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Exxon’s CO2 Greenhouse Effect Report of 1982
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"Who could have predicted the wave of inflation that was unleashed? Or the climate crisis and its spectacular impact on our country this summer?" asked the president.
After a long discussion on pensions and the need for the French to work more, Mr. Macron only mentioned the climate crisis once; stating that the "Energy transition is a battle that we must win."
"'Who could have predicted the climate crisis?' Funny, that's one of my favorite sayings to mock politicians who are out of touch with reality," tweeted Gonéri Le Cozannet, a geologist and co-author of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.


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Actually someone figured it out in 1896. >

Who's that? Genuinely interested. >

They're referencing Svante Arrhenius. From this NASA page:  

In 1824, Joseph Fourier calculated that an Earth-sized planet, at our distance from the Sun, ought to be much colder. He suggested something in the atmosphere must be acting like an insulating blanket. In 1856, Eunice Foote discovered that blanket, showing that carbon dioxide and water vapor in Earth's atmosphere trap escaping infrared (heat) radiation.
In the 1860s, physicist John Tyndall recognized Earth's natural greenhouse effect and suggested that slight changes in the atmospheric composition could bring about climatic variations. In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.
In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth’s atmosphere to global warming. In 1941, Milutin Milankovic linked ice ages to Earth’s orbital characteristics. Gilbert Plass formulated the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change in 1956. >

Oh wow! We had more than 100 years to mitigate the climate crisis and somehow governments of today still do not have the urgency to change things >

Because that doesn't make money and don't you know I need all of my days to be non-red colored? >

Recycling
Circular economy
Solar panels
Wind mills
Clean tech
Lean tech
Green tech
etc etc…
It really is a shame there’s no business to make in climate change >

Scientists over 100yrs ago. >

Maybe he means WHO (World Health Organization) could have predicted it /s.
Because they provided a formal assessment on Climate Change back in 1996. >

Professor Schellenhuber of Germany founded the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research in 1992, and counseled the then German Minister of Environment directly. If you are very well informed, you might have heard her name before, a physicist with the Name Dr. Angela Merkel. >

I thought she was an organic chemist. >

Well, it's complicated.

Merkel worked and studied at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences
doctorate for her thesis on quantum chemistry >

goddamnit why can't we have a PHD physicist as our president >

Best I can do is Five Time Ultimate Smackdown Champion Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho >

At least he could listen and follow good advice when presented with evidence. >

This was actually my exact response when people compared trump to him. He actually did what I'd want leader to do - recognize when to defer to someone who's more knowledgeable on a topic and then heed their recommendations >

And let's not act like being able to twin fire m60s from the hip doesn't also distinguish the two as well. >

Exxon did research on the subject a while ago but they suppressed the studies and paid scientists to refute the research. 
It could have been predicted and avoided.