[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

Ivan Trundle ivan at itrundle.com
Sat Feb 3 08:38:30 AEDT 2007


And why is it that Exxon can make one of the largest profits ever in  
corporation history??

iT

On 03/02/2007, at 8:16 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> if global warming isn't happening and isn't caused by human use of  
> fossil
> fuels, then why is so much money and effort being spent by the  
> fossil fuel
> industry (and their servants in various governments) to dispute it?
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004399,00.html
>
>      Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a
>      lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to
>      undermine a major climate change report due to be published  
> today.
>
>      Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an
>      ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush
>      administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise
>      the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental  
> Panel
>      on Climate Change (IPCC).
>
>
> craig
>
> -- 
> craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
>
> Currently listening to: Tristan Boyle - Latent Belated Psychedelic  
> Mayhem
>
> BOFH excuse #292:
>
> We ran out of dial tone and we're and waiting for the phone company  
> to deliver another bottle.
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