UK noble to senators: Apologize to Exxon or resign

RAW STORY
Published: Monday December 18, 2006

A member of the United Kingdom's nobility, who is also a vocal skeptic of global warming, has called on two senators to apologize to oil giant ExxonMobil or resign from the US Senate, RAW STORY has learned.

In a lengthy letter dated December 11th, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley criticized Senators Jay Rockefeller (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R -ME) for a letter they sent to ExxonMobil. In the letter, Rockefeller and Snowe compared the major oil company's funding of scientists skeptical of global climate change caused by human activities to the tobacco industry's support of discredited science questioning the link between cigarette smoking and negative health effects. They also told ExxonMobil that no credible scientific study in recent years doubted the connection between anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and changes to the planet's climate.

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