ExxonMobil-backed Think Tank Pronounces Climate Change A "Myth"

[hatrack]

"Climate change is 'a myth', sea levels are not rising and Britain's chief scientist is 'an embarrassment' for believing catastrophe is inevitable. These are the controversial views of a new London-based think-tank that will publish a report tomorrow attacking the apocalyptic view that man-made greenhouse gases will destroy the planet.

The International Policy Network will publish its long-awaited study, claiming that the science warning of an environmental disaster caused by climate change is 'fatally flawed'. It will state that previous predictions of changes in sea level of a metre over the next 100 years were overestimates. Instead, the report will say that sea level rises will reach a maximum of just 20cms during the next century, adding that global warming could, in fact, benefit mankind by increasing fish stocks.

The report's views closely mirror those held by many of President George Bush's senior advisers, who have been accused of derailing attempts to reach international agreement over how to prevent climate change. The report is set to cause controversy. The network, which has links with some of the President's advisers, has received cash donations from the US oil giant ExxonMobil, which has long lobbied against the climate change agenda. Exxon lists the donation as part of its 'climate change outreach' programme."

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The executive director of the environment group Greenpeace, Stephen Tindale, said: 'We've been watching how the network employs the same tactics as Washington neo-cons, now we know they employ some of the same people as well. 'For years, the tobacco companies blocked action on smoking by sowing doubt about the science. Esso and its friends have done the same thing in the US on climate change and now they're busy in Britain. Global warming is the biggest threat we face, the science is certain.'"

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1361276,00.html

ED. - Oddly enough, this article didn't mention whether IPN's "report" will be peer-reviewed. Something tells me "no", for reasons I just can't explain . . .

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. BULL!!!

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[MatrixEscape]

2. Sigh! n/t

[Fovea]

3. A pejorative slam

at actual science. More faith based energy policy, from the First Church of Petroleum Extraction.

[illflem]

4. What else would you expect of them

[kohodog]

5. And there's and endless supply of oil!

Go buy another Hummer.

I have not bought gas from Exxon Mobil in over whree months and will continue using BP or Shell. At least they are beginning to consider themselves energy companies and making small steps into alternative sources of energy.

We need to begin to move away from fossil fuel, but withdrawal is a bitch.