Need $10,000? Loss of integrity not a problem? Send us your report - Experience not necessary Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.
Need some cash? Aren't really a qualified scientist but willing to pretend to be one? Win $10,000 and an all expenses paid trip just for writing dissenting views on peer-reviewed science. Untested and non-scientific views welcome.
Please send all inquiries to ExxonMobil, Corp., I mean, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). All applications accepted. Please hurry.
