Exxon cuts ties to global warming skeptics

daveshel

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Is this mean reality is starting to set in?

Possibly fiscal reality. It isn't good for business to destroy the planet and all your customers along with it. Maybe it is kind of an evolution thing where we have got to the point where the big corporations have become more responsible than the world's governments.

(Non-advocated illustration of logical extreme: ) Elected officials have no real shot at longevity, so maybe we would be better off under a corporocracy...
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: daveshel
story

Is this mean reality is starting to set in?

Possibly fiscal reality. It isn't good for business to destroy the planet and all your customers along with it. Maybe it is kind of an evolution thing where we have got to the point where the big corporations have become more responsible than the world's governments.

(Non-advocated illustration of logical extreme: ) Elected officials have no real shot at longevity, so maybe we would be better off under a corporocracy...

From the article:

Since Democrats won control of Congress in November, heavy industries have been nervously watching which route the United States may take on future regulations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases scientists link to global warming. Several lawmakers on Friday were introducing a bill to curb emissions.

President Bush has opposed mandatory emissions cuts such as those required by the international Kyoto Protocol. He withdrew the United States, the world?s top carbon emitter, from the Kyoto pact early in his first term.
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It's not just Corporate reality.

This was 110% the Republicans doing.

They lost power so now them as as well as their Corporate minions are afraid of losing their collective asses as well.
 

dahunan

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Aren't many/most skeptics actually on the payroll of front companies owned by oil corps?
 

CanOWorms

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Originally posted by: dahunan
Aren't many/most skeptics actually on the payroll of front companies owned by oil corps?

I thought most of the real ones were professors and such.

From what I got from the article, it seems that they are not funding nonprofit groups.
 

BrownTown

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Many of the most vocal global warming skeptics are on oil compaines payrolls is a true statement. However, it is also true to a somewhat lesser that many of the global warming advocates are on the payrolls of alternative energy companies, also many of the politicians you see advocating alternative energy sources just happen to be from the states that would most benefit from them.
 

sandorski

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In Canada Oil companies(including US Subsidiaries) abandoned the skeptic position years ago. The GW skeptic is largely a US phenomena.
 
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LOL at anyone who thinks Exxon is adopting the mainstream view.

1. Stop giving money to the global warming skeptics crowd
2. Start giving money to mainstream research
3. Use money to influence manisream research

It's not that hard people...