Yeah. It's not a secret. But maybe people need to have it chronicled and reported.A Greenpeace undercover investigation has exposed how fossil fuel companies can secretly pay academics at leading American universities to write research that sows doubt about climate science and promotes the companies’ commercial interests.
EnergyDesk/Greenpeace
What I mean is, when a corporation or company funds a university department or gives grants to a university researcher, that company owns the data. If they don't like the results, they can either have it analyzed in a way that favors their position, or they can simply not allow it to be published.
This bit of subterfuge, however, exposes another avenue.
These "experts" then testify before Congress on behalf of the company who paid them.Posing as representatives of oil and coal companies, reporters from Greenpeace UK asked academics from Princeton and Penn State to write papers promoting the benefits of CO2 and the use of coal in developing countries.
The professors agreed to write the reports and said they did not need to disclose the source of the funding.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.The investigation raises further questions for coal giant Peabody Energy, which earlier this year was investigated by New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman over accusations that they violated New York laws prohibiting false and misleading conduct, in relation to misleading statements on the risks it could face from tightening climate change laws. Peabody have now agreed to change the way it reports the risks posed to investors by climate change.
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The company paid $8,000 for Professor Happer to make the case on the social costs of carbon.
Other prominent climate sceptics who provided testimony in the Minnesota hearing on behalf of Peabody included: Roy Spencer who told Greenpeace he was paid $4,000 by Peabody.
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