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The fellow in charge of the American Physical Society’s review of the dangers of anthropogenic global warming has received $20 million for research on the topic and a further $2 million a year from British Petroleum.

Declan McCullough reports:

“The scientist who will head the American Physical Society’s review of its 2007 statement calling for immediate reductions of carbon dioxide is Princeton’s Robert Socolow, a prominent supporter of the link between CO2 and global warming who has warned of possible “catastrophic consequences” of climate change.

“Socolow’s research institute at Princeton has received well over $20 million in grants dealing with climate change and carbon reduction, plus an additional $2 million a year from BP and still more from the federal government. In an interview published by Princeton’s public relations office, Socolow called CO2 a “climate problem” that governments need to address. ”

Any wonder that climate science is becoming a by-word for corruption? And look who is taking money from big oil!