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Oh, What a Tangled Web...

The secret's out! Climate skeptics funded by ExxonMobil can no longer hide behind front groups. Our new website, www.exxonsecrets.org, exposes the links between ExxonMobil money and the think tanks, associations and individuals denying global warming. The next time you read a story that says climate change is all smoke and mirrors, visit www.exxonsecrets.org and search for the organization or person being quoted. There's a good chance that ExxonMobil money has paid up front for that front group.

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Urging the Oil and Auto Industries to Support the Kyoto Protocol

Over 10,000 activists world wide have written to the Ford Motor Company asking the company to publically support the Kyoto Treaty.

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U.S. Withdraws From Kyoto Protocol

Almost immediately after he declared his administration would not require industry to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, President Bush delivered another blow to the world's climate by refusing to support the global warming treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol.

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Polar Bears Dream of a White Christmas

Up in the far north, we're facing the prospect of an Arctic without ice. Polar bears extinct in the wild. Mass starvation of reindeer. And as a result of their snowy world melting, the possibility of a global sea-level rise of devastating proportions. It sounds like a disaster film made for Hollywood, but unless we act quickly to stop global warming, it will be front-page news.

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International Task Force Confirms Need for Action on Global Warming Now

Today, the International Climate Task Force, headed by U.S. Republican Olympia Snowe and UK Labor Member of Parliament Stephen Byers, released its report "Meeting the Climate Challenge: Recommendations of the International Climate Change Task Force." The report provides further evidence that global warming is occurring now and poses grave dangers for our planet.

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The Kyoto Protocol: Victory for Planet Earth

Greenpeace activists, supporters and volunteers around the world celebrated the coming into force of the Kyoto Protocol with banners, windmills and actions against dirty power. After more than 10 years of exhausting negotiations, 35 industrialized countries are now legally bound to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions. The most notable exception to the agreement: the United States.

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