As many WUWT readers know, I attended the AGU fall meeting and I have a number of posts coming up that will highlight many of the posters and sessions that I attended. I have some video interviews in the bag also that I’ll be posting. Right now, I’m playing catch up at work.
However, this bit of a surprise juxtaposition was sent to me by WUWT regular “Jabba the cat” and is worth highlighting, because I’m pretty sure that if skeptics had a conference with these sponsors, we’d be vociferously vilified with sponsors like these.
Those with high climate sensitivity should avert your eyes from the following image.
Don’t believe me?
Have a look for yourself: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/general-information/thank-you-to-our-sponsors/
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So when the alarmist see this “Big Oil” will be responsible for The Big Boil?
This looks like a case of greenmail.
No wonder you are always waiting for your Big Oil cheque – the opposition got there first.
A pension fund of mine.
I hope they know what they’re doing . . . . .
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Duh, guess who wins when gas costs $5 a gallon.
That’s called “public relations” and the amount of money those large energy companies spend on such sponsorship activity (and on eco-friendly TV ads) is a negligible rounding error in their budgets. Of course the irony you allude to is that the AGU openly accepts their money. I suppose it’s akin to an Amazon headhunter displaying his trophies.
This post did not pick up on the sponsorship of Schlumberger, probably the major supporter of oilfield services in the world. If virtually anyone drills anywhere in the world Schlumberger can help and has provided excellent technical and other support services for at least 50 years to my knowledge. A fine company by the way.
elmer says:
December 17, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Duh, guess who wins when gas costs $5 a gallon.
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The oil companies AND the Kleptocrats. Win – Win.
Big Oil never looses. The new Carbon Tax proposals could concieveably raise the price of Gas by 300%
Big Oil would still rake in their 4% per US gallon. We would just be stuck with $12-15 USD per gallon where it is now $4.
Anthony, they also list Schlumberger, which is “the world’s largest oilfield services company”.
Oops, F.A.H. said the same thing.
So that’s why all my Big Oil cheques dried out…
tsk tsk!!
It’s called Green Washing. Otherwise it’s “crap” according to David Cameron.
Thanks Anthony.
As always …. Follow the money!
As an aside I wonder how many WUWT readers are familiar with the origin of the phrase “going postal” in Antony’s title? see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal
British Petroleum is green because this color is emblematic of ideology as profit.
Of course they want to have coal regulated out of the market. With no competition it is much easier to make profits.
Must… stop… grinning…
OK. I give up – GRIN
Just shills for Big Oil!
Big oil sponsors it to puff it up bigger and higher and make it more visible so that when it (CAGW theory) inevitably crashes and burns it (the crash) will be more visible and memorable and thus less likely to be embraced again for a long time to come.
Shall we say there is a certain class of people in the world with a certain sort of ideology that pretty much always point at you and accuse you of everything they’re actually doing.
And there we are again.
The CRU was founded with BP money. So this has always been known.
I am curious why these companies provide sponorship for individuals/groups/conferences that oppose thier very existence?
Fracking is a mere extension of old school established interests, whereas green banking schemes are a brand new boom that all energy companies and energy start-ups are skimming as the government becomes more and more a mirror of Enron. Alas for them, Mother Nature is now bursting their bubble in ways that afford skeptics much greater cultural authority.
Does that make Michael Mann a fossil fuel funded amateur?