How Enlightened! ExxonMobil Cuts Funding For Climate "Skeptics" - Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp is pulling contributions to several groups that have downplayed the risks that greenhouse gas-emissions could lead to global warming, continuing a policy started in 2006 by Chief Executive Rex Tillerson.

Exxon will not contribute to some nine groups in 2008 that it funded in 2007. It said in its corporate citizenship report that the groups' "position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner."

The groups Exxon has stopped funding include the Capital Research Center, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Frontiers of Freedom Institute, the George C. Marshall Institute, and the Institute for Energy Research, according to Exxon spokesman Gantt Walton.

Exxon's tone on climate change has softened since Tillerson took the reins of the company at the beginning of 2006, replacing the often-combative Lee Raymond.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2328446120080523

Exxon's tone on climate change has softened since some people noticed they were inundating the public with propaganda.

2 or 3 weeks ago I heard a report on NPR. I don't remember the exact details. It mentioned that the Rockefeller's were upset with the funding of these groups and in particular with Tillerson. I don't remember the report saying why they were upset. At the time of the report there were meetings either going on or about to go on between the Rockefeller's and Tillerson. I had forgotten about that until I saw this article..