of justice for what they did.
People talk about climate change as though we're all equally responsible but this is false, there may be few saints on this subject but there's certainly degrees of sinner and these people are at the very highest level of blame in my opinion. How much of the world will be uninhabitable by the end of the century due to their lies delaying timely climate action?
There's a reason the wealthiest are building bunkers on private islands. The populace by-at-large remains blissfully unaware of the current consequences of climate change or what is almost certainly coming in the next several decades - when a critical mass realizes what has happened, the brother of mario kind of violence we witnessed this year will probably become commonplace. I don't see it playing out any other way, the level of current climate denial and gaslighting (even among supposed climate activists) cannot avoid reality forever.
Do you know of any literature that shows it being discussed in earnest before ~1905, which is when the newspaper article about it I've read was published?
