The Green Files > exxon makes a cold calculation on global warming

[LarsonsWorld | just another persons waste of time] Along with the Bush administration, Exxon opposes the Kyoto accord and the very idea of capping global-warming emissions. Congress is debating an energy bill that may be amended to include a cap, but the administration and Exxon say the costs would be huge and the benefits uncertain.

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Motherjones.comhttp://www.motherjones.com [Motherjones.com] MoJo Blog: The WSJ on Exxon and the global warming "debate": The May issue of Mother Jones featured a terrific piece of reporting by Chris Mooney on ExxonMobil's strategy on global warming, which has been to deny its reality while funding think tanks that cast doubt on the scientific consensus that climate change is real and largely human-influenced. In the same issue we had a piece by Ross Gelbspan scorching the US media for being M.I.A.

http://heartsoulandhumor.blogspot.com [Heartsoulandhumor.blogspot.com] Heart, Soul & Humor: ExxonMobil Is Key Bush Advisor on Global Warming: In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

Blog.zmag.org[Blog.zmag.org] Global Warming II (ZNet Blog): Exxon extracts 15 per cent of the oil and gas supplied from the UK continental shelf in the North Sea. Speaking at a dinner on Wednesday night at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, to mark the International Petroleum Week conference organised by the Energy Institute, a trade body, Mr Raymond said the UK’s tax and regulatory regimes needed to be more competitive.

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