93 time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequences of pollution but time is running out. One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts. x x x xxx There are more than 100 recommendations in this sweeping report, and I commend it to your study. Implementation of even some of them will keep local, state, and federal legislative bodies, as well as the petroleum and other industries, at work for generations.445 The API then commissioned the Stanford Research Institute to make a comprehensive report on gaseous atmospheric pollutants. In 1968, the latter issued a final report, entitled “Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants.” This final report referenced and adopted in toto the findings of the President’s Science Advisory Committee. It concluded that the “past and present studies of CO2 are detailed and seem to explain adequately the present state of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is lacking, however, is an application of these atmospheric CO2 data to air pollution technology and work toward systems in which would be brought under control.”446 The API again commissioned the same institute to make a supplemental report to the earlier study. In 1969, the Stanford Research Institute released the supplement, this time omitting some of the significant findings in the 1965 report made by the President’s Science Advisory Committee, including the melting of the Antarctic ice caps, rise of sea level, warming of sea water, increased acidity of fresh water, and increase in photosynthesis. It still, however, maintained that “on the basis of our present knowledge, significant temperature changes could be expected to occur by the year 2000 as a result of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. These could bring about long term climatic changes.”447 445 Frank Ikard, Meeting the Challenges of 1966 (45 [I] American Petroleum Institute Proceedings 1965, 12, 13) (1965), available at http://www.climatefiles.com/trade-group/american-petroleuminstitute/1965-api-president-meeting-the-challenges-of-1966/ (last accessed Mar. 5, 2020); See Exhibit BBBBBBBBB to BBBBBBBBB-1, Early Oil Industry Knowledge of CO2 and Global Warming by Ben Franta dated 19 November 2018. 446 Exhibit HHH to HHH-13, Final Report (Sources, Abundance and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants) prepared for the American Petroleum Institute (1968), at 112. 447 Exhibit III to III-40, Supplemental Report (Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants) prepared for the American Petroleum Institute dated June 1969, at 24.