Bush and Exxon bribing scientists to discredit global warming report
In the wake of a long awaited (and worse than expected) UN report on Climate change (also called ‘how we will have no ski resorts in 40 years’)…This report in the Guardian of scientists being openly bribed to discredit global warming:
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 think-tank 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).