Attempted Bribes To Scientist To Dispute Climate Study

   It looks as if attempts were made to bribe scientist into disputing the a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

  The Guardian

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The AEI has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.

   Have you noticed a pattern here? Every time something illegal and crooked is exposed in the past few years,as far as governments are concerned, the guilty are all friends of the Bush administration.

   This administration will stoop as low as they possibly can to get their way. Their way should be the highway and ExxonMobil should be prosecuted, if possible.

 

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