Want to play a fun Friday game? It’s called Six Degrees of ExxonMobil. The object: To see how quickly you can get from a denier to ExxonMobil’s coffers.
All you need to start is an opinion piece by a global warming denier. Let’s take this column by Deroy Murdock for Scripps Howard News Service (he’s also a contributing editor for the National Review Online).
OK, let’s start. Deroy Murdock is a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. The Hoover Institution has received at least $295,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
Wow, wasn’t that easy and fun? OK, so it’s not quite "Bruce Campbell was in The Majestic with Susan Willis, who was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon," but the connection is just as reliable.
Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers!
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Max8806 Posted 12:19 pm
30 Jan 2009
Max Epstein
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Bart Anderson Posted 5:21 pm
30 Jan 2009
The entity to which Exxon gave money for energy research is the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford (http://gcep.stanford.edu/about/index.html). Other funders include General Electric, Schlumberger, and Toyota.
I don't think anyone claims that GCEP is involved with climate denial. They focus on "technologies that will permit the development of global energy systems with significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions."
My impression is that Exxon has backed down from aggressively denying climate change and funding deniers. Unfortunately the damage has been done. Like Pandora's box.
Bart
Energy Bulletin
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davedenali Posted 11:40 pm
31 Jan 2009
As both the NY Times and Grist reported, this climate-change-denying, propaganda-funding, right-wing-politician-loving corporation is also the company that The Nature Conservancy, WWF and CI took on as a major sponsor of their, uh, "Green" Gala in DC last month.
David Barron explained that conference organizers "weren't into symbolism."
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amazingdrx Posted 12:15 am
01 Feb 2009
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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Pompey Road Posted 8:41 am
01 Feb 2009
In times of war or extreme national disaster I feel the nationalization of key industry is warranted. In WWII we turned the auto industry and about everything else to the war effort. The coal mines agreed not to strike for the duration of the war.
Exxon and the other oil corporations need to be nationalized because of the dire straights we find our economy in and energy acquisition just happens to be part of the problem. The record price of oil as we entered the economic melt down helped push us over the edge. 700 billion a year going out for foreign oil and Exxon making obsene profits standing apart and above it all.
They just turned another record profit, 45 billion and change. Its time they are made to step up to the plate and kick in to help save the economy and the country.
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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turanga leela Posted 3:15 am
02 Feb 2009
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/maps.php
It's fun to play with, although it's been out for a while and couldn't find the newest crop of skeptics last time I used it (that's Exxon's modus operandi--changing the game, and the skeptics they fund, once the public gets wise to them).
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