ExxonMobil, one of the world's largest oil companies, has embarked on a crusade to discredit and marginalize Global Warming and the wealth of scientific research supporting its existence. This Mother Jones article offers a comprehensive look at the ways in which ExxonMobil has attempted to influence public opinion about Global Warming and downplay its environmental effects.
One of the links from this page points to an article which calims the following when talking about the Kyoto Protocol. " Absent from the debate is the discussion of human ingenuity and our ability to adapt to our environment; when the temperature increases, we turn on the air conditioner. More people die from cold temperatures than heat, ... "global warming could actually save lives". It is much more important to focus on innovative technology for energy sustainability and security."
The US, the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, does not intend to ratify the Kyoto protocol, claiming that this will slow done industrial progress. How can you even say these things aloud let alone publish them ?!!!
PBS had this awesome program where they showed how the global climate is so tightly interlinked . Kids in carribean were reporting more and more asthma cases and this was tightly coupled to the rains in the Indian ocean. The rains/thunder would cause some wind patterns in the atlantic to change which would cause more sand to blow over from the Africa's to the America's. Also more sand because the rivers in the Africas are drying out due to ill-planned industrialization and higher temperatures. With this kind of knowledge and scientific ability we still are not able to do much because of the lack of political will and the political will seems to be more or less on a leash held tightly by the industry moguls.
