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Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study

Posted by Zonk on from the you're-wrong-and-i-think-mr.-lincoln-knows-why dept.

w1z4rd writes "According to an article in the Guardian, scientists and economists have been offered large bribes by a lobbying group funded by ExxonMobil. The offers were extended by the American Enterprise Institute group, which apparently has numerous ties to the Bush administration. Couched in terms of an offer to write 'dissenting papers' against the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, several scientists contacted for the article refused the offers on conflict of interest grounds."

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  1. Re:The Report by SEMW · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just as a question though, how is [oil companies] offering a bribe any better than refusing to fund/publish scientifically valid counterpoints to the consensus on global warming? Ironically, the "scientifically valid counterpoints" you link to are also funded by the Oil companies.
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  2. Re:The Report by Basehart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Micheal Savage, a radio talk show host here in the USA, was explaining to his millions of listeners yesterday that the so-called global warming trend is nothing but a natural cycle that occurs through the grace of God from time to time, and that it's sheer impudence to imply that mere man can cause such a global condition. He also went on to say that several thousand ducks waiting outside his SF bungalow upon his return from a trip to Florida were a sign from God. So who ya going to believe?

  3. Marketplace of Ideas? by internic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess they took the expression, "the marketplace of ideas" a bit too literally.

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