Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report published today, according to the UK Guardian newspaper.

Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.

The AEI has received more than $1.6 million from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI’s board of trustees.

The UN report was written by international experts and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science … (more below) and even more …

So much for Alabama weatherman James Spann’s rant about scientists making money to say there IS “man-made” global warming…

Tags: Global Warming

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