Outdated conspiracy mongering.
First, the negative publicity from being Public Enemy #1 for the greens caused them to cut off their financial support a few years back:
Exxon has stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank that last year ran television ads saying that carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is helpful. After funding them previously, Exxon decided in late 2005 not to fund for 2006 CEI and "five or six" other groups active in the global-warming debate, Kenneth Cohen, Exxon's vice president for public affairs, confirmed this week in an interview at Exxon's headquarters in Irving, Texas.
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Myron Ebell, director of CEI's energy and global-warming program, declined to comment about why Exxon didn't fund CEI last year. But he added: "Like any company, they are concerned about both policies and image.
post-gazette.com
An example of effective intimidation on the part of the AGW conspiracy against the world's poor. Of course, the level of financial support cited was peanuts compared to what Soros, the Tides Foundation, and other leftwing foundations shower on the global warming plot against the poor. |
