ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005
in an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming,
the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted yesterday. The report by the advocacy
group mirrors similar claims by Britain's leading scientific academy. Last September,
The Royal Society wrote the oil company asking it to halt support for groups that
"misrepresented the science of climate change." Alden Meyer, the Union
of Concerned Scientists' strategy and policy director, said in a teleconference
that ExxonMobil based its tactics on those of tobacco companies, spreading uncertainty
by misrepresenting peer-reviewed scientific studies or emphasizing only selected
facts. James McCarthy, a professor at Harvard University, said the company has
sought to "create the illusion of a vigorous debate" about global warming.
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Chevron Oil is working with the dictatorship of Nigeria to pollute
the environment and torture and kill the locals who protest.
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OSC needs your help 8 October 1999
From: aol://3548:RCHERIN For over three years the folks
of OSC have brought you chats, columns, message boards and contests with the goal
of providing you quality services in a friendly manner. Now OSC needs your help.
Without you it is very likely that OSC will no longer be on AOL.
We need
your help to challenge America-On-Line who allegedly, through their spokesman
Mike Sansone, are claiming that properties created online become the property
of AOL and do not belong to the person(s) who created it.
This has serious
repercussion for not just OSC but for anyone who creates anything while online.
Below is the press release we are going to be sending out. We need your help by
doing one or more of the following things listed below. Also please get your friends
to help us.
a) Write a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy at 433 Russell
Senate Office Building, United States Senate, Washington, DC 20510 protesting
AOL trying to bully OSC. If you can send a copy to Senator Schumer's office at
the same location. You can also use this hyperlink for email http://www.senate.gov/~leahy/
b) Write to OSC (either to Robert873@aol.com or OSC@OSCweb.com ) or fax me
at 718-885-1603 if you have any media contacts that will help get our story publicized.
Also, email us if you want to see a draft letter or what to send to the Senators
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c) Notify any local or national politicians
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ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005
in an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming,
the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted yesterday. The report by the advocacy
group mirrors similar claims by Britain's leading scientific academy. Last September,
The Royal Society wrote the oil company asking it to halt support for groups that
"misrepresented the science of climate change." Alden Meyer, the Union
of Concerned Scientists' strategy and policy director, said in a teleconference
that ExxonMobil based its tactics on those of tobacco companies, spreading uncertainty
by misrepresenting peer-reviewed scientific studies or emphasizing only selected
facts. James McCarthy, a professor at Harvard University, said the company has
sought to "create the illusion of a vigorous debate" about global warming.
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