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Climate Change - Funding for Dissent

  • 1.  Climate Change - Funding for Dissent

    Posted 02-02-2007 13:51
    Folks:

    Just the facts on this one (as reported, anyway).

    Mike

    Michael V. Russo
    Charles H. Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management
    Head, Management Department
    Lundquist College of Business
    University of Oregon
    Eugene, OR  97403

    541-346-5182
     
      
    February 2, 2007: $10,000 Awards Offered for Scientists to Undermine Climate-Change Report
    The American Enterprise Institute has offered scientists and economists $10,000 each to write critical reviews of a report <http://chronicle.com/free/2007/02/2007020208n.htm>  issued today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to an  article <http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004399,00.html>  in The Guardian, a British newspaper. The institute, a right-leaning think tank that has received more than $1.6-million from Exxon Mobile, wrote letters to scientists asking for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs," The Guardian reported. The climate-change panel, which represents more than 1,000 scientists, issued this morning its strongest indictment yet of humanity's role in global warming, calling the evidence "unequivocal."