Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HuffingtonPost.com: ExxonMobil's War on Science

[PhilipShore]

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47371/

January 31, 2007

In a quarter-page advertorial in Thursday's New York Times, ExxonMobil launched a new greenwashing campaign to salvage its earned reputation as Earth's number one global warming villain.

For over a decade the giant oil company has waged a successful multi-million dollar propaganda campaign to deceive the public about global warming. Using phony think tanks like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, scientists-for-hire called biostitutes, slick public relations firms, and their indentured servants in the political process, they have intentionally defrauded the public by promoting the notion that global warming is a hoax or a sketchy theory that requires more study.

The company now asserts that its position on global warming has been "misunderstood," but its decade of mischief is well documented.

Exxon has dished out at least $19 million dollars since the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol (1997) to fund an elaborate network including over 75 industry front groups mobilized in a misleading campaign to cloud the public's understanding of global warming. Their objective has been to counter balance the overwhelming scientific evidence of man-induced climate change with pseudo scientific denials to derail reforms that might effect corporate profits.

[jgraz]

1. When is it enough?

Someone needs to ask these people -- when the hell have you got enough? You're the most profitable company in the history of civilization, yet you still feel the need to sacrifice truth and the planet's future so you can make more. When is it ever enough for you?

I no longer think it's tenable to merely reduce these evil bastards' influence on politics. We need to be demanding that some of these corporations are simply removed from the earth. Exxon Mobil is a criminal conspiracy by any possible definition of that term. Its corporate charter should be revoked, its assets nationalized and its officers jailed.

[halobeam]

2. I only caught the ending of the Waxman hearing

Gov't oversight.. I'll be looking on CSPAN .. hopefully they archived this.

The scientific community discussing this in detail was simply jaw-dropping. I'm so sick of this administration's dirty fingers in everything that is essential to our well being.

God I am mad.:grr: