The UK Guardian is reporting here that the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative thinktank sponsored in part by ExxonMobil, is offering a $10,000 dollar “honoraria” to scientists if they will agree to critique certain policy implications of the new UN report on climate change. Sounds suspiciously like a bribe.

Leaked by a professor who recieved a letter from the institute, you can read a copy of the solicitation here. Since 1998 AEI has received $1,625,000 in donations from ExxonMobil.

Learn more about Exxon’s attempts at greenwashing its image here. Learn about Exxon’s funding of professional climate change skeptics here.

 

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