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ExxonMobil is confused about climate transparency
ExxonMobil has managed to annoy some pro-business bloggers as well as climate change fundamentalists
"Exxon Mobil Corp. gave over $2 million in 2006 to groups Greenpeace called global warming skeptics even as the oil company campaigned to improve its climate-unfriendly image".
One would expect Greenpeace and others to come out with their latest stats on Exxon, on websites like this one.
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Comments:
Naive - Anonymous Anonymous, 22 May 2007
It continues to amuse me the naive believe that certain companies have to be forced to help the environment while others can continue doing whatever they want.
ExxonMobil does not have the expertise needed to solve the energy crisis.
If the "environmental" friendly people had any training in engineering or capitalism, they would understand this and stop the pounding and could focus on something useful, such as selling their large trucks and buying a Prius.
Only government can help in this matter.
The US long distance commutes are our main curse. Make it attractive to live in cities where people could use public transportation, and bring energy consumption to European levels.
Investment Practices - Anonymous Anonymous, 22 May 2007
"this does not excuse the sector's generally poor levels of investment in renewables"
Perhaps the author should be reminded that relatively free market democracy does not tend to regulate enterprises' choice in investment practices without stepping over the Constitution.
Transparency - from Marc Gunther - Anonymous Anonymous, 23 May 2007
Thanks for writing about this, Tobias.
Exxon Mobil has the perfect right to fund free-market, very conservative groups like the Heartland Institute, even if those groups seek to undermine the scientific consensus around both the reality of global warming, and the explanation for it.
What bothers me is the company's willingness to let reporters like me (and others) believe that they were no longer funding such groups.
It's partly our fault for not probing deeper. But ExxonMobil, as you note, ought to be more open about where its money is going.
www.marcgunther.com
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