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If industry prevails and we stick with a business-as-usual scenario — and pretty much all data indicates this is what we are doing — we’ll blow through our carbon budget in less than seven years.9 Global temperature rise will continue on its trajectory of 3°C10 increase or worse by the end of the century, and, in environmentalist Bill McKibben’s

In the scientific argument over global warming, the truth seems to be mostly on one side: the greenhouse effect almost certainly exists and will be exacerbated by manmade CO2 emissions. This is very likely to make the planet warmer. The impacts of this are uncertain, but are weighted toward unfavorable outcomes.

That the models can’t reproduce the past is a big red flag—it erodes confidence in their projections of future climates. In particular, it greatly complicates sorting out the relative roles of natural variability and human influences in the warming that has occurred since 1980.

So to wish for an end to humanity so that the rest of nature can thrive—as do those deep greens who describe the human race as ‘a cancer on the planet’ or those in the Earth First! Journal writing under the pseudonym Miss Anthropy in the late 1980s and early 1990s that AIDS was an environmentalist’s dream come, applauding nature’s way of cleansing

Exxon a beaucoup dépensé pour tenter de convaincre la population que les preuves du réchauffement de la planète étaient fragiles, alors

scientism is that it invites, as an almost allergic reaction, the total rejection of science. As we know to our cost, we witness this every day with climate change deniers, flat-earthers and religious fundamentalists. This is what is called obscurantism, namely that the way things are is not explained by science, but with reference to occult forces

Dès le départ, la société Exxon participa de manière déterminante à cet AIE, à travers ses propres contributions mais aussi via un nombre incalculable de think-tanks, sociétés-écrans, législateurs, chroniqueurs, et autres mandataires généreusement financés43. Exxon fut l’un des mécènes de la Global Climate Coalition aux côtés de ses pairs : Shell,