Britain's Royal Society has challenged ExxonMobil to make good on its pledge to stop funding climate change denial groups. Many are convinced that inaccurate and misleading public statements by ExxonMobil and groups it funds are deliberate attempts to undermine the scientific consensus that human activity (principally the burning of fossil fuels such as ExxonMobil's products) is causing global warming through the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG).
Paid deniers of the human causes of global warming have been identified to include the US Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the International Policy Network, the George C Marshall Institute and a UK group called the Scientific Alliance. Such "think tanks" have been used as stalking horses to provide cover for fossil-fuel-friendly politicians and administrators who delay public action to reduce GHG emissions that would impair profits at fossil-fuel producers.
Environment Unlimited | Climate change | Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial (Manchester Guardian, September 20, 2006)
The Manchester Guardian provides a link to a PDF of the actual September 4, 2006 letter from the Royal Society to ExxonMobil.
Posted by dougsimpson at September 23, 2006 08:08 AM