Oil Giant Lies, Evades in Full-Page Ads Across the Country, Group Says ads today in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, ExxonMobil rewrites history, omits any pledges of actual change and blurs Exxon's long opposition to action on global warming, said the Foundation for Taxpayer government action," said Judy Dugan, research director of the nonprofit, nonpartisan FTCR. "Exxon is trying to pretend that it is a now a good global citizen and deny its decades-long dispute of global warming." -- Rewriting history: The ad brags that "for 15 years, our scientists Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.
" (The IPCC is the human causes of global warming in an extensive report.) the Bush White House in a 2002 attempt to oust the head of the IPPC, Dr. Robert Watson, and other key scientists on the panel.
Exxon memos obtained replace respected scientists with, as the NRDC put it, "contrarians known -- Verbal acrobatics: Exxon never uses the phrase "global warming," which sounds dangerous, substituting "climate change," which could be a good thing. It uses statistics that minimize what warming is, including "The earth's climate has warmed about 0.7% in the last century.
" That seems slow, of course. There's no mention that the 10 hottest years on record -- Omissions: The ad contains no pledge to develop, much less market, renewable fuels. That's because Exxon doesn't, and won't.
At a March 14, 2006 Senate hearing, Sen. Charles Schumer of New York pressed Tillerson on Exxon's puny spending, less that one one-hundredth of one percent of its 2005 profits, on alternative energy research. MR.
TILLERSON: "Well, Senator, I think your question is are we SEN. SCHUMER: You're not. MR.
TILLERSON: We're not. We are investing in technology, and we are investing heavily in conventional oil and natural gas, which is the business we are in. We are not in those other businesses.
government, working together, is "selecting policies that balance economic growth and human development with the risks of climate change." In other words, global warming can't be remedied without trashing economic That's the opposite of the truth, even from a hardheaded economic ecosystems and these impacts will have economic consequences." ramifications that overlap in several areas including our health, our economy and the natural systems on which we depend," said Dr.
Paul Epstein, the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. "Analysis of the for more sustainable practices to safeguard and insure a healthy future." Contact: Judy Dugan, +1-310-392-0522, ext.
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