Right, lets actually try and validate anything that comes out of an article containing this gem:
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., couldn't be bothered to explain why her husband, co-President Bill Clinton...
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Per capita, we use nearly twice the energy as those from european nations.
We use almost 8 times the energy per person as the Chinese. The North Americans way of life is the problem. We're addicted to the unfettered use of energy. We see it as our right to be as wasteful as possible.
Exxon Mobile is not funding 'studies' They are funding a PR blitz. If they were funding studies they would be published in scientific journals. They are not. They have their little institutes pay scientists in marginally related fields to agree with their 'findings' (much like the diet supplement companies paying mexican doctors to be the 'leading physician' behind their product) and craft contrary information and get published in magazines and newspapers.
Funny that you do mention Exxon Mobile. Guardian just published this today:
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
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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).
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And no, we should not be debating whether or not GW is happening and is a direct result of our actions anymore. It's as valid a debate as if we gave time to the Flat Earthers.
We know what's happening, energy and time now needs to be spent on actions against GW.