big oil's smoking gun ... and then some

Passed along this morning:

Newly found documents from the 1980s show that fossil fuel companies privately predicted the global damage that would be caused by their products.

Shell and Exxon, two of the wannabe oligarchs of this era, predicted the calamaties they would wreak, but neglected to tell the rest of us. You know, these are the guys sporting American flag lapel pins and a die-hard patriotism.

Although war planners and fossil-fuel companies had the arrogance to decide what level of devastation was appropriate for humanity, only Big Oil had the temerity to follow through.