Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
In the UK The Guardian is saying Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial.
In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have “misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence”.
The scientists also strongly criticise the company’s public statements on global warming, which they describe as “inaccurate and misleading”.
This is the first time the society has written to a company to challenge its activities. The move reflects mounting concern about the activities of lobby groups that try to undermine the overwhelming scientific evidence that emissions are linked to climate change.
The groups, such as the US Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), whose senior figures have described global warming as a myth, are expected to launch a renewed campaign ahead of a major new climate change report.
You can read the letter in full.
The Royal Society’s move emerged as Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, warned that the polar ice caps were breaking up at a faster rate than glaciologists thought possible, with profound consequences for global sea levels. Professor Rapley said the change was almost certainly down to global warming. “It’s like opening a window and seeing what’s going on and the message is that it’s worse than we thought,” he said.
To see for yourself how ExxonMobile has funded enemies of humanity, explore the website ExxonSecrets.Org. There is a shrinking pool of shills who are desperate to hold back the tide. Assuming we survive the looming emergency I am confident they will be judged harshly for their actions. — DS
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