At the same time when Exxon Mobile is asking to be relieved of their $5 billion in damages for the 1989 Valdez oil spill, they just recorded the highest quarterly profit ever for a public company. Remember how it was supposed to be a bad quarter because of those pesky little hurricanes? Apparently, [...]
In honor of the latest governmental attempt to silence global warming experts and their research, this weeks video, Toast the Earth, comes from ExxposeExxon.com. From their website:
The Exxpose Exxon campaign is a collaborative effort of 15 of the nation’s largest environmental and public interest advocacy organizations to educate and activate Americans about ExxonMobil’s efforts [...]
From the NYTimes:
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said [...]