REMEMBER the days when tobacco companies denied there was a link between smoking and cancer? Litigation put an end to that, but the tactics live on elsewhere. The US Union of Concerned ¾«¶«´«Ã½s (UCS) says that misinformation and denial continue when it comes to global warming. This time it’s the world’s biggest company, ExxonMobil, that has been fingered as the bad guy.
UCS, a non-profit organisation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has published a 68-page report accusing ExxonMobil of exaggerating uncertainties over the causes of global warming. UCS says ExxonMobil has done this by funding 43 bodies critical of claims of…
