NEW YORK – Exxon Mobil Corp is pulling contributions to several groups that have downplayed the risks that greenhouse gas-emissions could lead to global warming, continuing a policy started in 2006 by Chief Executive Rex Tillerson.
Exxon will not contribute to some nine groups in 2008 that it funded in 2007. It said in its corporate citizenship report that the groups’ “position 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.”
The groups Exxon has stopped funding include the Capital Research Centre, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Frontiers of Freedom Institute, the George C. Marshall Institute, and the Institute for Energy Research, according to Exxon spokesman Gantt Walton.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
“Greenpeace arguing that the company gave more than $2 million to climate change sceptics in 2006 alone.”
As opposed to the Greenpeace turnover of over $2 billion per year, iirc.
I would say groups claiming we can control or predictably influence the weather/climate are the ones causing the distraction from energy security and solvable world problems.
This is a good thing. As the skeptic movement continues to grow without aid from Exxon, yet another AGW myth will be shattered.
Exactly, Mark. But, of course, sceptics will nevertheless be accused of other things.
Greenpeace has tax free status, so think on that.
I guess by “environmentally responsible” they mean idiotically and at great cost trying to reduce a completely benign, and even beneficial trace gas. It’s laughably pathetic that they’re just now hopping aboard the AGW bandwagon just as it’s wheels are about to fall off in a vain effort to polish their image.