Oil giant hits at 'unfair' attack by scientists

[spindrifter]

Terry Macalister
Friday September 22, 2006
The Guardian


ExxonMobil has escalated a row with the Royal Society by accusing it of "inaccurately and unfairly" depicting the world's largest oil company as a climate change sceptic.

However, Exxon admits it is reviewing the funding of various outside groups which were accused by the Royal Society of undermining the scientific consensus on global warming.

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It went on: "We know that carbon emissions are one of the factors that contribute to climate change - we don't debate or dispute this."

The letter from Bob Ward of the Royal Society expressed particular concern about $2.9bn (£1.5bn) of funding to 39 groups deemed by the academy to misrepresent the science of global warming. It mentioned the George C Marshall Institute, which argued in a 2004 report that "there is not a robust basis" for concluding what impact human influence was having on the future of the climate.

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http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1878449,00.html

[Kutjara]

1. The truth is often 'unfair' and facts...

...can be pretty heartless. I hate the fact that the law of gravity inhibits my ability to glide around like a spaceman, but them's the breaks.

Too bad, Exxon, all your climate-skeptic flimflam has been exposed as self serving propaganda. Deal with it and start working to fix the damage you've done.

[Aristus]

2. In the same way that Hurrcaine Katrina was an "unfair" reminder

of the perils of global warming.