Roy Spencer - discredited by actual research scientists - see "How to Cook a Graph" article May 2008 Real Climate. org
As far as the recent meteorologist, creationist, Roy Spencer on C2C from Alabama whose research ;
claims Global Warming is questionable, well, he IS funded by ExxonMobile
ExxonMobile who make record profits while the middleclass remains unemployed; who is one of the top three big oil companies to drill in Iraq without having to bid or compete; whose spills polluting the ocean are legendary. Lovely corporation.
This is from the award winning journalist Amy Goodman and her show Democracy Now !
From January 2007
"Exxon Spent
$16 Million to Discredit Global Warming Science
Meanwhile, the
oil giant ExxonMobil is again being accused of funneling millions of dollars towards public campaigns to discredit the science behind global warming. On Wednesday
, the Union of Concerned Scientists said Exxon gave sixteen million dollars to more than forty groups over a seven-year period. The group says Exxon used the money to help create a false debate to prevent governments from curbing global warming caused by human activity." http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/4/headlines#12AND earlier in April 2005, this first broke:
Report: ExxonMobil Spends Millions Funding Global Warming Skeptics
And a new investigation by Mother Jones magazine has revealed that
ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million funding a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming. The magazine has identified 40 think tanks, media outlets and other organizations including the American Enterprise Institute, the Annapolis Center For Science-Based Public Policy, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Media Research Center. The report also names a list of so-called
experts that have been paid to publicly question global warming. The list includes Steven Milloy who is a columnist for FoxNews.com. Two groups run out of his home have received $90,000 from Exxon Mobil. Mother Jones also reports that less than a month after President Bush took office, an Exxon-Mobil lobbyist named Randy Randol sent a memo suggesting certain climate experts from the Clinton administration should be “removed from their positions of influence” A year later the Bush administration blocked one of the scientists–Robert Watson–from his post at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The magazine’s report comes as environmentalists are preparing to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Earth Day on Friday.
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/4/20/headlines#9ClimateProgress, a scientific website, from May 2008 talks about Spencer. (of course the right wing blogs deny Global Warming up and down as they drive their hummers) As noted above, more on Spencer from the scientists (not journalists)
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/how-to-cook-a-graph-in-three-easy-lessons/ Look, I don't want Global Warming to be true - who does? - but if it is we need to know the facts so our children won't inherit a garage dump; and yes, there will need to be uncomfortable changes; bottom line: well, I do not trust ExxonMobile's research anymore than I trust, well, Goldman Sach's mortgages!!
Goodwill to you,
Thanks for the board!
Tricia
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