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8/1/2016 Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models | InsideClimate News<br />

Flannery and Callegari were "very legitimate<br />

research guys," Hoffert said. "We talked about the<br />

politics of this stuff a lot, but we always separated<br />

the politics from the science."<br />

Climate 'Catastrophe' Foreseen<br />

By 1981, Exxon scientists were no longer<br />

questioning whether the buildup of CO2 would<br />

cause the world to heat up. Through their own<br />

studies and their participation in governmentsponsored<br />

conferences, company researchers had<br />

concluded that rising CO2 levels could create<br />

catastrophic impacts within the first half of the 21 s1:<br />

century if the burning of oil, gas and coal wasn't<br />

contained.<br />

CONCENTRATION OF ATMOSPHERIC COg AT MAUNA LOA<br />

OBSERVATORY, HAWAII<br />

A chart showing the increase in the growth rate of carbon dioxide<br />

measurements in Hawaii. Exxon scientists shared this chart in their<br />

documents discussing the company's climate modeling efforts.<br />

"When I arrived there, I was quite surprised to<br />

discover that people in the research lab were very<br />

aware of the increase in the growth rate of carbon<br />

dioxide measurements in Hawaii [at the Mauna Loa<br />

observatory]," Morrel H. Cohen, a senior scientist at<br />

Exxon Research from 1981 to 1996, said in a recent<br />

interview, "They were very aware of the greenhouse<br />

effect."<br />

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