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TreeHugger: ExxonMobil Found to Still Fund Climate Skeptic Groups, After Pledges to Stop
Celsias Expert Articles: The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 2 July 09
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC: What's Happening: Farms in Subdivisions, Navy vs. the Florida Coast, and more
Climate Progress: Another ExxonMobil deceipt: They are still funding climate science deniers despite public pledge
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The XX in Exxon = "Fingers Crossed"
ExxonMobil Found to Still Fund Climate Skeptic Groups, After Pledges to Stop
TreeHugger —
... using pseudo-scientific methodology? The Heritage Foundation is notorious for blurring the distinction between weather and climate, citing short periods of cooler weather as definitive proof that climate change is a bunch of hooey, despite an upward long-term warming trend. For a company of ExxonMobil's size and business savvy they must know that the world is watching their every move on climate change, so why fund groups which the green community will take issue with at all? via: The Guardian Global Warming Skeptics ...
The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 2 July 09
Celsias Expert Articles —
... You can really trust the oil industry: ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, said it would stop funding climate change deniers. But company records for 2008 show hundreds of thousands of dollars being funneled into fringe “think tanks” and trusts with a record of producing misleading and inaccurate information about climate change. ...
What's Happening: Farms in Subdivisions, Navy vs. the Florida Coast, and more
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC —
... "The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial, a new analysis shows. Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008." [The Guardian] ...
Another ExxonMobil deceipt: They are still funding climate science deniers despite public pledge
Climate Progress —
... In 2008, we will discontinue contributions to several public policy research groups whose positions on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.
Bullshit.
Okay, you’re not shocked. Still, it is worth publicizing their deceipt, as the UK’s Guardian did:
ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate denial groups, records show
The ...
The XX in Exxon = "Fingers Crossed"
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial.<!--break-->Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008. These include the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas, which received $75,000, and the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, which received $50,000. ...
Exxon Still Funding Climate Denial Groups
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia —
... the Environment, at the London School of Economics, both the NCPA and the Heritage Foundation have published "misleading and inaccurate information about climate change." [...] Ward said: "ExxonMobil has been briefing journalists for three years that they were going to stop funding these groups. The reality is that they are still doing it. If the world’s largest oil company wants to fund climate change denial then it should be upfront about it, and not tell people it has stopped."- Guardian First ExxonMobil was denying climate science – now it seems they’re denying their own ...
GreenMonk news roundup 07/03/2009
GreenMonk: the blog —
ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Records show ExxonMobil gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to lobby groups that have published ‘misleading and inaccurate information’ about climate change
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Weekly Web Roundup: Energy Star, FutureGen, jellyfish
Switchboard, from NRDC —
The House passes the energy and climate bill.
The EPA grants a landmark California emissions waiver.
Researchers and activists say water should be a basic human right.
More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries.
Japan fears massive jellyfish invasion.
ExxonMobil continues to fund climate skeptic groups.
Two major power companies are pulling out of FutureGen.
Sears Tower gets a $350 million green makeover.
The ...
We Need a Lie Detector
FUTURISM NOW —
... Even some progressives are still in denial about climate change. That means we all have more work to do. People are depending on us to discuss the truth about climate change before legislation is debated in the Senate. Exxon is still funding a denial movement, (see: ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate skeptic groups, records show) even after they said they stopped. If the country really needs a Truth Movement, the one we really need is one about climate change. ...
Web & media - July 7
Energy Bulletin - —
... that attacking oilmen was unfair, even though I was not attacking them as I carefully took on oil industry pollution. These firms may have eventually been placated by my sister Trilby Lundberg's becoming a blatant climate-change denialist. Trilby Lundberg took my prior family business, Lundberg Survey. She is quoted frequently by the business press in the U.S., thus enabled by and for corporate America far more than some oily grants to the industry hacks named below. -- Jan Lundberg ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show by David Adam, environment ...
ExxonMobil Sponsors Electric Car Despite Funding Anti-Climate Change Researchers
Daily Greenz, the Blog from Greenzer.com —
... , we have just one word for the company: Huh? Don’t get us wrong, an all-electric car sharing and rental program sounds like a great idea, a long overdue idea, in fact, but when it’s being presented by the very same company that just made headlines for the fact that it funds lobby groups that try and dispel global warming as a myth , the message can seem a bit mixed. The electric car sharing and rental service, called ...
On the 150th anniversary of first commerical U.S. well, the oil industry is headed toward oblivion — and trying to take civilization down with it
Climate Progress —
... Instead, it supports groups such as the American Council for Capital Formation and the National Center for Policy Analysis, which issue industry-friendly research. One ...
Exxon’s Tillerson Calls for Carbon Tax – Seriously?
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
... in his ongoing effort to mislead and misinform, I’m not really sure what to make of Exxon chief Rex Tillerson’s recent remarks on climate legislation. Exxon has been continually linked to funding climate change denial lobby groups , but of course none of that was mentioned when ...
