UCS: ExxonMobil funding anti-global-warming groups
The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a report detailing that oil giant ExxonMobil has funnelled at least $16 million over 7 years to 43 advocacy groups who "seek to confuse the public over global warming science".
By comparison, the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences will spend $110 million over 10 years (2000-2010) doing basic research.
"ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer," said Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists' Director of Strategy & Policy. "A modest but effective investment has allowed the oil giant to fuel doubt about global warming to delay government action just as Big Tobacco did for over 40 years."