So it goes, as The New York Times reports:
...two news organizations, Inside Climate News and The Los Angeles Times, [have reported] about Exxon Mobil’s role in blocking political action on global warming.
The broad outlines of the company’s activities have been known for years. From the time the scientific community first began worrying about the climate issue in the 1970s, the company financed research on the topic, with its scientists generally supporting an emerging consensus that fossil fuel emissions could pose risks for society...
But in the late 1990s — under a new chairman and chief executive, Lee R. Raymond — Exxon also joined with many business groups to try to block American participation in an international climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.
For at least a decade, it helped to finance right-leaning ideological organizations that not only fought the treaty, but also mounted attacks on climate science, raising lingering doubts in the public mind about whether the situation was as serious as most scientists believed it to be.
Tell me again why government checks on capitalism aren't needed now and again.
ReplyDeleteI buy all my gas at their stations and don't contribute to global warming at all when I burn up tankful after tankful driving my car. You don't have to contribute to global warming either, just buy a large cup of ice water or cold soda every time you gas up. It's really just that simple, no need to make a big deal out of this. Everyone just needs to do their part.
ReplyDeleteSay it ain't so, X-O.
ReplyDeleteOf course...the next step in the total power grab. Since 2003, penning operators need only self report once a year. No monitoring at all of these 11 or so sites. Bait animals kept in abysmal conditions, under 16 hours per day pursuit and often mauled or killed.
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