Thanks to the warmists at ClimateCentral.com for providing Exxon with the Lyndon Johnson defense.
In “50 Years After Warning, No Debate in Paris on the Science,” ClimateCentral notes:
So if the US government was fretting CO2 accumulation in 1965, it’s kind of hard to shift the blame to Exxon because a couple of its scientists mused about it in the late-1970s.
Seems most everyone was still “musing” about it in still in 1989:
As reported Dec 7th, 1989.
“In spite of all the well-publilcized concern about global warming, you must understand that there is still considerable uncertainty among scientific experts about a number of critical factors which determine global warming,” NOAA administrator John Knauss said in a statement issued for the geophysics meeting.