Scientists tell Exxon to stop anti-climate change campaign

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LONDON (AFP) - The Royal Society, the UK's premier group of scientists, has written to the British arm of energy giant ExxonMobil, demanding the company withdraw support for groups that attempt to undermine the consensus relating to climate change, a newspaper has reported.

It is the first time the society has written to a company questioning its activities, which the Royal Society said supported groups that "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence."

According to The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the letter sent to Esso, Exxon's British arm, last month, the Royal Society cites its own surveys which assert that the energy company distributed 2.9 million dollars (2.3 million euros) to 39 groups that, the society alleges, misrepresent the facts of climate change.

"There is not a robust scientific basis for drawing definitive and objective conclusions about the effect of human influence on future climate," the letter, written by Bob Ward of the Royal Society, read.

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