I'm Sorry...This Is More Of A Rant...Not So Much A Tip
September 21st 2006 04:07
This pisses me off. Granted, my own bias notwithstanding this company pisses me off and let me make ZERO mistake about that...nuff of the rant...These 254,000.00 per day retirees can kiss my everlovin ARSE! Enjoy!
LONDON - Britain's leading scientific academy has accused oil company Exxon Mobil Corp. of misleading the public about global warming and funding groups that undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
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The Royal Society said Wednesday that it had written to Exxon asking it to halt support for groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change."
The Sept. 4 letter was sent to Esso U.K., Exxon's British arm, by the society's official spokesman, Bob Ward.
The letter said Exxon had given $2.9 million to 39 groups that "have been misinforming the public about the science of climate change."
The groups — among more than 50 listed on Exxon's Web site as receiving funding for "public information and policy research" — include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market advocacy group based in Washington, and the Tempe, Ariz.-based Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which Ward said disputes the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
"It's bizarre that a company like ExxonMobil should be funding an organization that so clearly is putting out information that is at odds with the opinion of the scientific community," Ward told The Associated Press.
ExxonMobil confirmed it had received the letter.
In a statement, the company said it funded "organizations which research significant policy issues and promote informed discussion on issues of direct relevance to the company."
"These organizations do not speak on our behalf, nor do we control their views and messages," it added.
ExxonMobil said its reports "explain our views openly and honestly on climate change." The company said it accepted that carbon dioxide emissions were "one of the contributing factors to climate change."
Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is Britain's leading academy of scientists, and counts Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein among its past members
As always..........Godspeed & Good Luck!
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Comment by JohnDoe
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This is the stuff that really puts a fire in my belly.
Big Oil and all the huge multinational conglomerates that distort the truth and reep massive profits at the expense of the enviroment, should be treated with the same disdain as pedophiles.
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Suspending progress and technology in favor of the $$$$$$$$$$$$'s, these are the true evil of the modern world that fuel wars and continue to destroy our planet.
Damn Freemason's?
aaaaahhhhhhhh, that feels better. ranting soothes me, its only whn there is silence do I get frightened.
Comment by eatdrinksnort
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