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11/08/2004
A new website launched by Greenpeace, enables you to untangle the web of financial connections between the worlds most prominent climate sceptics and the worlds biggest oil company… Greenpeace blows the whistle on Esso funded climate sceptics… ExxonMobil (known as Esso here in the UK) is the world's biggest oil company. It has plenty of money and is not afraid of using it to fund pseudo-science and front groups to shoot down anyone speaking out about global warming. Greenpeace’s own research has revealed that ExxonMobil has given $12,071,973 since 1998 to climate sceptic think-tanks working to undermine the case for action on climate change. www.Exxonsecrets.org a new website launched by Greenpeace, enables you to untangle the web of financial connections between the worlds most prominent climate sceptics and the worlds biggest oil company… Impartial? With names like "The Competitive Enterprise Institute”, "The Heritage Foundation" and "Tech Central Station," they go by independent sounding labels. You would imagine their opinions are unbiased and impartial. You might assume they are balanced and neutral. But if you did, you'd be wrong. These and many other think tanks are promoting agendas which deny or debase the science of climate change and attack the Kyoto Protocol. They want the media to believe that they are independent commentators. Yet they get funding from the fossil fuel industry which is causing the problem. Not surprisingly journalists are often left with the wrong impression - and so is the public. www.exxonsecrets.org includes dossiers and fact sheets for each organisation and commentator with a description, history, staff biogs, quotes, deeds and hidden affiliations. Designed as a tool for journalists, researchers, policy makers and anyone who wants to get down to the facts, this freely accessible site can be used to research the links between climate sceptic groups and Esso dollars. Searches can be made on organisations and individuals, cross referencing automatically with other groups and individuals. Of course you don't have to take our word for it. The site is fully referenced so anyone can check our sources - existing websites, downloadable documents, Exxon annual reports and other publicly available materials. So next time you read a story in the press or online that says climate change is all smoke and mirrors, visit exxonsecrets.org and search for the organisation or person being quoted. There's a good chance you'll find a link to Esso cash. Recent examples of Esso funded climate 'experts' being quoted in British newspapers [Previous entry: "Exxon top spending oil industry lobbyist"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "A summer of freak weather"] |
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Latest Campaign News KYOTO MARCH - Saturday 12 February 2005 In February the Kyoto Protocol finally comes into force. Join the Campaign Against Climate Change on a march in central London to mark the occassion by protesting the US' refusal to join the Protocol. Assemble at Lincoln's Inn Fields at 11.30. For more information go to www.campaign againstclimatechange.net Esso up to old tricks on Kyoto Governments from around the world met in Buenos Aires to discuss protecting the climate under the Kyoto Protocol. Greenpeace sent a delegation to the conference to keep an eye on the activities of Esso and other fossil fuel lobbies.more "Global warming is a conspiracy against America" As a taste of what is to come during a second Bush term Myron Ebell, an advisor to President Bush on climate issues, recently argued that global warming is a myth cooked up by the EU to 'hamper American competitiveness'... more Russia Ratifies The Russian parliament have voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which brings the treaty into force... more Chief Scientist: we need immediate action on climate change "Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," says Sir David King, the UK governments chief scientist...more |
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