This video is called The Exxon Files; Friends of the Earth targets climate change approach.
From ABC in the USA:
Report: Big Money Confusing Public on Global WarmingSee also here.ExxonMobil Tactics Similar to Tobacco Industry, Group Found
By CLAYTON SANDELL
Jan. 3, 2007 — A new report details what it calls an “enormously successful” disinformation campaign by ExxonMobil that used tobacco-industry tactics to fund groups who cast doubts and deceive the public on the scientific consensus regarding global warming.
The report was released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit environmental advocacy group based in Massachusetts.
From Associated Press:
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.Still Exxon Valdez pollution in Alaska, 18 years later: here.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.”
Prestige oil pollution in Spain: here.
