Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study:

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Exxon and Shell report record profits:

Exxon reported annual profit of $39.5 billion, or $6.62 a share, for 2006 — its second consecutive annual record. Once again, the profit was the largest reported by any American company in history.

Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson:

Calvin: If I’ve learned one thing in life, it’s that everyone has his price. Raise the ante high enough, and there’s no such thing as scruples. People will do anything if the price is right.

Hobbes: What’s your price?

Calvin: Two bucks cold cash up front.

Hobbes: I don’t know which is worse… That everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low.

Calvin: I’d make mine higher, but it’s hard to find buyers as it is.

Posted by Ben Brothers at 12:44 pm, 2 February 2007 and filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.