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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Sun Jun 12, 2016 11:21 am ] |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Fri Jun 17, 2016 6:35 am ] |
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Big oil, like big tobacco, used what it knew to prevent the rest of us from learning the truth about the dangers of their product to us. https://www.smokeandfumes.org/moments/2 1946 THE SMOKE AND FUMES COMMITTEE From the very beginning of the American Petroleum Institute (API) in 1919, the oil industry recognized pollution issues, and the regulatory and liability risks they created, as an area of common concern and common interest. By the 1930s, API had focused particular attention to issues of air pollution. These issues came into sharp focus in the 1940s, as a rapidly growing Los Angeles grappled with the debilitating impacts of smog. In late 1946, as public concern and media scrutiny mounted, executives from the Western Oil and Gas Association met in Los Angeles to consider a response. They emerged with a plan—and a Committee. Comprised of executives from leading oil companies (including Union Oil, Standard Oil of California (both now part of Chevron), Esso (now ExxonMobil), and Shell), the newly-created Smoke and Fumes Committee would fund scientific research into smog and other air pollution issues and, significantly, use that research to inform and shape public opinion about environmental issues. The express goal of their collaboration was to use science and public skepticism to prevent environmental regulations they deemed hasty, costly, and unnecessary. Recognizing that the air pollution issues in Los Angeles could foreshadow the emergence of similar risks across the country, the Smoke and Fumes Committee was reorganized with a national mandate in 1952 within the American Petroleum Institute. It continued to operate, under a succession of names—but many of the same people—for the ensuing two decades. The Jones report documents that by 1958 at the latest, the Committee was funding research into the role of fossil fuels in rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. |
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| Author: | Milton Banana [ Sat Jun 18, 2016 10:42 am ] |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Sat Jun 18, 2016 11:14 am ] |
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| Author: | Milton Banana [ Sat Jun 25, 2016 3:10 pm ] |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:39 pm ] |
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| Author: | Milton Banana [ Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:46 pm ] |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Sun Jun 26, 2016 3:42 pm ] |
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| Author: | Milton Banana [ Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:11 am ] |
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Worth the time to read fence sitters. https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/201 ... y-2015.pdf |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:55 pm ] |
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| Author: | Milton Banana [ Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:58 pm ] |
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Fence sitters this video is worth the time. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpre ... lly-agree/ |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:41 pm ] |
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| Author: | Wayne Stollings [ Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:17 am ] |
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... s-agencies As the string of record-breaking global temperatures continues unabated, June 2016 marks the 14th consecutive month of record-breaking heat. According to two US agencies – Nasa and Noaa – June 2016 was 0.9C hotter than the average for the 20th century, and the hottest June in the record which goes back to 1880. It broke the previous record, set in 2015, by 0.02C. The 14-month streak of record-breaking temperatures was the longest in the 137-year record. And it has been 40 years since the world saw a June that was below the 20th century average. The string of record-breaking monthly temperatures began in April 2015, and was pushed along by a powerful El Niño, where a splurge of warm water spreads across the Pacific Ocean. But the effects of El Niño have receded, and the effects of global warming are clear, said Nasa’s Gavin Schmidt. |
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| Author: | Milton Banana [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:02 pm ] |
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| Author: | Milton Banana [ Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:03 am ] |
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