ExxonMobil pays $10,000 for each technical paper that denies global warming?

No. For starters, they do no actual research. Exxon/Mobil spent $39 million n in 2005 to create and disseminate this propaganda. When confronted by the Royal Society (UK) and other scientific bodies, tehy agreed to halt the misinformation campaign. They were recently criticized by Congres for violating that agreement and continuing to put out false information on global warming and climate change.

To be fair, ExxonMobil claims to have stopped funding global warming denial papers (though Greenpeace has disputed that they've actually stopped).

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273692,00.html

This is why it's important to check the background and funding of scientists. Of course, when we do this and find that a skeptical scientist has connections to the oil industry, the deniers complain that we're being mean and attacking the reputations of these scientists.

I don't know what the expect us to do when a scientist is funded by an oil company with an obvious agenda. Pretend he's unbiased?? Deniers seem to want to live in a fantasyworld. Only their few skeptical scientists who are coincidentally funded by oil companies are capable of forming correct conclusions about global warming.

Yeah, and smoking doesn't cause lung cancer either, because scientists funded by Phillip Morris Tobacco Company said so.

This is not true. ExxonMobil stopped funding research a year or two ago.

Some of the best research in 2007 was published by government researchers, including Stephen E. Schwartz at Brookhaven National Lab and Petr Chylek at Los Alamos National Lab. The research by Roy Spencer is also funded by the government because he is one of the keepers of the satellite temperature record.

Certain researchers did take money from ExxonMobil in the past, including Patrick Michaels, Steve Milloy and Fred Singer. That doesn't mean they were wrong, but it did give reasons for people to be suspicious. For that reason, researchers who wanted to be taken seriously refused to take money from energy companies.

Now certain people are trying to use this ancient history to discredit the more important papers that were published this year and completely untainted with energy industry money.

One one side, you have energy companies that fund think tanks, that fund scientists to research one side of the global warming debate......and they are evil. On the other hand you have a group of scientists that are funded by an anti freedom/anti-capitalist group(the U.N.) and they are good. Give me a break. This whole story is biased, and misleading. It is meant to distort the truth(a Newsweek habit). In the late '70's, Time and Newsweek magazines both were on the "global cooling" fear mongering payroll. At that time, any scientist that disputed the "coming ice age" was a shill for the evil energy companies.

From my point of view "big energy" is far more trustworthy than the U.N., or Newsweek for that matter

Yes, now the big question becomes how much to they pay people on these message boards to spread misinformed ideas about global warming?

i relay don't mind if they pay scientists although it seams like a conflict of interest the main issue i have is most deniers use faulty science and flawed logic to get across there point of view. anyone that ever did high school science can see that.

And all the papers that are for global warming are paid $5,000 by GE and the companies who make CFL's.

Ever think about that one?

Climate Change is primarily natural.

www.exxonsecrets.org

But WHY TRUST AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ???

So far I know they are not always the best worlwide and since they live in a highly politicized society in which science funding is done by institutes (themselves financed and politicized) risk to be much more biased.

Take a look at what Japanese and Indian scientists have to say about climate change.

Oh my! And, can you tell me what is the average salary of a mid-level government lab environmental-scientist, plus benes? And, how many papers do you think they write per year?

Where do I sign up?