Scientists say oil company Exxon Mobil misinforms public on global warming

[RedEarth]

The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
WASHINGTON
Exxon Mobil 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.

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."

Exxon Mobil did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the scientific advocacy group's report.

Many scientists say accumulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks are warming the atmosphere like a greenhouse, melting Arctic sea ice, alpine glaciers and disturbing the lives of animals and plants.

Exxon Mobil lists on its Web site nearly $133 million in 2005 contributions globally, including $6.8 million for "public information and policy research" distributed to more than 140 think-tanks, universities, foundations, associations and other groups. Some of those have publicly disputed the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/03/business/NA_FIN_US_Exxon_Mobil_Global_Warming.php

[Uncle Joe]

1. Thanks for the post Redearth

Kicked and recommended

[ThomCat]

2. K&R

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. A trick learned from the cigarette companies.

It's the american way!

[porphyrian]

4. When are they being taken to court about it?

Certainly exxon mobil can put a few billion towards correcting global warming without flinching.

[Double T]

5. Exxon Mobil is one of the most corrupt corporations in the world..........

and their campaign of disinformation is unconscionable.

[Raster]

6. exxon == The Texas/American Petroleum Mafia

Correction: THE MOST corrupt corporation in the world. Even as the Earth dies, this diabolical corporation has spent a fortune covering for their lies. If not for exxon and their puppet politicians--including the one currently in the White House--we could have headed off our climate catastrophe years ago.

[Double T]

9. There are plenty of other sopping, dripping, wet with corruption.........

american corporations; when we're talkin' oil and gasoline and pollution of the air, land and water, exxon mobil wins the dubious honors of 'MOST CORRUPT'.

[jgraz]

7. Scientists also say water is wet and bears tend to defecate in woods

A study on the Pope's religion is due out next week.

[MidwestTransplant]

8. Global warming is just a big scam

dreamed up by the VAST VAST VAST majority of scientists. Actually the earth is cooling...or so I read on Free Republic.