Royal Society attacks Exxon for funding 'climate change deniers'
Wed 18 October 2006
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Britain's leading scientific academy, the Royal Society, has attacked the US oil company ExxonMobil for funding organisations to produce "inaccurate and misleading" information about climate change in attempts to undermine the scientific consensus.
The Royal Society, a 1,400-member organisation with a 400-year history, also strongly criticises the company's own public statements on global warming.
The Royal Society expressed their concerns in a letter to Esso, the UK subsidiary of ExxonMobil. This is the first time the Society has written to a company to challenge its activities.
The International Herald Tribune reports comments from the Royal Society's Bob Ward: "There is a false sense somehow that there is a two-sided debate going on in the scientific community (about climate change)...the reality is that thousands and thousands of scientists around the world agree that it is linked to greenhouse gases with one or two contrarians."
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