this is what the royal society has to say about climate change and the arguments put forward against it:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/downloaddoc.asp?id=1630 they certainly see the us oil industry's opposition to kyoto etc as being key to the 'research' findings they present.
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So, this free speech thing - you for it, or agin it?
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well like most things its more complex than that ;-) of course i favour free speech but its also quite clear that not everbody has the same resource with which to communicate their message. in this instance exxon has the resources to both fund organisations (which the rs say are pseudo scientific) and promote the anti-climate change messages which they generate.
in an ideal world freedom of speech would be matched by equal access to communication of that speech. an impossible dream obviously but im sure yoi can see the point im making in that those with power and/or money can reach more people than humble mortals like me and you.
this is, though, another debate :-)