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Article: Union of Concerned Scientists: Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil's Tobacco-Like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, Create Confusion
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- CCNMatthews Newswire
- Article date:
- January 3, 2007
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WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - Jan. 3, 2007) - A
new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most
comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the
tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the
same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific
understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue.
According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million
between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that
seek to confuse the public on global warming science.
"ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of
global warming just as tobacco companies denied ...