Nope.
Exxon knew much before your 1989 paper. Twelve years before even:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-40-years-ago/
Here is one from their research department in 1982. It was suppose to be for internal consumption only. Gee, I wonder why?
http://insideclimatenews.org/sites/d...e%20Effect.pdf
From these
briefing notes attached to minutes of a 1980 American Petroleum Institute on how to address AGW, yes, AGW, comes this (page 10):
Then we have the start of the denier/disinformation stage.
From
this article, we have this excerpt of Exxon's 1988 recommendation:
In fact, carbon based industries actively sowed a disinformation campaign that is still effective today. Your one of those participating in it.
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/...n-Dossiers.pdf
How will carbon based suppliers know they are winning?
Gee, why don't we ask them (from the above paper):
The
full briefing is here.
So, don't tell us about 'unsettled' science. There has been a documented disinformation campaign by both individual oil companies and oil industry groups, one that in fact currently is being criminally investigated by New York regulators.
Criminally investigated.
Sundance, thanks for opening this topic up. Your smoking gun is only the tip, the very tip of an iceberg that is fast collapsing. And there is nothing you can refute about any of this.