Brit Scientists Attack Exxon Mobile's Support of Global Warming Deniers. Check it out:
(Comtex Business Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Sep 21, 2006 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) --September 21, 2006 (FinancialWire) Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) is under sharp fire from Britain's national academy of science, the Royal Society, which is accusing the U.S. oil giant of misleading the public into thinking that the role of humans in climate change is still in doubt. The Royal Society has written to Exxon asking it to halt support for groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change."
In this week's letter, the Royal Society objected to an Exxon Corporate Citizenship document that described "gaps in the science" of climate change, casting doubt on the link between global warming and the greenhouse gases which humans produce by burning fossil fuels.
"I am writing to express my disappointment at the inaccurate and misleading view of the science of climate change that these documents present," Ward wrote in the letter.
Exxon issued a statement responding to the Royal Society's letter saying that it did accept the contribution of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide to climate change.
"Contrary to The Royal Society's assertion, Exxon Mobil recognizes... CO2 emissions are one of the contributing factors to climate change," it said.
Exxon Mobil has apparently backed away from funding a global warming denier group it had previously funded, giving $270,000 as recently as 2005.
The oil company donated no money to the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2006, which ran ads on American television touting the benefits of carbon dioxide in May with the catchphrase: "Carbon dioxide: They call it pollution. We call it life."
Carbon dioxide, produced when fossil fuels are burned, has been shown to be linked to global climate change.
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