Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past
George Orwell
The Exxon Knew campaign is based on the idea that Exxon knew in the 1970s carbon dioxide would destroy the planet, yet they kept selling fossil fuels to Democrats who demand their product, and depend on fossil fuels for their day to day survival.
In order to enable the Exxon Knew scam, a complete rewrite of history was necessary.
global cooling which everyone seems to have forgotten was quite widely favoured in the mid-1970s.
24 May 1990, 18 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com
the threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
20 Nov 1974, 17 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com
29 Jan 1974, 5 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com
02 Mar 1975, 2 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com
12 Jun 1974, Page 20 – at Newspapers.com
The present rate of the cooling seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century.
History is not on the side of the Exxon Knew campaign, so they simply attempt to rewrite history. That is what leftists do, and have always done.
“I don’t see why you should have the slightest difficulty in adjusting the trend of what you write to the interests of the State”
Joseph Goebbels German National Socialist Workers Party
How the “Global Cooling” Story Came to Be – Scientific American