Manufacturing Data

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a leading science non-profit organization dealing with environmental issues.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists has issued a report documenting ExxonMobil's attempts to create public confusion on global warming. According to the report, ExxonMobil is adapting the tobacco industry's disinformation strategies to hinder the science behind climate change. The company had allegedly supplied some $16 million to skeptic groups between 1998 and 2005. Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists' Director of Strategy and Policy, has said:

"ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer. A modest but effective investment has allowed the oil giant to fuel doubt about global warming to delay government action just as Big Tobacco did for over 40 years."

The report is entitled Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to "Manufacture Uncertainty" on Climate Change.

--The report can be accessed from the Union of Concerned Scientists