Posted on 01/05/2007 10:29:36 AM PST by cogitator
Press Release:
ExxonMobil's Response to a Report by the Union of Concerned Scientists
ExxonMobil believes the Union of Concerned Scientists' paper is deeply offensive and wrong.
ExxonMobil engages in public policy discussions by encouraging serious inquiry, analysis, the sharing of information and transparency.
Our support of scientific research on climate change is made public on our web site and it includes more than 40 peer reviewed papers authored by ExxonMobil scientists, and our participation on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and numerous related scientific bodies. While there is more to learn on climate science, what is clear today is that greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors that contribute to climate change, and that the use of fossil fuels is a major source of these emissions.
With regard to contributions that ExxonMobil provides to various public policy organizations, our support is transparent and appears on our web site. The support extends to a fairly broad array of organizations that research significant domestic and foreign policy issues and promote discussion on issues of direct relevance to the company. These groups range from the Brookings Institution to the American Enterprise Institute and from the Council on Foreign Relations to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
As these organizations are independent of their corporate sponsors and are tax-exempt, we don’t control their views and messages, and they do not speak on our behalf. In many cases and with respect to the full range of policy positions taken by these organizations, we find some of them persuasive and enlightening, and some not. We annually review our support of tax-exempt organizations and make appropriate adjustments. In addition, we publish the complete list of such organizations on our web site - and we update this list once per year.
Supporting scientific and public policy research leads to better informed and more open discussion of options to address such a serious, global issue as climate change.
Supplementary article:
Scientists say Exxon misinforms public
Oil giant: Group trying to defame name on global-warming issue (excerpted to focus on ExxonMobil's statements)
WASHINGTON — ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday.
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ExxonMobil called the scientists’ report Wednesday “yet another attempt to smear our name and confuse the discussion of the serious issue of CO2 emissions and global climate change.”
ExxonMobil lists on its Web site nearly $133 million in 2005 contributions globally, including $6.8 million for “public information and policy research” distributed to more than 140 think tanks, universities, foundations, associations and other groups.
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The company said its financial support doesn’t mean control over any group’s views.
“We find some of them persuasive and enlightening, and some not,” ExxonMobil spokesman Dave Gardner said. “But there is value in the debate they prompt if it can lead to better informed and more optimal public policy decisions.”
He said the company believes that despite many scientific uncertainties, the risk that greenhouse gas emissions may have serious environmental effects justifies taking action to limit them.
Fox was covering that EM spent 16 million on funding think tanks that Global Warm is a hoax but never noted the hundreds of millions government spends on funding to force this on us.
These guys are laughable! Who elected them to decide whether their theory of global warming is absolute fact?
The UCS appear to be unreformed Lysenkoists.
Who funds the Union of Corrupt Scientists? Have they ever disclosed the sources of their own funding?
Liberals are Laffer Curve Deniers.
bump
Its not the MSM as much as government. It is the only avenue left for government to raise taxes, take property and engorge its power controlling the masses.
The MSM is just big pro-government.
The MSM learned their lesson from the movie "Mr. Smith goes to Washington."
There the MSM was able to effectivly obliterate the "good guy".
The MSM spin was never reversed. That is what they learned. (also that as long as they can surpress anyone from having a moment of confession and honesty they have nobody to stop them.)
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