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>AEI en big oil boden geld om klimaatrapport te ondermijnen

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>Ayaan Hirsi Megan’s huidige werkgever, het neo-conservatieve American Enterprise Institute (AEI), heeft pogingen ondernomen om klimaatwetenschappers en economen tegen betaling het omstreden klimaatrapport van het Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPPC) onderuit te laten halen.

Ze boden de betalingen, $10000 elk, aan als men artikelen zou schrijven die de bevindingen in het rapport zouden ondermijnen. Pikant is dat de AEI nauwe banden onderhoudt met zowel president Bush als olie-gigant ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil betaalde de AEI meer dan $1.6 miljoen, en zo’n twintig consultants van de AEI werkten voor de Bush-administratie. In The Guardian het volledige, engelstalige artikel:

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 a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 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 (IPCC).

Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.

The UN report was written by international experts and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012. World governments were given a draft last year and invited to comment.

The AEI has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI’s board of trustees. Lees verder