McKibben, Bill,
Climate of Denial. Bill McKibben and others. - Mother Jones, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 55, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Climate of Denial, May/June 2005; pp. 34-49.
"It was around eight in the morning in the vast convention hall in Kyoto. The negotiations over a worldwide treaty to limit global warming gases, which were supposed to have ended the evening before, had gone on through the night....Finally, from behind the closed doors, word emerged that we had a treaty. The greens all cheered, halfheartedly--since it wasn't as though the agreement would go anywhere near far enough to arrest global warming--but firm in their conviction that the tide on the issue had finally turned. After a decade of resistance, the oil companies and the car companies and all the other deniers of global warming had seen their power matched. Or so it seemed." (MOTHER JONES) This article discusses how "forty public policy groups" financed by ExxonMobil have sought to undermine the "overwhelming scientific consensus that greenhouse gases emitted by human activity are causing global average temperatures to rise."
1522-3205;
Crichton, Michael
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Kyoto Protocol 1997
Atmospheric carbon dioxide
Climatic changes
Environmental impact analysis
Environmentalists
Global temperature changes
Global warming
Greenhouse gases
International business enterprises
Journalistic ethics
Petroleum industry and trade
Political planning
Press
Research institutes
Tsunamis
AC1.S5
050
Climate of Denial. Bill McKibben and others. - Mother Jones, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 55, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Climate of Denial, May/June 2005; pp. 34-49.
"It was around eight in the morning in the vast convention hall in Kyoto. The negotiations over a worldwide treaty to limit global warming gases, which were supposed to have ended the evening before, had gone on through the night....Finally, from behind the closed doors, word emerged that we had a treaty. The greens all cheered, halfheartedly--since it wasn't as though the agreement would go anywhere near far enough to arrest global warming--but firm in their conviction that the tide on the issue had finally turned. After a decade of resistance, the oil companies and the car companies and all the other deniers of global warming had seen their power matched. Or so it seemed." (MOTHER JONES) This article discusses how "forty public policy groups" financed by ExxonMobil have sought to undermine the "overwhelming scientific consensus that greenhouse gases emitted by human activity are causing global average temperatures to rise."
1522-3205;
Crichton, Michael
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Kyoto Protocol 1997
Atmospheric carbon dioxide
Climatic changes
Environmental impact analysis
Environmentalists
Global temperature changes
Global warming
Greenhouse gases
International business enterprises
Journalistic ethics
Petroleum industry and trade
Political planning
Press
Research institutes
Tsunamis
AC1.S5
050