Exxon has paid for research to try to dispprove climate change to delay the need for action by years.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=4761&gclid=CMCYxu_qw4cCFR27QgodhSarKQ
2006-09-23 02:17:52 · 13 answers · asked by echo c 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Its just like the tobacco companies paying for research that shows smoking is not harmful to you.
Shows what happens when you have a businessman in the white house.
How many other companies have had research done to 'prove' that their product is not harmful to you and later on it was proved harmful.
I bet it happened with asbestos too.
2006-09-23 02:29:33 · answer #1 · answered by footynutguy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Where's the harm in research?
There are standards councils that dictate that any new research must be presented alongside opposing research findings, so that both sides of the story are presented.
I don't back the government unquestioningly, but I'm not cynical enough to think they would change their whole approach to climate change on the basis of one piece of research funded by Exxon.
And if it turns out that Exxon are right, well what's the problem?
2006-09-23 02:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by Fredlet 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All I have to say is I hope not. It's absolutely shocking and sickening.
The tobacco companies used to do the same thing about smoking.
Apparently Exxon have a partnership with Philip Morris, they both fund one particular organisation, can't remember what it's called, 'Society for the Advancement of Good Science' or some crap, that simultaneously denies the dangers of passive smoking and denies global warming.
What a bunch of c****
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rlchv70: why don't you read the thing in the link.
2006-09-23 02:23:14 · answer #3 · answered by DS 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Keep in mind that there are 2 sides to every story. The vocal experts have been on the side that human pollution is causing global warming. In terms of global time scale, we are barely out of an ice age. Of course the average temperature will increase! The evidence that humans influence climate through CO2 emmisions is preliminary, at best.
2006-09-23 02:31:09 · answer #4 · answered by rlchv70 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think we all need to be more responsible. it is so easy to blame corporations for all of our problems, but the fact is, we are still driving SUV's to work, not car-pooling, and in general, being energy hogs ourselves. It is the ultimate in hypocrisy to blame big business for selling us a product that WE can't/wont stop buying. I love chocolate, but i don't blame Milton Hershey for making chocolate bars, they are on the shelves, and I am going to buy them. If I found out they were bad for me, and I keep buying them, shame on me, not Hershey. It is still your choice to believe or not believe the global warming debate, personally, I think that it is extremely vain to suggest that a couple hundred million humans could have that much affect on the planet. noone blamed the dinosaurs or anything else for the ice age, it just happened. (maybe that is overly simplistic) But my point is the same, the Earth is a large system, and humans can only do so much to change ANYTHING in the closed system that is Earth.
2006-09-23 02:33:19 · answer #5 · answered by forjj 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hate to write this yet the truth is hard.The money people run the show.It would take everyone of us to unite,then maybe we would have a chance of bringing them to there knees.This will never happen so the corruption will go on & on.
2006-09-23 02:35:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ollie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depressing, isn't it ?
Could we organise a boycott ? Shell & BP are probably no better, but if we flexed our consumer muscles it might be the start of something.
2006-09-23 02:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by Well, said Alberto 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh yes and what are we going to about them - bomb them into the stone age?
2006-09-23 02:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by Robert A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's so bad. We ALL have to do something about this! No they should not get away with it.
2006-09-23 03:01:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe Exxon have got it right ................natural progress, nothing to do with us humans
2006-09-23 02:27:04 · answer #10 · answered by FLOYD 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋