Who'd of thought it?
[...] in evidence to the UK House of Lords science and technology committee in 2003, Exxon's head of public affairs, Nick Thomas, said: "I think we can say categorically we have not campaigned with the United States government or any other government to take any sort of position over Kyoto."
and yet....
"Potus [president of the United States] rejected Kyoto in part based on input from you [the Global Climate Coalition]," says one briefing note before Ms Dobriansky's [US Undersecretary of state] meeting with the GCC, the main anti-Kyoto US industry group, which was dominated by Exxon.
Full story
here.
and I wonder if this has any links to this;
Washington, DC, United states -- Did conservative elements in the White House provoke an Exxon front group to sue EPA to suppress a report on climate change? That's the question that two State Attorney Generals have asked US Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate, after Greenpeace uncovered a routine email in a Freedom of Information Act request.
The above from a Greenpeace investigation from 2003.
The tectonic plates are moving underneath this maladministration.