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A 1968 study by the Stanford Research Institute for the American Petroleum Institute noted:[40]

If the earth's temperature increases significantly, a number of events might be expected to occur, including the melting of the Antarctic ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans, and an increase in photosynthesis. [..] Revelle makes the point that man is now engaged in a vast geophysical experiment with his environment, the earth. Significant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year 2000 and these could bring about climatic changes.

181 Elmer Robinson and R.C. Robbins, Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants Supplement, STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Jun. 1969), http://chr.gov.ph/wpcontent/uploads/2019/11/Exhibit-3I-Sources-Abundance-and-Fate-of-Gaseous-AtmosphericPollutants-Supplement.pdf (last visited June 20, 2023)

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Elmer Robinson (October 3, 1924 - April 24, 2016) was an American atmospheric scientist. He was one of the first scientists to recognise climate-change risks in fossil fuel burning, co-authoring, with R C Robbins, another Stanford Research Institute (SRI) researcher, reports warning the industry in 1968 and 1969.

Early life

Robinson was born in Los Angeles, California, to Homer Henry Robinson and Mary Luella White. He attended Hoover High School in Glendale and went on to take BS and MS degrees at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[1]

Career

Robinson joined SRI as a climate researcher in 1947 and continued on there until taking up a professorship at Washington State University in 1972 where he remained until 1985. In his capacity as leading environmental scientist at SRI in 1968, his report on global warming entitled Sources, abundance, and fate of gaseous atmospheric pollutants[2] was presented to the American Petroleum Institute (API).[3] In the report, he warned that rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere "may be the cause of serious world-wide environmental changes",[4] a warning elaborated on in a 1969 supplement to the report.[5]

Also while at SRI, Robinson carried out ice-core studies of historical atmospheric CO2 concentrations on cores taken in Greenland and surveyed the ozone layer depletion over Antarctica.[1]

He was director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Mauna Loa Research Observatory in Hawaii from 1985 to 1996,[1] a role in which he was interviewed for National Geographic in 1987.[6]

References

  1. ^ Jump up to:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-Ashland_1-1) c(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-Ashland_1-2) "Elmer Robinson". Ashland Daily Tidings. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  2. ^ Robinson, E.; Robbins, R. C. (January 1968). Sources, abundance, and fate of gaseous atmospheric pollutants. Final report and supplement. US Department of Energy. OSTI 6852325.
  3. ^ Wiles, Richard (15 March 2018). "It's 50 years since climate change was first seen. Now time is running out". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  4. ^ Smith, Matt (15 April 2016). "The Oil Industry Was Warned About Climate Change in 1968". Vice News. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  5. ^ Robinson, Elmer; Robbins, R. C. Robbins (1969). Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants: Supplement. OSTI 6852325.
  6. ^ Noel Grove, 'Air: An Atmosphere of Uncertainty', National Geographic (April 1987).

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U.N.: Climate change is "irreversible"

While the climate situation can certainly become worse, the actions of ExxonMobil and Big Oil have helped to put the planet on what many scientists are now saying is an unstoppable path. In 2014, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offered a grim assessment: “Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts.” That has left environmentalists not only angry at the oil industry, but also wondering how the narrative might have been different had the industry been honest and open about its early findings.

“It’s increasingly clear that the fossil fuel industry knew a lot more about the causes of climate change—and its effects—much earlier than anyone else," said Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA, about CIEL’s findings. "It pains me to think how much better shape the planet and vulnerable communities could be in if the fossil fuel industry had taken positive action based on this knowledge instead of trying to profit from it."

Climate activist Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, has been a long-time critic of the oil and gas industry. “The ongoing revelations about the depth of oil industry research into—and obfuscation of—the greatest crisis humans have ever faced are hard to read; thanks to them, we wasted vital time,” he said in a press statement.

In a CIEL video, Muffett explains how “the world's most powerful industry used science, communications and consumer psychology to shape the public debate over climate change,” noting “it begins earlier, decades earlier than anyone recognized.” He points out that in 1968, API commissioned a report titled "Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants,” which revealed rising levels of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by the combustion of fossil fuel, in the atmosphere.The report’s authors, Elmer Robinson and R.C. Robbins of theStanford Research Institute, warned of significant climate risks posed by the continued use of fossil fuel. "If the earth's temperature increases significantly, a number of events might be expected to occur including the melting of the Antarctic ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans, and an increase in photosynthesis," they wrote, adding, “there seems to be no doubt that the potential damage to our environment could be severe."

Notably, Muffett said, is the fact that the report's authors "recognized that the most important remaining uncertainties were technological: How would we respond and how would we modify our technology to reduce emissions?" Now, nearly half a century later, the question becomes: Why did the oil industry hide this information from the public? Of course, we know the answer to that question: Profits. Instead of responding responsibly to the dire warnings that came with this information by moving the nation’s energy portfolio and infrastructure to a low-carbon future, the oil industry kept on drilling, kept businesses and consumers burning their primary retail products, which continued to pollute the environment and damage the Earth’s climate.

Seventy years of denial and deception

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SRI (star wars) figured out how to sell new selves (how to meas values and desires; abraham maslow dev system of types. 86% ret rate on survey. inner directives at top  "lifestyle" coined term eg I-am_me's, experientals, soc conscious, etc  got q down to 30

then applied to pol: RR line new indiv (get gov, judges etc out of way) turn ppl loose . odd that pulled many diff gps (but lots appelaed to inner directives) [socially consc not factor)

focus groups now used to underst a partic lifestyle gp; now buy an identiy; computer allowed smaller diff batches

API smog LA CA 50's

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062016/oil-industry-clean-air-fight-smog-los-angeles-dress-rehearsal-climate-change-denial-exxon