--- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > _Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny :: > > CHICAGO > > > SUN-TIMES :: Other Views_ > > > (http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/450392,CST-EDT- > > REF30b.article) > > > > > > I already posted a link to this article. > > > > Judy's response? It's totally meaningless because ExxonMobile funds > > the institute where the author works. > > > Heartland Institute has received $791,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
SO WHAT? Did you read the article? It was, mostly, a compendium of references to published articles in the leading scientific journals that refuted the global warming position. Are all these journals and all the authors of those pieces ALSO in the pocket of ExxonMobile? > > The Heartland Institute created a website in the Spring of 2007, > www.globalwarmingheartland.org, which asserts there is no scientific > consensus on global warming and features a list of experts and a list > of like-minded think tanks, many of whom have received funding from > ExxonMobil and other polluters. [...] > > Walter F. Buchholtz, an ExxonMobil executive, serves as Heartland's > Government Relations Advisor, according to Heartland's 2005 IRS Form > 990, pg. 15. > http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2005/363/309/2005-363309812- 0295fbb2-9.pdf > > The Heartland Institute formerly sponsored and hosted > www.climatesearch.org, a web page ostensibly dedicated to objective > research on global warming, but at the same time presenting heavily > biased research by organizations such as the American Petroleum > Institute as an FAQ section. > > http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41 >
