Great blog by the Antipodean scourge of the oil industry, Cindy Baxter yesterday on the Exxon Secrets website. Cindy, who remains one of a committed half-dozen sceptic watchers, had been reading Exxon’s latest Corporate Citizenship report. Buried deep in the report she spotted that Exxxon has admitted – for the first time – that the … Read More
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Exxon Faces Shareholder Revolt over Climate Change
Shell is not the only company facing shareholder anger. ExxonMobil faces a shareholder revolt led by the billionaire Rockefeller family that also has the support of four significant British institutional investors. They are calling for a shake-up in the governance of the world’s biggest oil company.
“What you have done is totally unethical!!”
Two of the leading climate sceptic organisations are in real trouble over misrepresenting the views of climate scientists. Back in September last year, Dennis Avery from the right-wing Hudson Institute, wrote an article claiming that 500 scientists backed the theory that “most of the recent global warming has been caused by a long, moderate, natural … Read More
Britons “Will Not Foot Bill to Save Planet”
A new survey in the UK makes interesting reading. More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change. The survey also reveals that two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to … Read More
Solar Activity “Not Behind Climate Change”
Another nail in the coffin for the climate sceptics. Changes in the sun’s intensity are not behind modern climate change, new evidence suggests. The research, carried out by physicists at Lancaster University in the UK, undermines claims by climate sceptics that cosmic rays are key drivers in cloudiness and temperature. The theory claims that variation … Read More
US Business Groups Campaign Against Climate
Exxon may be about to pocket millions in Iraq, but still its lackey’s are determined to derail climate legislation in the US. Energy companies and other business interests in the US have launched a nationwide campaign of misinformation to try and undermine climate change legislation pending in Congress, saying it could cost millions of jobs, … Read More
Huge Herd of Climate Sceptics Descends on NY
Despite the fact we are in deep “doo-doo” over climate (see blog below), the climate sceptic dinosaurs are still grazing in huge numbers, saying that climate change is not happening or not man-made. In fact next week a huge herd of the beasties will descend on New York for an “International Conference on Climate Change” … Read More
First Biofuel Flight Dismissed as Stunt
The world’s first commercial aircraft powered partly by biofuel took off from Heathrow yesterday to a storm of criticism from climate change experts, who insisted it was nothing more than Sir Richard Branson’s latest “nonsensical” publicity stunt. The Virgin Atlantic 747 flew from London to Amsterdam using a 20 per cent biofuel mix of coconut … Read More
A Record Every Day
“All the snow has turned to water, Christmas day has come and gone.” The old John Prine/Steve Goodman song’s been rattling in my head all week because the two feet of snow that were on the ground at New Year’s is gone, running through my basement like a righteous mighty stream. “Think globally, act locally.” … Read More
The Dinosaurs Still Graze at the AEI
Great article from Charlie Cray in the Huffington Post:”It felt like I’d just walked onto the set of the sequel to Jurassic Park. There was an industry dinosaur who I’d thought was gone for good.” He continues: “But no. Former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond, and his colleagues at the National Petroleum Council, an industry committee … Read More