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Climategate: Follow The Money
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Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency International. It also gave a combined $125,000 to the Heritage Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis, two conservative think tanks that have offered dissenting views on what until recently was called--without irony--the climate change "consensus."
To read some of the press accounts of these gifts--amounting to about 0.00027% of Exxon's 2008 profits of $45 billion--you might think you'd hit upon the scandal of the age. But thanks to what now goes by the name of climategate, it turns out the real scandal lies elsewhere...
To read some of the press accounts of these gifts--amounting to about 0.00027% of Exxon's 2008 profits of $45 billion--you might think you'd hit upon the scandal of the age. But thanks to what now goes by the name of climategate, it turns out the real scandal lies elsewhere...
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