Corporate denial of global warming and impacts
The oil giant ExxonMobil gives money to scores of organisations that claim the science on global warming is inconclusive - which it isn't. It's a strategy that has set back action on climate change by a decade, and it involves the same people who insist that passive smoking is harmless, reveals George Monbiot in the first of three extracts from his new book
Post edited by: Martin, at: 2006/09/20 11:57
Hi Roger: Thanks for this; I'd seen fair amount re ExxonMobil being among funders of climate change pooh-poohers - Western Fuels another. Surprised, though, Britain's Royal Society has publicly rebuffed ExxonMobil over this, in the article you gave link to: Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
To me, past time that pressure put on ExxonMobil and others. Though googling, I find article inc this:
A campaign against the stance of the world's largest oil company on global warming received a major boost Tuesday when a veteran leader of the corporate accountability movement introduced a shareholder resolution calling for the board of ExxonMobil to rein in its controversial top executive and chairman, Lee Raymond.
Shareholder Attack on ExxonMobil's Climate Policy Gets Big Boost - which is from 2001.
In January this year, Greenpeace article: Hot year for Exxon, planet Global profits, global temperatures: both soaring
Greenpeace has set up remarkable site [Monbiot mentions], Exxon Secrets - best if have flash, to view web of connections within climate denial industry.
On my DocMartin website, I have threads re climate change, inc:
Global warming is well underway Global warming a baby boomer, yuppie thing (?) - on some sceptics, inc David Bellamy, who's gone quiet re warming, inc after attack by George Monbiot.
Post edited by: Martin, at: 2006/09/20 13:03
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