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The Society's communications manager Bob Ward
reminded Exxon pointedly that one of its own
scientists had contributed to the IPCC chapter in
question.
The Royal Society said it had no problem with
Exxon funding scientific research, but "we do have
concerns about ExxonMobil's funding of lobby
groups that seek to misrepresent the scientific
evidence relating to climate change."
Ward said Exxon was funding at least 39
organizations "featuring information on their
websites that misrepresented the science on climate
change, by outright denial of the evidence that
greenhouse gases are driving climate change, or by
overstating the amount and significance of
uncertainty in knowledge,"
Appendix B
GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED WITH
EXXONMOBIL'S DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
Table 1 Select ExxonMobil-Funded Organizations Providing Disinformation on Global WarTnlng T/1
OnpnUaUon
Total ExxonMobil
Funding "*
(1996-2003) lllmtrattve Information
Africa Figfitng Malaria $30,000 AFM received $30,000 donation In 2004 for "clmata change outreach." Ths grant represents
10>j of their total expenses for that year. AFM'a webs- ta has an extensive coi'ccton of articles
end commentary that argue oga nst urgent action on ctmate change.' ^
American Council for Capital
Foanotion, Center (of Pff cy
Research
American Council on Scene*
and Health
51,604323 One-third o) the total ExxonMob 1 grants to ACCF-CPH between 1993 and 2005 were
BpecitaiSy designated for cSmate change actMties. ExxonMobil funds represent appro»matefy
36% of their total expenses in 2005."'
Si 25.000 ExxonMotil donated $15,000 to ACSH In 2004 for "ctmate change issues." A September 2006
Better Busness Bureau Wise Giving AJiancs Chanty Report conctudes that the ACSH does not
meet all the standards for charity accountably.'^
American Eniofpriso Institute $1.625WO Lee R. Raymond, retired char and CEO of ExxonMoW, Is vice chairman of AETs Board of
Truslees."'
American Friends of the
Instituta of Economic AfTaers
American Legislative Exchange
Co unci
$50,000 American Friends of the IEA received a $50,000 ExxonMobil donation In 2004 for "d mata
change Issues.* This grant represents 29% of their total expenses tor that year. The 2004 IEA
study, Ofimate AJonrasm ReconsJde/vd, "demonstrates how the balance of evidence supports a
benign, enhanced greenhouse effect."'*'
$1,111,700 Of the total ExxonMobil grants to ALEC, $327,000 was speciflcoty for cSmata change projects.
ALEC received $241,500 In 2005 from ExxonMobil.
In 2007, the Union of Concerned Scientists published a report
detailing Exxon's campaign of uncertainty, including a table
identifying dozens of organizations that the group said had received
$16 million in Exxon contributions over several years. (Credit: Union
of Concerned Scientists)
Exxon's uncertainty campaign was detailed in three
exhaustive reports published in 2007 by the Union
of Concerned Scientists and the Government
Accountability Project.
At a Congressional hearing in 2007, Harvard
scientistjames McCarthy, who was a member of the
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