[Dialogue] NYTimes.com: Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate

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Harry,

Absolutely true!  Over the past several years I have been amazed to see letters published and signed by long lists of energy industry professionals "refuting" global warming/climate change.  I knew many of these people and know them to be very bright and well-educated.  Unfortunately, their primary interest was the self-interest of trying to secure their employment and curry favor with their employers. Personally, I think that saving the planet and what is left of our civilization qualifies as enlightened self-interest too.

Last year I attended a metting of an advisory board I sit on, which is an advocacy group for the Geology Dept. at the university I graduated from.  The President of the Board was handing out DVDs purporting to be educational, but which were nothing but diatribes against anything supporting mitigation of global warming/climate change.  The article you forwarded makes it sound as if this sort of effort is over, but it is very much active and alive!

Regards,

Steve Rhea
Senior Applications Geoscientist
Houston, Tx.
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SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENT   | April 24, 2009 
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate 
By ANDREW C. REVKIN 
A fossil fuels industry group campaigned against an idea its own scientists called irrefutable: a link between heat-trapping gases and climate change. 


  
 
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