Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine the IPCC major climate change report. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute, an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — via Warren Ellis