From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
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   RE: Roger Cohen, Exxon internal memo summarizing climate models, Sept 1982.   
      
   "Over the past several years a clear scientific consensus has emerged,"   
   [Roger] Cohen wrote in September 1982, reporting on Exxon's own analysis   
   of climate models. It was that a doubling of the carbon dioxide blanket in the   
   atmosphere would produce average global warming of 3 degrees Celsius, plus   
   or minus 1.5 degrees C (equal to 5 degrees Fahrenheit +- 1.7 degrees F).   
   "There is unanimous agreement in the scientific community that a temperature   
   increase of this magnitude would bring about significant changes in the   
   earth's climate," he wrote, "including rainfall distribution and alterations   
   in the biosphere."   
      
   (Cohen was a snr scientist at Exxon from 1981-96 and director of the   
   Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Lab).   
      
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