Talking of Africa. A new aid-agency partnership has pledged US$60 million over five years to fund research into how Africa can best deal with the effects of climate change. The scheme called the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Programme, is a joint project of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the UK Department for … Read More
Day: May 23, 2006
Exxon-Funded Sceptics Turn on Gore
As Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, premiers at the Cannes film festival, the Exxon-funded climate sceptics are crawling out to attack him. One of those is Myron Ebell, the arch-fossil fuel advocate from the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute, the organisation that recently launched the most bizarre adverts promoting the benefits of CO2.