Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers

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Source: The Independent

ExxonMobil cash supported concerted campaign to undermine case for man-made warming

An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.

The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has grown in ferocity since the leak of thousands of documents on the subject from the University of East Anglia (UEA) on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit last December.

Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.

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ExxonMobil is a key player behind the scenes, having donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past few years to climate change sceptics.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/thinktanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it-to-fund-climate-deniers-1891747.html

[Doctor_J]

1. From the department of DUH

:wtf: Doesn't everyone realize that?

[Bennyboy]

2. I think everyone knows that...

Some people support the corps. They considier that source more reliable than any thing else.

[daleo]

3. Well of course

Tobacco companies did the same.

[Jefferson23]

4. There are still far too many Americans aka Republicans, who don't know

about the money exchange for pseudo-scientists and out right fraudsters.

When you point out websites like Exxonsecrets.org to them, some still don't get it.

[Downwinder]

5. Exxon/Mobil is also probably the Corporation most at risk from sea level rise. n/t

[tbredbeck]

8. what?

Why is XOM threatened by sea level rise?

[RedCloud]

6. In this case they are tanking thinking!

[SpiralHawk]

7. Krappy Korporate Karma gonna sizzle their asses, too, and their children

We will all get planetarily Shocked & Awed together, you Korporate Klowns. Your children will suffer, too. There is no excaping GLOBAL CLIMATE KAOS -- and YOU are responsible. You cannot escape your karma, either....