Climate of Denial. Bill McKibben and others.
by McKibben, Bill; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 55Environment. Publisher: Mother Jones, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Atmospheric carbon dioxide | Climatic changes | Crichton, Michael | Environmental impact analysis | Environmentalists | Exxon Mobil Corporation | Global temperature changes | Global warming | Greenhouse gases | International business enterprises | Journalistic ethics | Kyoto Protocol 1997 | Petroleum industry and trade | Political planning | Press | Research institutes | TsunamisDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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