Exxon and the Climate Fight:

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When the Heartland Institute held its gathering in New York City last year celebrating climate skepticism, Exxon Mobil made a point of saying it had stopped contributing money to that group, explaining that it did not want to support groups “whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.”

But it turns out that Exxon money is still flowing to such efforts, just indirectly. An article on Monday in Britain’s Independent newspaper laid out some of the links:

Free-market, anti-climate change think tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the U.S. and the International Policy Network in the U.K. have received grants totaling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company Exxon Mobil. Both organizations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.

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http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/exxon-and-the-climate-fight/