William M Connolley wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Scott wrote: > > Exxon Spends Millions to Cast Doubt on Global Warming > > > > http://linkstofreedom.blogspot.com/2006/12/exxon-spends-millions-to-cast-doubt-on.html > > " Exxon Spends Millions to Cast Doubt on Global Warming > > The world's largest energy company is still spending hundreds of thousands of > dollars" > > OK... is it millions or 100ks? I think they should make up their minds. > "It has long been known that the oil giant, which in 2005 recorded an all-time record for quarterly income, has spent millions of dollars to fund climate sceptics. Exactly how much is unknown but some estimates suggest $19m (£9.7m) since 1998." That is probably just a badly worded first sentence and the headline writer's a sub-editor who's picked up on the 19m figure. The hundreds of thousands is probably per organisation. E.g. "n its 2005 report, Mr Hoedeman's group details payments by ExxonMobil to two organisations the International Policy Network, which received $130,000 and the Centre for the New Europe (CNE), which received $50,000." later (also CNE): "Ellen Bisnath, a network spokeswoman, confirmed that the organisation had accepted $130,000 from the oil company. She said: "We are an independent think-tank and we are contributing to the scientific debate on climate change."" The article's been truncated in that posting. Here's the full original (FWIW): http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2054654.ece Cheers, Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
