Publié : 10 oct. 2006, 23:24
Faut pas desesperer : Exxon arrete de financer les Think Thank recusant le rechauffement climatique, dont le fameux et infame CEI
C'est ici :
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/09 ... to_get.php
C'est ici :
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/09 ... to_get.php
Si cette année ils commencent à reconnaitre le RC, l'an prochain ils reconnaitrons le peak oil, peut être ...
In a letter earlier this month to Esso, the UK arm of ExxonMobil, the Royal Society cites its own survey which found that ExxonMobil last year distributed $2.9m to 39 groups that the society says misrepresent the science of climate change.
These include the International Policy Network, a thinktank with its HQ in London, and the George C Marshall Institute, which is based in Washington DC. In 2004, the institute jointly published a report with the UK group the Scientific Alliance which claimed that global temperature rises were not related to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
"There is not a robust scientific basis for drawing definitive and objective conclusions about the effect of human influence on future climate," it said.
In the letter, Bob Ward of the Royal Society writes: "At our meeting in July ... you indicated that ExxonMobil would not be providing any further funding to these organisations. I would be grateful if you could let me know when ExxonMobil plans to carry out this pledge." ...
A spokesman added that ExxonMobil stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute this year.
