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Have is a great article on how Exxon and other oil companies have spent tens of millions on trying to muddle the debate.
http://www.motherjones.com/envir…
Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil.
EXXONMOBIL’S FUNDING OF THINK TANKS hardly compares with its lobbying expenditures—$55 million over the past six years, according to the Center for Public Integrity. And neither figure takes much of a bite out of the company’s net earnings—$25.3 billion last year. Nevertheless, “ideas lobbying” can have a powerful public policy effect.
Consider attacks by friends of ExxonMobil on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). A landmark international study that combined the work of some 300 scientists...Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) was so troubled by the report that he called for a Senate hearing.
Industry defenders shelled the study, and, with a dearth of science to marshal to their side, used opinion pieces and press releases instead. “Polar Bear Scare on Thin Ice,” blared FoxNews.com columnist Steven Milloy, an adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute ($75,000 from ExxonMobil)...
TechCentralStation.com ($95,000 from ExxonMobil) published a letter to Senator McCain from 11 “climate experts,” who asserted that recent Arctic warming was not at all unusual in comparison to “natural variability in centuries past.” Meanwhile, the conservative George C. Marshall Institute ($310,000 from Exxon) issued a press release asserting that the Arctic report was based on “unvalidated climate models and scenarios...that bear little resemblance to reality and how the future is likely to evolve.”
In response, McCain said, “General Marshall was a great American. I think he might be very embarrassed to know that his name was being used in this disgraceful fashion.”
- Does this surprise you? surely they have their interest to protect. While I agree it's shady, it doesn't lend any more credit to your side.designbot
- your side. There is more information out there than this "propaganda" that you claim Big Oil creatd.designbot
- No, it doesn't surprise me, what surprises me is that they have been so successful that they have people copying and pasting their talking pointsukit
- pasting their talking points to defend a completely indefensible argumentukit
- Dude, I could say the same for you. Why do you suppose all the propaganda is one-sided?designbot
- What if your the sheep and they are herding you into this lie? Just saying....designbot