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 3dsound rated 24 months agoclimate-change, american-enterprise-institute, war-on-science - Corporate interests have been buying the science they want for a long time. Still, it's not so often they're as bald as this, in recruiting scientists to cooperate with them in generating disinformation.
- shdodhy rated 30 months agoscience, news, global-warming
- From the page: "Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."
- FergusMurray rated 30 months agoenvironment, news, politics, science, corruption
- From the page: "Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."
Lord above. These people are truly shameless.
- Imupabvit rated 30 months agonews
- Several questions: Is this $10,000 in grant money or pocket change? How much money is given to the scientists on the other side of the aisle (in grant money, plane trips, yada, yada...)
I really wish the media was unbiased, right or left, and just reported the news, instead they try to advance their own parties political agenda, or religion (in this case)
Global warming is a hot topic right now, and scientists keep their jobs and get big grants if they can prove that people are causing a warming trend. How many of these same scientists predicted the hole in the ozone would kill everyone, and further back, that another ice age was imminent? How many are just following the cash flow?
This science is not really science at all. Science should be impartial and try to draw conclusions regardless of whether it extends their grant for another few years. Most of these proven warming trends are from computer models, programed with the hypothesis always in mind and quantified, while neglecting anything capable of equalizing the trend that may or may not be caused by humans (I've yet to see evidence one way or the other that humans are causing warming). The scientists in France talk about a report that proves it, once I read the report, and discount the junk, I may be impartial enough to form an opinion.
- JRyanStevens rated 30 months agonews
- I can't stand trash like this. Sad, dirty bastards...
- LiesAmongFlowers rated 30 months agonews
- From the page: "Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.
The UN report was written by international experts and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012. World governments were given a draft last year and invited to comment.
The AEI has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.
The letters, sent to scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere, attack the UN's panel as "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and ask for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs".
Climate scientists described the move yesterday as an attempt to cast doubt over the "overwhelming scientific evidence" on global warming. "It's a desperate attempt by an organisation who wants to distort science for their own political aims," said David Viner of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
"The IPCC process is probably the most thorough and open review undertaken in any discipline. This undermines the confidence of the public in the scientific community and the ability of governments to take on sound scientific advice," he said.[...]
Ben Stewart of Greenpeace said: "The AEI is more than just a thinktank, it functions as the Bush administration's intellectual Cosa Nostra. They are White House surrogates in the last throes of their campaign of climate change denial. They lost on the science; they lost on the moral case for action. All they've got left is a suitcase full of cash.""
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