Who's Funding Global Warming Skeptics?

ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million funding groups that challenge the international scientific consensus on global warming. Groups identified by Mother Jones magazine includes think tanks, media outlets and other organizations such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Annapolis Center For Science-Based Public Policy, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Media Research Center.

"Drawing upon a cadre of skeptic scientists, during the early and mid-1990s the GCC sought to emphasize the uncertainties of climate science and attack the mathematical models used to project future climate changes. The group and its proxies challenged the need for action on global warming, called the phenomenon natural rather than man-made, and even flatly denied it was happening...

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of ExxonMobil’s support of the think tanks waging the disinformation campaign is that, given its close ties to the Bush administration (which cited “incomplete” science as justification to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol), it’s hard to see why the company would even need such pseudo-scientific cover...

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Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan