Abstract
More than 100 scientists are calling on the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to cut financial ties with oil giant ExxonMobil because of allegations that the company misled the public about climate change. In a letter sent last week to the earth and planetary science society’s president, members of the organization and other concerned geoscientists urged AGU to drop ExxonMobil as a sponsor of its annual meeting. ExxonMobil is under investigation in New York and California for allegedly misinforming investors and the public for decades about the links between fossil-fuel use and human-caused climate change. Signatories to the letter include “hockey stick” climate researcher Michael E. Mann, “Merchants of Doubt” author and Harvard University professor Naomi Oreskes, and former director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies James E. Hansen. The scientists call on the society to “protect the integrity of climate science by rejecting the sponsorship of future AGU
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