Earth Equity News

Climate Change Skeptics Gather in NYC. By Andrew C. Revkin, NYTimes, March 8, 2009. "Self-professed climate skeptics are meeting in a Times Square hotel this week to challenge what has become a broad scientific and political consensus: that without big changes in energy choices, humans will dangerously heat up the planet. The three-day International Conference on Climate Change -- organized by the Heartland Institute, a nonprofit group seeking deregulation and unfettered markets -- brings together political figures, conservative campaigners, scientists, an Apollo astronaut and the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus... large corporations like Exxon Mobil, which in the past financed the Heartland Institute and other groups that challenged the climate consensus, have reduced support... A spokesman for Exxon Mobil, said by e-mail that the company had ended support 'to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.'" Monbiot's Top 10 Climate Change Deniers. By George Monbiot, Guardian (UK), March 10, 2009. "With the Heartland Institute's annual jamboree for climate deniers in full swing in New York here's my shortlist of people who have done most for the denialist cause -- in playing card form."