UPDATED: "Denier" alert at ABC
How the media hate "big oil". After yesterday's Quote of the Day, the ABC gleefully trumpets that Exxon Mobil are funding "deniers":
Well they would say that, wouldn't they? Anything that doesn't meekly submit to the consensus is "misleading and inaccurate" according to climate alarmists. And they also fail to mention that "big oil" hands over millions of dollars to green groups as well, but hey, that's OK, because it's all fine, dandy and politically correct. And they also fail to mention that the alarmist industry has been funded to the tune of about $50 billion by Western governments since 1990. How does that stack up next to a bunch of loose change for "deniers"?
Climate hypocrisy.
Read it here.
UPDATE: Andrew Bolt exposes the hypocrisy here.
The world's biggest oil company, Exxon Mobil, is reported to be funding the work of climate change deniers.
Company records show Exxon Mobil handed over hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby groups that question the facts of global warming.
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The [London School of Economics'] research institute on climate change and the environment says both organisations have published misleading and inaccurate information about climate change.
Well they would say that, wouldn't they? Anything that doesn't meekly submit to the consensus is "misleading and inaccurate" according to climate alarmists. And they also fail to mention that "big oil" hands over millions of dollars to green groups as well, but hey, that's OK, because it's all fine, dandy and politically correct. And they also fail to mention that the alarmist industry has been funded to the tune of about $50 billion by Western governments since 1990. How does that stack up next to a bunch of loose change for "deniers"?
Climate hypocrisy.
Read it here.
UPDATE: Andrew Bolt exposes the hypocrisy here.
posted by Simon from Sydney at
6:51 AM
3 Comments:
I'm a climate-realist...I never got any money from Exxon...
By
Anonymous, At
July 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Most large corporations are extremely reluctant to take a political stance of any sort. I would be extremely surprised if the oil companies were funding sceptics. Their business is not going to be severely affected by ill thought through CO2 curbs since the supply of oil is falling and reduced supply usually means rising prices and profits.
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Anonymous, At
July 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM
But the real story is Exxon pisses money all over the climate botherers. Not in K'$ but in M'$.
Advances in technology are likely to make carbon capture and storage less expensive over time. ExxonMobil is investing more than $100 million in a test facility to develop one such technology.
Controlled Freeze Zone (CFZ) is a single-step cryogenic separation process for removing CO2 and other undesirable elements from raw natural gas. It will be deployed at a commercial demonstration plant in Wyoming that is scheduled to begin operations in late 2009.
CFZ is expected to be a lower-cost process to develop gas high in impurities, such as carbon dioxide, and reinject the impurities. That is important because our world needs additional supplies of clean-burning natural gas.
But by making CO2 capture from natural gas more affordable, this new CFZ technology may also make CCS a more practical option in the effort to address the risks of climate change.
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And why shouldn't they? We're the ones paying for it. You can't get around without paying whaatever outrageous pricetag the gaia worshipers pump a gallon up to.
They'd push you or I into a volcano if Gore told them it would help.
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July 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM
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