Thursday, August 04, 2005
Show your colours, Bob
In "Cool rationality shatters greenhouse hype", from The Australian Financial Review, Bob Carter argues that

"The pre-announcement of climate change as a theme for the G8 Gleneagles meeting led to a predictable burst of pressure-group propaganda on global warming."

Worse, the devoutly Marxist ABC and SBS "reinforced Greenpeace's television advertising propaganda by repeatedly running alarmist news coverage on the warming issue."

Professor Bob Carter describes himself as a "researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University". No doubt he is a cool rational, hard headed scientist, basing his assertions on what.... undiluted scientific evidence.

Bob is a member of the rather grand and upstanding sounding Tech Science Foundation. Clearly a man of balance and integrity, who wouldn't hide his credentials.... or benefactors....

The Tech Science Foundation is based in Wahington DC. It is described as providing 'climate change support', but of course is just another nuetral sounding foundation for Big Oil, or ExxonMobil, to be precise. In 2003, $95,000, out of a total of $150,000 was funded by the oil company.

It has published papers in the US which lobby against climate change mitigation policy for its oil clients.

Good 'ole Bob has written papers for this group.

Now Bob is probably very clever, and may doubt the impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on climate change. I do not dispute that he can argue as forcefully as he likes in supporting his view.

But Bob should come clean about his oily affiliations if he is to be accepted as having any credibility in this matter.

See:
http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=112
http://www.techcentralstation.com/050504A.html

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