[IP] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dennis Allison <allison@shasta.stanford.edu>
Date: February 2, 2007 12:35:50 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study


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Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study


Ian Sample, science correspondent
Friday February 2, 2007
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).
[...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2004230,00.html



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