L’association am\u00e9ricaine Union of Concerned Scientist (UCS) publie un important rapport sur les agissements de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Exxon en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9sinformation dans le domaine du r\u00e9chauffement climatique. Le rapport vient d’\u00eatre mis en ligne<\/a> et documente une action que l’UCS apparente \u00e0 l’action de d\u00e9sinformation des compagnies de tabac portant sur l’effet nocif du tabac.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tExxon a investi $16 millions entre 1998 et 2005, aupr\u00e8s de 43 organisations, pour alimenter un travail g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de d\u00e9sinformation dans le domaine des recherches sur le r\u00e9chauffement climatique. La diffusion du document de l’UCS, qui est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans un communiqu\u00e9<\/a> de l’association, constitue un \u00e9v\u00e9nement important. L’association est connue pour son s\u00e9rieux et le document qu’elle publie vient \u00e0 son heure, alors qu’une mobilisation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale est lanc\u00e9e au niveau des gouvernements et du monde scientifique pour lutter contre l’aggravation tr\u00e8s rapide de la crise climatique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tExtraits du communiqu\u00e9 de l’UCS, qui est repris par Reuters<\/a> (par l’interm\u00e9diaire de News.Scotsman<\/em>) et par AP<\/a> (par Business Week<\/em>) :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abA new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry’s disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer, said Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Director of Strategy & Policy. A modest but effective investment has allowed the oil giant to fuel doubt about global warming to delay government action just as Big Tobacco did for over 40 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSmoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Change details how the oil company, like the tobacco industry in previous decades, has<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb raised doubts about even the most indisputable scientific evidence ;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb funded an array of front organizations to create the appearance of a broad platform for a tight-knit group of vocal climate change contrarians who misrepresent peer-reviewed scientific findings ;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb attempted to portray its opposition to action as a positive quest for sound science rather than business self-interest used its access to the Bush administration to block federal policies and shape government communications on global warming.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbExxonMobil-funded organizations consist of an overlapping collection of individuals serving as staff, board members, and scientific advisors that publish and re-publish the works of a small group of climate change contrarians. The George C. Marshall Institute, for instance, which has received $630,000 from ExxonMobil, recently touted a book edited by Patrick Michaels, a long-time climate change contrarian who is affiliated with at least 11 organizations funded by ExxonMobil. Similarly, ExxonMobil funds a number of lesser-known groups such as the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy and Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. Both groups promote the work of several climate change contrarians, including Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist who is affiliated with at least nine ExxonMobil-funded groups.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBaliunas is best known for a 2003 paper alleging the climate had not changed significantly in the past millennia that was rebutted by 13 scientists who stated she had misrepresented their work in her paper. This renunciation did not stop ExxonMobil-funded groups from continuing to promote the paper. Through methods such as these, ExxonMobil has been able to amplify and prop up work that has been discredited by reputable climate scientists.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhen one looks closely, ExxonMobil’s underhanded strategy is as clear and indisputable as the scientific research it’s meant to discredit, said Seth Shulman, an investigative journalist who wrote the UCS report. The paper trail shows that, to serve its corporate interests, ExxonMobil has built a vast echo chamber of seemingly independent groups with the express purpose of spreading disinformation about global warming.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 4 janvier 2007 \u00e0 17H21<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L’association am\u00e9ricaine Union of Concerned Scientist (UCS) publie un important rapport sur les agissements de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Exxon en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9sinformation dans le domaine du r\u00e9chauffement climatique. 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