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EXXONMOBIL CONTINUING TO FUND CLIMATE SCEPTIC GROUPS, RECORDS SHOW
By David Adam
The Guardian
July 1, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/01/exxon-mobil-climate-change
-sceptics-funding

Records show ExxonMobil gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to lobby groups
that have published 'misleading and inaccurate information' about climate
change.

The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that
question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut
support for such climate change denial, a new analysis shows.

Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of
pounds to such lobby groups in 2008. These include the National Center for
Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas, which received $75,000 (£45,500),
and the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, which received $50,000.

According to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London
School of Economics, both the NCPA and the Heritage Foundation have
published "misleading and inaccurate information about climate change."

On its website, the NCPA says: "NCPA scholars believe that while the causes
and consequences of the earth's current warming trend is [sic] still
unknown, the cost of actions to substantially reduce CO2 emissions would be
quite high and result in economic decline, accelerated environmental
destruction, and do little or nothing to prevent global warming regardless
of its cause."

The Heritage Foundation published a "web memo" in December that said:
"Growing scientific evidence casts doubt on whether global warming
constitutes a threat, including the fact that 2008 is about to go into the
books as a cooler year than 2007". Scientists, including those at the UK Met
Office say that the apparent cooling is down to natural changes and does not
alter the long-term warming trend.

In its 2008 corporate citizenship report, published last year, ExxonMobil
said it would cut funds to several groups that "divert attention" from the
need to find new sources of clean energy.

The NCPA and Heritage Foundation are included among groups funded by
ExxonMobil, according to details of its "2008 Worldwide Contributions and
Community Investments" published recently.

Ward said: "ExxonMobil has been briefing journalists for three years that
they were going to stop funding these groups. The reality is that they are
still doing it. If the world's largest oil company wants to fund climate
change denial then it should be upfront about it, and not tell people it has
stopped."

In 2006, Ward, then at the Royal Society, wrote to ExxonMobil to challenge
the company's funding of such lobby groups. The move, revealed in the
Guardian, prompted accusations of censorship and debate about whether
experts should "police" the distribution of scientific information.

In an article on the Guardian website, Ward writes: "I have now written
again to ExxonMobil to point out that these organisations publish misleading
information about climate change on their websites, and to seek guidance on
how to reconcile this fact with the pledge made by the company. I believe
that the company should keep its promise by ending its financial support for
lobby groups that mislead the public about climate change."

ExxonMobil said it annually reviews and adjusts its contributions to policy
research groups. A spokesman said: "Only ExxonMobil speaks for ExxonMobil
and our position on climate change is clear. We have the same concerns as
people everywhere, and that is how to provide the world with the energy it
needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We take the issue of climate
change seriously and the risks warrant action."

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RELATED LINKS:

ANOTHER EXXONMOBIL DECEIPT:
THEY ARE STILL FUNDING CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIERS DESPITE PUBLIC PLEDGE
Climate Progress
July 2, 2009
http://climateprogress.org/2009/07/02/another-exxonmobil-deceipt-they-are-st
ill-funding-climate-science-deniers-despite-public-pledge/

LIST OF EXXONMOBIL- FUNDED MISINFORMERS FROM EXXONSECRETS:
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.php

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