[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

[Eleanor Lister]

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
>   

Old news, unfortunately.    There are several reports at
http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/world_burns.html

Climate of Denial: Introduction
<http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/mckibben_introduction.html>
By Bill McKibben
One morning in Kyoto, we won a round in the battle against global
warming. Then special interests and pseudoscience snatched the truth
away. What happened?

Some Like It Hot
<http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html>
By Chris Mooney
A dose of doubt trumps years of solid science, but skepticism doesn’t
come cheap. ExxonMobil is spending millions to sustain an echo chamber
of global warming denial.

Snowed <http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/snowed.html>
By Ross Gelbspan
Why the “balanced” media would rather promote paid flaks and fantasy
than report the biggest story on earth


The biggest story on Earth, indeed.

regards,
    EL

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