An Industry to Trust
An Industry to Trust
This chapter discusses ExxonMobil Corporation's funding of the industry of denial. Between 1998 and 2005, the company gave $16 million to more than forty organizations that deny global warming. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) received $1,625,000; Lee R. Raymond, ExxonMobil's chairman and CEO, served as vice chair of AEI's Board of Trustees. In February 2007, AEI wrote to scientists and economists in Britain and the United States offering each $10,000 for articles criticizing the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment, which was about to appear. A little-known organization, Citizens for a Sound Economy Educational Foundation, received $380,250, allowing it to claim that the science of climate change is “far from settled.” The Fraser Institute, home to “hockey stick” denier Ross McKitrick, received $120,000; the George C. Marshall Institute, $630,000; the Heartland Institute, $676,500; the Heritage Foundation, $460,000. And so on.
Keywords: climate change, global warming, deniers, industry of denial, ExxonMobil Corporation, American Enterprise Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy Educational Foundation, Fraser Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Heartland Institute
Columbia Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
