Breaking- Exxon Mobile paid millions to "create" dissent in climate change consensus

[Cardsfan2000]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_bi_ge/exxonmobil_global_warming

WASHINGTON - ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday.

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The report by the science-based nonprofit advocacy group mirrors similar claims by Britain's leading scientific academy. Last September, The Royal Society wrote the oil company asking it to halt support for groups that "misrepresented the science of climate change."

ExxonMobil did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the scientific advocacy group's report.

Many scientists say accumulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks are warming the atmosphere like a greenhouse, melting Arctic sea ice, alpine glaciers and disturbing the lives of animals and plants.

ExxonMobil lists on its Web site nearly $133 million in 2005 contributions globally, including $6.8 million for "public information and policy research" distributed to more than 140 think-tanks, universities, foundations, associations and other groups. Some of those have publicly disputed the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.

But in September, the company said in response to the Royal Society that it funded groups which research "significant policy issues and promote informed discussion on issues of direct relevance to the company." It said the groups do not speak for the company.

Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists' strategy and policy director, said in a teleconference that ExxonMobil based its tactics on those of tobacco companies, spreading uncertainty by misrepresenting peer-reviewed scientific studies or cherry-picking facts.

Dr. James McCarthy, a professor at Harvard University, said the company has sought to "create the illusion of a vigorous debate" about global warming.

Mib's already been victimized by the propaganda of junkscience.com or Steven Malloy... How many media outlets were these lies of scientific "debate" over the reasons behind climate change able to penetrate????



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy

[BoboCracker]

If you sell apples for a living and make billions of dollars doing it, then some bonehead comes along and says apples cause cancer without a shred of evidence, wouldn't you try to shut them up.

[Saturn5]

If you sell apples for a living and make billions of dollars doing it, then some bonehead comes along and says apples cause cancer without a shred of evidence, wouldn't you try to shut them up.
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sadly, their ruse works.

[NJCardFan]

Junk science aside. So far this has been the warmest winter since something like 1885. Was there global warming in 1885 too?

CF2K, your own graph you used in another thread pretty much shattered your credibility so anything else you post on the subject, to me, means nothing.