Fossil Fuels Create Global Warming & Climate Change Ep4A
Channel: Eggshell World
Date: 03/08/2019

Climate Change, Global Warming & serious environmental damage on a global scale caused by Fossil Fuel combustion predicted by Big Oil Climate Scientists in1968.

Climate Scientists cautioned that rising levels of carbon dioxide would likely result in rising global temperatures & that, if temperatures increased significantly, the result could be melting ice caps, rising sea levels, warming oceans, & serious environmental damage on a global scale.

The 1968 report from The Stanford Research Institute stated, “[s]ignificant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year 2000 & these could bring about climatic changes.”

The report concluded, that past & present studies of carbon dioxide are detailed & seem to explain adequately the present state of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

What is lacking is an application of these atmospheric carbon dioxide data to air pollution technology & work toward systems in which carbon dioxide emissions would be brought under control.

Big Oil asked The Stanford Research Institute to review their findings on carbon dioxide more extensively in a Supplemental Report submitted in 1969.

This supplement repeated & further substantiated most of the core conclusions of the prior report, including its recognition that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide were steadily increasing; 90% of this increase could be attributed to fossil fuel combustion; & continued use of fossil fuels would inevitably & inexorably result in greater carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

Big Oil Climate Scientists, Robinson & Robbins, estimated that the projected growth in fossil fuel use would push atmospheric carbon dioxide to 370 ppm [parts per million] by the year 2000 & increase in carbon dioxide to 370 ppm [parts per million] would increase global temperatures by 0.5 degrees Celsius, 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2000.

This estimate proved remarkably accurate.

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Presents

Smoke & Fumes Episode 4A of The Evidentiary Basis for Accountability

From

Smoke & Fumes: The Legal & Evidentiary Basis for Holding Big Oil Accountable for the Climate Crisis by The Center for International Environmental Law is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

PART 2
The Evidentiary Basis for Accountability 
Notice, Opportunity, & Failure to Act

“This report was written to answer the questions: What did the fossil fuel companies know? When did they know it? What did they do about it? For what can they be held legally & morally responsible?”

© 2017 Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

About CIEL 
Founded in 1989, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights, & ensure a just & sustainable society. CIEL is dedicated to advocacy in the global public interest through legal counsel, policy research, analysis, education, training, & capacity building.

See more episodes here:
Fossil Fuels Create Global Warming & Climate Change Ep1
https://youtu.be/XDmGzLPaJRw

Fossil Fuels Create Global Warming & Climate Change Ep2
https://youtu.be/2emecMS47UE

Fossil Fuels Create Global Warming & Climate Change Ep3
https://youtu.be/pu9MTwO_e2I

Get the full report here:
https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Smoke-Fumes-FINAL.pdf

Smoke & Fumes: The Legal & Evidentiary Basis for Holding Big Oil Accountable for the Climate Crisis presents a comprehensive synthesis of the available evidence on what the oil industry knew about climate science, when they knew it, & what they did with the information.

It combines that synthesis with an update on the latest developments in accountability research & science, which have dramatically improved our ability to identify the impacts of climate change on individuals & communities, the corporate actors that contributed to those impacts, & the nature of their contributions.

The report presents this evidence in the context of the core elements of legal responsibility in tort & human rights law. 

It concludes that oil industry actors had early knowledge of climate risks & important opportunities to act on those risks, but repeatedly failed to do so.

Those failures give raise to potential legal responsibilities under an array of legal theories.

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