Royal Society Takes a Shot at ExxonMobil

摘要

The world's oldest scientific society has challenged the world's richest corporation over what it sees as an attempt to confuse people about global wanning. In a sharply worded letter made public last week, the 346-year-old Royal Society criticizes the oil giant ExxonMobil for giving money to "organizations that have been misinforming the public about the science of climate change" and for promoting an "inaccurate and misleading" view, to wit: that scientists do not agree about the influence of human activity on rising temperatures. ExxonMobil issued a rebuttal, and some climate-change skeptics attacked the Royal Society for trying to stifle debate.