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Big Oil Science: Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study

Ian Sample writes on The Guardian.co.uk:

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 due to be published today.

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).

posted by Fergie @ 2/01/2007 07:17:00 PM