Is Global Warming a Hoax?
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- lowimpakt0
It is pretty funny/annoying how rubbish scientists are at PR and how the "climate denial" lobbyists funded by oil/coal interests don't have to worry about evidence or science. they have initiated a witch hunt.
I was surprised to see that some of the big funders of climate change skepticism, such as Exxon, were deciding to chnage their tune and stop funding anti-climate change lies.
"Alan T. Jeffers, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil, said by e-mail that the company had ended support “to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/0…
but then i wasn't surprised to learn that it wasn't really the case
"ExxonMobil is a key player behind the scenes, having donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past few years to climate change sceptics. The Atlas Foundation, created by the late Sir Anthony Fisher (founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs), received more than $100,000 in 2008 from ExxonMobil, according to the oil company's reports.
Atlas has supported more than 30 other foreign think-tanks that espouse climate change scepticism, and co-sponsored a meeting of the world's leading climate sceptics in New York last March. Called "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?", it was organised by the Heartland Institute – a group that described the event as "the world's largest-ever gathering of global warming sceptics". The organisation is another right-wing think-tank to have benefited from funding given by ExxonMobil in recent years. "