News: Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science[views:3288][posts:0]____________________________________ [Jan 7,2007 1:10pm - HailTheLeaf ""] http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/E...xonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science. I can't believe anyone is still buying anything from these assholes, they haven't even cleaned up their oil spill from 17 years ago, they're raking in record profits, and our tax dollars are funding them. |