"Nearly all five year predictions are rubbish".

All climate predictions have been rubbish, from those of our new King, down to our own Tim Flannery and all the hysterics and rent-seekers in between.

Actually, it is ALL predictions made by the ideological Left that come to nothing, but wreck the economy before the truth comes out. Not just their climate idiocy. It's unfortunate that the ideological Left has its dead hand on everything these days - thanks in part to the gutlessness of faux conservatives and the Left fifth-column that has wormed its way into their ranks .

WTF?

Fester states: "At the time it was made it was a stab in the dark."

This statement is totally false.

It was not a "stab in the dark" it was a scientific projection made from Big Oil's own scientists using their own data.

For a "stab in the dark" it turned out to be surprising accurate.

As stated before, " ExxonMobil predicted global warming correctly and skillfully."

Big Oil has played a three card trick on the public and the ignorant and those who cannot understand science have been dupped.

The ignorant still refuse to accept factual information and bleat on about those who do and refer to them as being the sheeple.

WTF?

ttbn states: "Actually, it is ALL predictions made by the ideological Left"

Yet again more nonsensical deflection - my post was about scientific projections and have nothing to do with ttbn's radical left.

Either start your own thread about the radical left or show how the radical left played a part in ExxonMobil working to overemphasizing uncertainties, denigrating climate models, mythologizing global cooling, feigning ignorance about the discernibility of human-caused warming, and staying silent about the possibility of stranded fossil fuel assets in a carbon-constrained world."

Look how Covid turned out to be a minor inconvenience despite the dire predictions of the Left. Governments are quietly compensating people they demonised - using our money.

Thanks for the worst three years of our lives, Leftist predictors. Loss of jobs; loss of businesses; loss of money; loss of rights and freedoms. And now, no remorse, no apologies. And all cheered on and lied about by the Leftist media that is still rooting out obscure nut cases to tell us 'it's not over yet' and, 'there's another new strain on the way'.

It was all about control - the sort of control that the old communists would have given their eye teeth for.

WTF

In the early 70s I remember a book in the school library saying that by 2000 the world would be out of oil and running on nuclear. I guess the irony of the prediction is that had it been acted on it would have meant very cheap and reliable low carbon energy and no destruction of the electricity grid with wind and solar.

Exxon Mobil treated the prediction appropriately.