Exxon Cuts Ties to Climate Change Skeptics
In a small victory for science, Exxon has cut funding to several climate change deniers:
Now, Exxon has cut off funding to a handful of those outside groups. It says climate-science models that link greenhouse-gas concentrations to global warming are getting more reliable. And it is meeting in Washington with officials of other large corporations to discuss what form the companies would prefer a possible U.S. carbon regulation to take.
One group they’re no longer funding is the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which last year ran these absurd and truly evil ads on American TV. I read this news on DeSmogBlog, who is a Capulet client.
January 12th, 2007 at 10:17 am
I wouldn’t be too cheerful yet. Exxon’s chairman is a noted enviromental skeptic and “drill-em-all” enthusiast who has refused all scientific evidence and refuses to take any mitigation measures. Not that the rest are any better, but he’s a prominent case among his peers.
All they’re doing is the same sort of whitewash the Conservatives did by firing that nutbag Ambrose. Next to the “climate-change-is-fiction” chorus, anyone looks rational.
I suspect Exxon’s just trying to take control of the negotiations while there’s an oil-friendly president and administration in the White House.
They see the spectre of a Democratic House and Senate (and the future President Obama) forcing the US to accept that 1) Climate change is real, 2)it’s man-made, and 3) it’s about an oil-reliant economy.
If they can rush through favourable legislation under the Presidential seal while the Dems are still finding their feet, they can be protected from that possibility.
January 12th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I wouldn’t buy for a nanosecond anything that Exxon brings out about climate change.
Thanks for linking those horrible commercials - the one that ends with ‘they call it pollution, we call it life’ could have been a classic SNL commercial. It should be required watching for anyone who would consider giving the oil industry any benefit of doubt.