The Daily Background

With the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, news comes from The Guardian that scientists have been offered bribes to call the group’s findings- which are the most strongly worded ever on global warming- inaccurate.

The Guardian writes “Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.” And that doesn’t include travel expensives that have been offered to refute the major international report released today.

The briber? The American Enterprise Institute, which is funded by ExxonMobil. The article did not mention any scientists who accepted the bribes, but did quote some how turned the offer down.

The Guardian also reports that another ExxonMobil-funded organization in Canada is also planning to try and attack the credibility of the IPCC report. The Guardian also quotes a Greenpeace spokesman as saying “The AEI is more than just a thinktank, it functions as the Bush administration’s intellectual Cosa Nostra. They are White House surrogates in the last throes of their campaign of climate change denial”

“They lost on the science; they lost on the moral case for action. All they’ve got left is a suitcase full of cash.”

Filed under: War on Science, Z-TDB Blog