Is research being funded to manufacture uncertainty about climate change?
Britain’s Royal Society in September 2006, found that the world’s largest publicly traded corporation Exxon-Mobil contributed nearly 16 million dollars between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy groups that questioned the increasingly solid consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming. “ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer,” said Alden Meyer, UCS’s director of strategy and policy. The global oil and gas market generated total revenues of $3200.9 billion in 2005, representing an increase of 27.4% on the previous year’s value.
