Exxon knew just how much fossil fuels could warm the planet as early as the 1970s, study says - The Boston Globe

The new report from Harvard University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in the journal Science on Thursday, marks the first quantitative review of Exxon’s climate science from the past four and a half decades. The findings show that Exxon did not merely have a vague idea that using its products would heat the planet; rather, it had the very specific knowledge that fossil fuel burning would lead to about 0.20 degrees Celsius of global warming per decade, plus or minus 0.04 degrees. Scientists at Exxon predicted...