January 12th, 2007

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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.

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Metro
January 12th, 2007
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.

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Todd
January 12th, 2007
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.

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