Scientists Urge American Geophysical Union To Cut Ties With Exxon (insideclimatenews.org)

mdsolar writes: More than 100 geoscientists are calling on the American Geophysical Union to drop ExxonMobil as a sponsor of its annual earth science conference in response to the company's years of spreading climate denial views. The call appeared in an open letter posted Monday morning on a science website called The Natural History Museum. The oil giant Exxon has a history of funding organizations that perpetuate climate misinformation and try to thwart policies that address climate change (in direct conflict with the earth science association's mission and funding policies), the scientists said in their letter to Margaret Leinen, president of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). "AGU has established a long history of scientific excellence with its peer-reviewed publications and conferences, as well as a strong position statement on the urgency of climate action," the letter said. "But by allowing Exxon to appropriate AGU's institutional social license to help legitimize the company's climate misinformation, AGU is undermining its stated values as well as the work of its own members," it added.

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Re:Kind of like down-modding a post you disagree w

[Anonymous Coward]

As someone that goes through the protocols you go through, you should realize the implications of just "adjusting the data" when you find that your measuring tools were flawed or miscalibrated.

I mean... can you even imagine? It's insane that you're defending it!

"We found out that strawberry jelly got into our spectrometer halfway through our measurements. Instead of going back and re-measuring everything, we just adjusted that half of our results for the strawberry jelly! Now please notice the trends that we see...." -- you'd be ridden out of the lab on a rail! You'd be thrown out a window! And to think that they use this faulty, rejiggered data to try and control the governments of the planet? Fuck. That.

Bad Data + Bullshit != Good Data. Even if that Bullshit was meant to be corrective.

Turn the tables

[TwoEyedJack]

I think the oil companies should get together and only sell oil and gas to people who believe that AGW is an unproven theory. If you are a true believer, you shouldn't be putting gasoline in an internal combustion engine. You get to walk, bicycle, ride a horse, etc. No electric cars unless you can prove that no hydrocarbons were used to move those electrons. Maybe the Amish would sell you a buggy.

Re: Kind of like down-modding a post you disagree

[rickb928]

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