Wobbly Universe

I have commented before that some of the material about climate change does appear to have ulterior motives. Now it is clear that this is true and that the scientific world is being seriously compromised and needs to be on guard. It is essential that governments make laws to punish very seriously companies and individuals that are involved in campaigns of disinformation. This applies equally to climate research and medical drugs and medicines and anywhere else that people act from greed.

Last night, 16th August 2007, I was reading the 13th January 2007 issue of New Scientist, and I came across an article on page 14 that explained at least some of the things that have caused me problems in investigating the facts of climate change. The article states that between 1998 and 2005 ExxonMobil spent US$16,000,000 on funding research at 43 bodies that were critical of claims of climate change, such as Frontiers of Freedom in the apparent expectation that these groups will propagate disinformation about global warming even when what they are publicising has been shown to be wrong.

In 1998 ExxonMobil-sponsored promoted a report that said that carbon dioxide emissions posed no warming threat. The report was authored by, amoung others, Slly Baliunas, an astrophysicist affiliated with at least nine ExxonMobil funded groups. In 2003 Baliunas published a review paper in Climate Research (vol 23, p 89) claiming that the climate had not changed significantly in the past millenium. Her conclusions were challenged by 13 scientists whose work she cited, but ExxonMobil-funded groups have continued to promote it.

Based on this my previous quotations of articles by Sally Baliunas should be treated with great suspicion.