From Daily Grist environmental news:
Senators ask ExxonMobil to stop funding climate-change deniersSee also here.ExxonMobil should “end any further financial assistance” to climate-change-denying lobbyist groups, say Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) in a scathing letter sent to ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on Friday.
According to an upcoming report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the oil behemoth funded 29 climate-change-skeptic groups in 2004 alone, and has spent more than $19 million since 1990 funding groups that promote “science” that hasn’t been peer reviewed.
The senators singled out the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Tech Central Station website as Exxon-funded skeptic groups.
ExxonMobil’s support, and “skeptics’ access to and influence on government policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy,” the senators wrote. We congratulate them on their exquisite mastery of understatement.
ExxonMobil and US National Science Teachers’ Association here.
Bush administration vs. global warming science: here.
Britain: Blair administration junk science.
Drastic speedup in Arctic melting forecast:
Arctic summers could be nearly ice-free by 2040, new
research suggests — much sooner than previous
forecasts have predicted.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061210_arctic.htm
Comment by Administrator — December 13, 2006 @ 9:59 am