This is a guest post by Jamie L. Vernon, Ph.D., a research scientist and policy wonk, who encourages the scientific community to get engaged in the policy-making process The winds of change may be a blowin’.
A report from Greenpeace, U.S.A. has confirmed that ExxonMobil has been funding several prominent groups that have openly challenged the science behind global warming. The report largely focuses on grants provided to Dr. Willie Soon, a prominent climate denier. It reveals an elaborate “scientific” enterprise designed to distort the science of climate change. While Greenpeace focuses on findings that support their assertion that climate denialism has been historically sponsored by "Big Coal and Big Oil," Leslie Kaufman over at the New York Times’ Green blog has uncovered a more optimistic side of the story. Kaufman reports that ExxonMobil has followed through on a promise made to shareholders in 2008 not to fund groups that ...
