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.
In Go Nagai’s Devilman, climate change is an important plot point. That story was written in 1972. We’ve known.
Did not expect a direct Devilman reference on Lemmy. Our population may be small but damn do our niches run deep.
I gotta get it in where i can :)
I’m still sad that plot point got dropped from Crybaby.
They know about climate change now, they still perpetrating it
there has never been any doubt about climate science, and anyone who suggested there was is a lying sack of shit
There was a period where we weren’t sure if it was a natural change or man made. It’s wasn’t a long period, but there was definitely initial doubt.
Let’s get the names of the c level execs for these companies from 1950-1990 and reference the 23&me biomap.
What we do with the names and addresses of their offspring is not for me to decide, but if their lies led their offspring to wealth it would be quite fair to remove it before SHTF.
Lol … Smoking gun
It’s like having someone shoot a comically oversized cannon with mostly coal and gasoline that would produce a big giant black cloud to shoot a tiny metal ball … and then everyone standing around asking where the shot was fired from.
