Group promoting climate skepticism has extensive ties to Exxon-Mobil

**Inkslinger** · 3rd December 2009 06:45 PM

A group promoting skepticism over widely-accredited climate change science has a web of connections to influential oil giant Exxon-Mobil, Raw Story has found.

The organization is called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently named after the UN coalition International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). An investigation into the group reveals its numerous links to Exxon-Mobil, a vehement opponent of climate legislation and notorious among scientists for funding global warming skeptics.

"Exxon-Mobil essentially funds people to lie," Joseph Romm, lauded climate expert and author of the blog Climate Progress, told Raw Story. "It's important for people to understand that they pay off the overwhelming majority of groups in the area of junk science."

The NIPCC's signature report, "Climate Change Reconsidered," disputes the notion that global warming is human-caused, insisting in its policy summary that "Nature, not human activity, rules the planet." Many of its assertions have been challenged by, among others, the scientists' blog RealClimate.

The report was released and promoted this summer by the Heartland Institute, a think tank that claims to support "common-sense environmentalism" as opposed to "more extreme environmental activism." It alleges that "Global warming is a prime example of the alarmism that characterizes much of the environmental movement."

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**Goldwater** · 3rd December 2009 06:47 PM

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A group promoting skepticism over widely-accredited climate change science has a web of connections to influential oil giant Exxon-Mobil, Raw Story has found.

The organization is called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently named after the UN coalition International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). An investigation into the group reveals its numerous links to Exxon-Mobil, a vehement opponent of climate legislation and notorious among scientists for funding global warming skeptics.

"Exxon-Mobil essentially funds people to lie," Joseph Romm, lauded climate expert and author of the blog Climate Progress, told Raw Story. "It's important for people to understand that they pay off the overwhelming majority of groups in the area of junk science."

The NIPCC's signature report, "Climate Change Reconsidered," disputes the notion that global warming is human-caused, insisting in its policy summary that "Nature, not human activity, rules the planet." Many of its assertions have been challenged by, among others, the scientists' blog RealClimate.

The report was released and promoted this summer by the Heartland Institute, a think tank that claims to support "common-sense environmentalism" as opposed to "more extreme environmental activism." It alleges that "Global warming is a prime example of the alarmism that characterizes much of the environmental movement."

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These guys and the tea baggers are all hatched by the same minds...the RNC

**michaelr** · 3rd December 2009 06:51 PM

[quote name='Inkslinger' date='03 December 2009 - 05:45 PM' timestamp='1259891133' post='72424']

A group promoting skepticism over widely-accredited climate change science has a web of connections to influential oil giant Exxon-Mobil, Raw Story has found.

The organization is called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently named after the UN coalition International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). An investigation into the group reveals its numerous links to Exxon-Mobil, a vehement opponent of climate legislation and notorious among scientists for funding global warming skeptics.

"Exxon-Mobil essentially funds people to lie," Joseph Romm, lauded climate expert and author of the blog Climate Progress, told Raw Story. "It's important for people to understand that they pay off the overwhelming majority of groups in the area of junk science."

The NIPCC's signature report, "Climate Change Reconsidered," disputes the notion that global warming is human-caused, insisting in its policy summary that "Nature, not human activity, rules the planet." Many of its assertions have been challenged by, among others, the scientists' blog RealClimate.

The report was released and promoted this summer by the Heartland Institute, a think tank that claims to support "common-sense environmentalism" as opposed to "more extreme environmental activism." It alleges that "Global warming is a prime example of the alarmism that characterizes much of the environmental movement."

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These guys??? Can't you spot a lie when it presents itself?? Come on man, your usually faster than this.

Exxon Mobil CEO prefers carbon tax

**freckles** · 3rd December 2009 06:51 PM

I'm confused. The scientists whose e-mails who were hacked actually were part of a group who was getting money from Exxon so this was all fake? Am I getting this right?

**Forplay** · 3rd December 2009 06:51 PM

"Exxon-Mobil essentially funds people to lie,"

This has ACRON written all over it.

**Inkslinger** · 3rd December 2009 06:55 PM

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These guys??? Can't you spot a lie when it presents itself?? Come on man, your usually faster than this.

Exxon Mobil CEO prefers carbon tax

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I'd have to ask the same of you Mikey... this whole middle east fiasco for the past 40 years has been about crude and energy resources.

The oil industry controls the planet. Going green is a big threat to Big oil. Yes, they will fight this with propaganda and their usual war crap.

**Heel31ok** · 3rd December 2009 06:57 PM

who cares , funding the truth is ok no matter who is doing it.

**michaelr** · 3rd December 2009 07:00 PM

[quote name='Inkslinger' date='03 December 2009 - 05:55 PM' timestamp='1259891708' post='72443']

I'd have to ask the same of you Mikey... this whole middle east fiasco for the past 40 years has been about crude and energy resources.

The oil industry controls the planet. Going green is a big threat to Big oil. Yes, they will fight this with propaganda and their usual war crap.

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You know, if we drilled outside of FL, instead of allowing China to have it, things could be better.

Of course the ME fuck is about recourses, it alway has been, now were in South America for the same reason, under Obama. Lets look back a day or two where he stated that "we do not take another nations resources", and have a good laugh.

The truth is, Exxon and others wants to kick coal out, they want carbon taxes, Bush and Obama have been moving in that direction.

Green, because of big oil is a threat to coal, and humanity.

**Forplay** · 3rd December 2009 07:02 PM

[quote name='Inkslinger' date='03 December 2009 - 05:55 PM' timestamp='1259891708' post='72443']

I'd have to ask the same of you Mikey... this whole middle east fiasco for the past 40 years has been about crude and energy resources.

The oil industry controls the planet. Going green is a big threat to Big oil. Yes, they will fight this with propaganda and their usual war crap.

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Going green is a big threat to big oil, I don't think so. The world will be using oil for centuries to come. Windmills, and solar panels is not going to replace oil, no way no how. I would include nuclear power plants but Obama ruled out building any of them, so the only green is wind and solar.

**nonsqtr** · 3rd December 2009 07:16 PM

Gahhh.....

Don't you people get it?

Exxon funds both sides of this equation! WTF have I been telling you for the last 12 months?

The people with money, are buying off both sides!

And YOU are playing right into their evil little game, every time you point the finger at the partisan opposition!

It doesn't matter which side you're on! Either way, YOU LOSE!!!

Look here - you point the finger at "tea baggers" because you have been conditioned to believe that "they all behave alike". And that is not true! It's a LIE, brought to you by the people with Big Money!

If Cap & Trade goes through, they win. If the carbon tax goes through, they win. They win either way!

Rrr.... People, look here - we have to get these greedy f*ckers OUT of our political system! THEY ARE THE ENEMY! It ain't the tea baggers, they're just a bunch of pissed off idiots, and not one of 'em knows how this game is really being played! But you, you're smarter than that, right? ???

Damn - I've been swimming in this crap for almost SIX YEARS now - every time I say something bad about Bush, I get accused of being a liberal, and every time I say something bad about Obama, I get accused of being a tea bagger! Well hell - I can't be both, can I?

Jeez - People - please - I implore you - WAKE UP! We're being taken to the cleaners by these scumbags! They're much, MUCH worse than the tobacco companies ever were (those were the guys who lied under oath before the Congress and the People for forty years, remember?) - these clowns wouldn't hesitate to trample all OVER your rights if it meant them making a buck.

They're trying to set it up so THEY and their children and their children's children, are the ones who'll be running the show from this point forward. They care not a whit about the poor people they claim they want to help! What they really want to do, is crowd out the American middle class and achieve a world economy based on SERFS!

Ah sh*t - my head hurts from tryin' to be so loud. But I mean, it's time SOMEONE got loud about this crap, 'cause they're out there pre-emptively arresting dissenters and spying on millions and millions of people who dare to question their methods. These people are EVIL!!! Pretty soon they're going to make us all wear little yellow stars, know what I'm sayin'?