Paul Reichert
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As it seems, one of the most important gas and oil companies had this all worked out to an amazing degree of precision. Rationalizations below. NB: it's sourced from NBC so can be most economically dismissed on that basis alone.
Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s, study finds
The study in the journal Science looked at Exxon-funded research that used more than a dozen different computer models that forecast the coming warming with precision equal to or better that of than government and academic scientists.
www.nbcnews.com