ExxonMobil Found to Still Fund Climate Skeptic Groups, After Pledges to Stop

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Despite pledges from ExxonMobil that it would cease funding groups which question the scientific validity of global climate change, last year the company "handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds" to climate skeptic groups.

Among the groups receiving funding were the National Center for Policy Analysis, which received $75,000, and advocates that not only are the causes of global warming not sufficiently known, but that there is "little or nothing to prevent global warming regardless of its cause."

The Heritage Foundation was also singled out, the group receiving $50,000 in 2008.

ExxonMobil has been briefing journalists for three years that they were going to stop funding these groups. The reality is that they are still doing it. If the world's largest oil company wants to fund climate change denial then it should be upfront about it, and not tell people it has stopped.

Exxon Takes Climate Change "Very Seriously"
For its part an ExxonMobil spokesperson responded by saying that, "We have the same concerns as people everywhere, and that is how to provide the world with the energy it needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We take the issue of climate change very seriously and the risks warrant action."

Which is perfectly adequate response, but if that's the truth then why give any money to groups that actively campaign to delay action on climate change and call into doubt the science using pseudo-scientific methodology? The Heritage Foundation is notorious for blurring the distinction between weather and climate, citing short periods of cooler weather as definitive proof that climate change is a bunch of hooey, despite an upward long-term warming trend.

For a company of ExxonMobil's size and business savvy they must know that the world is watching their every move on climate change, so why fund groups which the green community will take issue with at all?
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9 comments // ExxonMobil Found to Still Fund Climate Skeptic Groups, After Pledges to Stop

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    i remember the santa barbara oil spill, before it i used to body surf the waves and quite often a dolphin or seal would join in. i would watch the whales crusing close to shore. the santa barbara channel has about 3% of it's life left and still all of it's oil rigs.

    royulery
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    And I bet one of those groups was CEI which just whined that their "report" was being censored by the Epa. They have already gotten over a million dollars from Exxon since the late nineties. So perhaps it wasn't released because it is pack of LIES funded by EXXON and not backed by REAL science. People need to WAKE UP and also realize that they have their paid minions out on the Internet posting BS too.

    Regardless of the IPCC, or CEI, or whatever partisan political rheoric that is out here the TRUTH is that this planet is going through major changes that are now affecting our relationship with her and our ability to sustain ourselves. THAT is what we must now work to mitigate where we can and adapt to where we must. All of these so called "groups" claiming they know the truth and trying to derail this important work are only accomplices in the ultimate catastrophe that awaits us if we continue to allow ourselves to be derailed, and the casualties both human and ecological that result from it. STOP MAKING THIS A POLITICAL ISSUE.

    BOYCOTT EXXON and every other irresponsible and immoral company that continues to put their own profits over the sustainability of this planet!

    JanforGore
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    Greedy bastards paying millions to disinform the public with so called "experts" just to protect their cash cow. Let me ask you something. Would you go to a pediatrist for brain surgery? I hope your answer is no, and for that same reason, you can't ask just any scientist about global warming. CLIMATologists are the scientists we need to listen to on this issue, and 97% of them agree that global warming is real and human activity plays a role in it. If you have been duped by sellout "experts" and politicians, then you are a victim of a massive disinformation campaign funded by the richest corporations in the world in an effort to protect their interests.

    WakeUpPeople
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    "For a company of ExxonMobil's size and business savvy they must know that the world is watching their every move on climate change, so why fund groups which the green community will take issue with at all?"

    Exactly - they're massively huge. They have more power than you could ever imagine. So why would they care who they piss off? They'll stomp on whoever they want and be a sugar daddy to the pro-biz climate skeptics as long as it takes.

    bc_f
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    exxon should be able to fund anything they want.

    cmdinc
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    its called lobbying...
    but i call it selling out the earth.
    thanks alot exxon, i hope everyone in that comapany dosent have children.
    because it will be our children that suffocate.

    idealist
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    Use biofuels. Biofuels can be used to some extent in any vehicle manufactured. Any gasoline engine can use up to 30% ethanol blend without problem. Flex Fuel engined vehicles cost no more than conventional gasoline engined vehicles, and can use either E85(85% ethanol)---or gasoline in any combination, just fill up with whatever is available.
    Diesel powered vehicles can use any mix of petroleum and biodiesel from 2% bio to 100%, with no modifiacation, although, bio is a much better solvent than petroleum---switch gradually to allow the bio time to clean the fuel tank, lines, pumps and injectors. Bio is also a better lubricant that petroleum---less maintaince.

    Invest in companies that produce biofuels. Most are penny stocks--you can buy 1,000 shares for less than $100~$200. In most cases---1 share of stock in a biofuel oriented company will cost you less than a lottery ticket. But you, the earth and everyone and everything on it stand to win a jackpot. Do some research into cellulosic ethanol or algae oil and become an investor-----for yourself, or as gifts.

    Wetdog
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    Because you just NEVER know........

    larrysnotes
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