Exxon cuts ties to global warming skeptics

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16593606/

Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is engaging in industry talks on possible U.S. greenhouse gas emissions regulations and has stopped funding groups skeptical of global warming claims — moves that some say could indicate a change in stance from the long-time foe of limits on heat-trapping gases.

Exxon, along with representatives from about 20 other companies, is participating in talks sponsored by Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit. The think tank said it expected the talks would generate a report in the fall with recommendations to legislators on how to regulate greenhouse emissions.

Mark Boudreaux, a spokesman for Exxon, the world’s biggest publicly traded company, said its position on climate change has been “widely misunderstood and as a result of that, we have been clarifying and talking more about what our position is.”

Boudreux said Exxon in 2006 stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit advocating limited government regulation, and other groups that have downplayed the risks of greenhouse emissions.

[Tempest]

1. Exxon's position was anything but misunderstood

Their funding of the anti-global warming groups proves that.


Exxon will do everything they can to change history on their support for the pseudo-science groups.

[Deep13]

2. Kind of like a Nazi saying he was misunderstood after the camps are liberated.

Too little, too late.

[Coventina]

8. Agreed. "Too little, too late."

They still need to be tried for crimes against the earth.

[nam78_two]

3. Whatever.nt

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. If you hit someone on the head with a 2x4 enough times...

...eventually they may get a clue

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

5. Hopefully they can shut Sen. Inhofe's pie hole.

Unfortunately he represents me. The Oklahoma senator is a loon. If this effort should somehow quiet him, I'll be eternally grateful.

[Taverner]

6. This is good news folks

Our critical mass over the years has paid off...key is to NOT STOP NOW!!


We got CFC's off the market, we can do this.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Let's see them back up their words

with actions and then I'll consider believing them.

[Kolesar]

9. Peabody Coal handed the job to Exxon. To whom will Exxon hand the job of lying?

While I have your attention, how comfortable are all of you with a "carbon tax", a tax that will manifest itself as a gasoline tax at the pump to discourage consumption?

[Robbien]

10. Don't believe it for a minute

Exxon is just backing away from CEI because it caused some big press. Exxon will just set up some other dummy corp and the gang of anti-environment thugs will just move over to the new dummy corp with its nice new squeaky clean name.