For context, the big oil firms did a series of internal studies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s which accurately anticipated the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming that would result, but went and hired the tobacco-cancer denial machine instead of looking for ways to move the world off fossil fuels.

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    10 months ago

    The ones in charge during that time deserve to be behind bars, putting their profits before the lives of future generations