Who said this about global warming in 1979?

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"The most widely held theory is that:—The increase [in atmospheric CO2] is due to fossil fuel combustion;—Increasing CO2 concentration will cause a warming of the earth's surface;—The present trend of fossil fuel consumption will cause dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050."

You often hear that the talk back in the 1970's was just about cooling, but clearly somebody had it right back then, who was it?

S · Accepted Answer

sounds like  W.L.. Ferrall at Exxon. An internal memo. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f/pdf

Michael · Answer

HOGWASH. Nothing & no one originally from earth had & has anything to do with the cause of Global Warming. http://www.globalcommand.net

Anonymous · Answer

In 1979 there wasn't any "Global Warming" at 340ppm according to your own source : https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-temperature

As a matter of FACT, most of the previous years before 1979 back to 1901 were below the established "normal" temperature, so there's absolutely no temperature record that would concern any scientist that there was "Global Warming" before 1979. Why does it matter if anyone said it? It ("Global Warming") wasn't happening in 1979.

The upward trend didn't happen until after 1979.

Wasn't 1979 the beginning of the Satellite Temperature Data Era (RSS - Remote Sensing System)?

Temperatures almost immediately went up after the beginning of satellite measuring and have remained flat since 1981-82. Doesn't that concern anyone?

Current UAH satellite temperature is +0.28C, which simply means "Global Warming" stands at 0.28C over the past 38 years or 0.07C per decade or 0.7C per century. That's well within "normal" (natural) variability.

JimZ · Answer

I m guessing that it was an entity that could dramatically benefit financially from the demonization of coal.  You can find millions of quotes from people who worked for Exxon Mobil.  Shall we pick and chose which ones we like.  They also thought Joseph Hazelwood was a great ship captain.  FYI, Google makes it really easy to find who said what. 
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f

An internal memo from a company of over 70,000 doesn't mean that much.  You could probably find whatever you wanted to find.

You contention that somebody got it right back then is laughable.  They didn't get it right anymore than picking Captain Hazelwood to run the Valdez into the ground.  CO2 hasn't caused any demonstrable harm and certainly no catastrophic warming or anything else except in the fantasies of the deluded.

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Who said this about global warming in 1979?

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