91 fossil fuel industry, including the Carbon Majors; 2) publications438 compiling these and similar internal documents;439 3) a peer-reviewed study440 analyzing the internal communications of one particular carbon major;441 and 4) early scientific publications on carbon dioxide442 and a publication on the fossil industry’s early knowledge.443 Scientists, including those under the employ of the Carbon Majors, already knew about the harms that carbon dioxide from fossil fuels posed on the climate as early as the 1930s, with 1965 being the latest year that the fossil fuel industry can claim ignorance of such knowledge. In November 1965, the government of the United States of America published “Restoring the Quality of our Environment,” a report submitted to President Lyndon Johnson by the President’s Science Advisory Committee. The report warned that carbon dioxide from dated 6 June 1978; Exhibit LLLLL to LLLLL-1, CO2 Position Statement dated 15 May 1981 with attached Preliminary Statement of Exxon’s Position of the Growth of Atmospheric CO2; Exhibit AAAAAAA to AAAAAAA-1, Climate Files Post Index prepared by Climate Investigations Center with links to copies of the actual documents; & See TSN of the Fourth Inquiry Hearing dated 27-28, 2018, at 82-4. 438 Exhibit K, Smoke and Fumes: The Legal and Evidentiary Basis for Holding Big Oil Accountable for the Climate Crisis (Center for International Environmental Law) dated November 2017; Exhibit QQ to QQ-28, The Climate Deception Dossiers (Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation) by Union of Concerned Scientists; Exhibit IIII to IIII-15, A Crack in the Shell (New Documents Expose a Hidden Climate History) by the Center for International and Environmental Law dated April 2018. 439 T.S.N. of the First Inquiry Hearing dated 27-28 March 2018, Testimony of Lisa Hamilton, at 181-217; T.S.N. of the Second Inquiry Hearing dated 23-24 May 2018, Testimony of Carrol Muffett, at 12-28; T.S.N. of the Fourth Inquiry Hearing dated 27-18 September 2018, Testimony of Kert Davies, at 6384. 440 Exhibit J, Assessing ExxonMobil’s Climate Change Communications (1977-2014) dated 23 August 2017. 441 T.S.N. of the Third Inquiry Hearing dated 29-30 August 2018, Testimony of Geoffrey Supran, at 124-45. 442 Exhibit UU to UU-21, On the influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground by Svante Arrhenius dated April 1896; Exhibit VV to VV-8, The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and its Influence on Temperature by G.S. Callendar dated 16 February 1938; Exhibit WW to WW-9, On the Coefficients of Absorption of Nitrogen and Oxygen in Distilled Water and Seawater, and of the Atmospheric Carbonic Acid in Seawater by Charles J.J. Fox dated 27 April 1909; Exhibit XX to XX-20, An Attempt to Frame a Working Hypothesis of the Cause of Glacial Period on an Atmospheric Basis by T.C. Chamberlin dated SeptemberOctober 1899; Exhibit YY to YY-7, Radiocarbon Evidence on the Dilution of Atmospheric and Oceanic Carbon by Carbon from Fossil Fuels by H.R. Brannon, et. al., dated October 1957; Exhibit ZZ to ZZ-5, A Review of the Air Pollution Research Program of the Smoke and Fumes Committee of the American Petroleum Institute by Charles A. Jones, dated May 1958; Exhibit AAA to AAA-3, The Petroleum Industry Sponsors Air Pollution Research by Vance N. Jenkins dated February 1954. 443 Exhibit BBBBBBBBB to BBBBBBBBB-1, Early Oil Industry Knowledge of CO2 and Global Warming by Ben Franta dated 19 November 2018.

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