Daily Climate Links: 4/14/2016

The Burgeoning Trend of Corporate Climate Policy Support. Tom Murray, Forbes.

Fracking's total environmental impact is staggering, report finds. Climate Progress.

Summer-like temperatures smash ice melt records for Greenland. Joe Romm, Climate Progress.

New Documents Show Oil Industry Even More Evil Than We Thought. Chris D'Angelo, Huffington Post.

In 1968, a pair of scientists from Stanford Research Institute wrote a report for the American Petroleum Institute, a trade association for America’s oil and natural gas industry. They warned that “man is now engaged in a vast geophysical experiment with his environment, the earth” — one that “may be the cause of serious world-wide environmental changes.”

The scientists went on: “If the Earth’s temperature increases significantly, a number of events might be expected to occur including the melting of the Antarctic ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans and an increase in photosynthesis.” 

That 48-year-old report, which accurately foreshadowed what’s now happening, is among a trove of public documents uncovered and released Wednesday by the Washington-based Center for International Environmental Law. Taken together, documents that the organization has assembled show that oil executives were well aware of the serious climate risks associated with carbon dioxide emissions decades earlier than previously documented — and they covered it up.