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this is what the oil industry in USA had to say about CO2 in 1980:

   CLIMATE MODELING - CONCLUSIONS

   LIKELY IMPACTS

   1C RISE (2005) : BARELY NOTICEABLE

   2.5C RISE (2038) : MAJOR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES, STRONG REGIONAL DEPENDENCE

   5C RISE (2067) : GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS

https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/documents/...

just saying

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On the last page. Maybe they should have led with this:

A 2.5C RISE BRINGS WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH TO A HALT CA. 2025.

Suppose the US oil industry had not engaged in science denial then. Does this somehow mean that the rest of the world's emissions would now be at the level they need to be?

Assuming that this document is authentic and the projections are valid, how are you personally dealing with this information?

And they did shit all about it

That's not quite fair, they funded the climate denial movement.

From the report:

PRESENT DAY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE IMPACT DEPENDS STRONGLY ON CHOICE OF A FUTURE DISCOUNTING FACTOR.

I guess we know what sort of discounting factor they applied.

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