“The contrived sense of accomplishment in history matching is spurious correlation for an infinitesimally small period of time. Using Exxon’s internal analysis of CO2 climate forcing is little more than a propaganda tool.”
“Exxon Knew” is a political-lawyer campaign focusing on certain internal company documents to make a case that the oil major knew that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were a future threat to human betterment.
Smoking gun? Hardly.
A half century later, the IPCC is still trying to update and figure out physical climate science. Exxon did not do a study on the benefits of CO2 or the offset of sulfur dioxide emissions. The concern way back then was Global Cooling, Peak Oil, and Peak Gas. And as the company knew, fossil fuels had no viable substitute, as in wind and solar.…
Some interesting facts on CO2. The trace gas of life is very beneficial. CO2 is greening the earth and feeding the hungry. CO2 has not been proven to ‘drive’ climate change except as conveyed by the models which remain erroneous and incomplete. We are near the lowest level of CO2 over earth history. The secondary feedback heating effect of CO2 is limited by the IR logarithmic forcing law and is nearly saturated at current levels. The earth never had runaway heating even at 10x-20x current levels of CO2. Interesting that most plants evolved at levels averaging near 1200 ppm or roughly 3x current levels.
Desert greening
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2013/deserts-greening-from-rising-co2
Plant fertilizer higher than expected
CO2 reducing plant water needs
CO2 sink
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.16866
Greening observed by NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
NASA – greening mitigates warming
…https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates-surface-warming