Working Class History#OtD 1 Apr 1982 oil company Exxon made a private report on CO2. It showed burning fossil fuels would cause global warming which may be irreversible and could be detectable by 1995. They then spent $31m to spread false propaganda claiming the opposite https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039/exxon-greenhouse-effect-report
Cedar Fen Farm
Cedar Fen FarmThe year I started researching patents for batteries and alternative energy for my new job and had to report back that the major oil companies and market peers had grabbed most critical basic alternative energy patents available and were sitting on them. That report canned proposed forward research on my project and probably same info backed off any further commercialization efforts for other major tech companies for 20+ years. The oil companies have been laying this path since the middle of the 1900's when Ford outlobbied electric cars.