ExxonMobil spent approximately $16 million between 1998 and 2005 on 43 organizations that have cast doubt on the reality of human-caused global warming.
Funding ranged from $30,000 for the group Africa Fighting Malaria to $1.6 million to the American Enterprise Institute, a pro-business think tank in Washington.
Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent for Reuters, sees a parallel between the energy company’s aim to discredit the science of global warming and the tobacco industry’s decades long “cancer causing” cover up.
I see more bad PR for a firm with a long-standing curse on its house.
[via Hill | Holliday]