ExxonMobil shareholders rebuff concerns on climate change - AFP

Source: Agence France-Presse

ExxonMobil shareholders rebuff concerns on climate change

Wed May 30, 4:45 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - ExxonMobil shareholders on Wednesday voted
strongly against several measures that dissident investors proposed
to reform the climate policies of world's largest oil company.

A majority of ExxonMobil shareholders defeated resolutions, urging the
oil giant to set goals to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and to
boost its use of renewable energy, at ExxonMobil's annual shareholder
meeting in Dallas, Texas.

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Without referring explicitly to global warming or climate change,
Tillerson said the jury was still out on the "complex issue of climate
science."

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Challenged about ExxonMobil's donations to certain scientists evaluating
the world's climate, Tillerson replied: "We don't fund junk science."

"Why that's been put out there to disparage us is beyond me. It's not
true. This is an issue for the next 10, 20 years we're going to continue
to learn about," he said.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070530/sc_afp/uscompanyexxonmobil_070530204516

Fuck all of them...Destroy the planet, so they can have more toys...they sicken me...

"This is an issue for the next 10, 20 years we're going to continue to learn about."

Translation: "we're going to sit on our asses and do precisely nothing to fix the problems our products cause to the environment for at least the duration of the careers of the company's current senior management. To do otherwise would affect the value of our bonuses and share options, which must take priority over any other considerations. Instead, we'll continue to obscure the issue of climate change in spurious "controversy" and fund tame scientists to produce the results we want. Incidentally, we resent the label "junk science" because our scientists cost a pretty penny to buy and ExxonMobil doesn't buy junk. In the meantime, we'll just continue to live high on the hog and leave it to the next generation to sort out the mess. In closing, we'd like to thank the tobacco industry for its pioneering work in providing the blueprint for hiding the consequences of toxic products. If all goes to plan, it'll be 2040 before we have to pay out on any lawsuits arising from our actions and, by then, the planet will be dead anyway, so who gives a fuck? Vote Republican! Thank you for your time."

I haven't bought Exxon gas (knowingly) since March 23, 1989, when Exxon had KNOWINGLY allowed that Hazelwood drunk to pilot the Exxon Valdez. These people care nothing for their own children. Disaster means nothing to them.

And this study disagrees with them. They are pigs with their heads in the sand.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3223473&page=1

"Even 'moderate additional' greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangerous consequences for the planet," according to research conducted by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute."

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Recent Climate Reports Underestimated How Soon

By heralding the new research paper, NASA is endorsing science that places considerably more urgency on the need to reduce emissions to avoid "disastrous effects" of global warming than was evident in the recent reports from the world's scientists coordinated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

more at link above

Let's hope that all of the "dissident" (=concerned, conscientious, wise)
investors sell all their stock so at the next shareholders meeting, the
doors can be locked and the whole building torched (fuelled by Exxon of
course).

:mad: