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<font size="+1"><i>May 19, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[On target]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Big-investors-pressure-oil-companies-on-climate-12925107.php">Big
investors pressure oil companies on climate change</a></b><a
href="https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Big-investors-pressure-oil-companies-on-climate-12925107.php"><br>
</a>Kelly Gilblom, Bloomberg<br>
Some of the world's biggest fund managers are ratcheting up the
pressure on oil and gas companies, expressing fear that a lack of
action over tackling climate change could risk their investments.<br>
The comments come days before Big Oil kicks off annual shareholder
meetings, where they are already facing calls from smaller investors
to set clear targets on climate change and even cut their
investments in fossil fuels. That could now gain momentum with the
nudge from large investors who manage trillions of dollars of funds.<br>
Companies must take tougher action on emissions if they want to
survive the energy transition and make a success of the Paris
climate deal, according to a letter from a group of investors,
including Standard Life Aberdeen Plc and Legal & General Group
Plc, which together oversee about $10.4 trillion of funds. They plan
to take up the issue with the world's biggest oil companies at their
upcoming AGMs, the investors said in the letter published in the
Financial Times on Friday...<br>
- - -- <br>
The investor letter also said there could be increased regulation on
carbon, creating extra costs for the companies. The impact on the
environment could become serious enough to leave some oil and gas
fields stranded and uneconomical to exploit.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Big-investors-pressure-oil-companies-on-climate-12925107.php">https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Big-investors-pressure-oil-companies-on-climate-12925107.php</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[in court]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/05/15/shell-climate-suit-conservation-law-foundation/">Shell
Documents Provide a New Boost for Climate Lawsuit in Rhode
Island</a></b><br>
When the Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent dug up
a trove of internal documents from the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell
and published them last month, some of the most interested readers
hailed from the Conservation Law Foundation, a New England-based
nonprofit dedicated to protecting the climate and environment. CLF
had filed a lawsuit last year alleging Shell knew about the dangers
of climate change, but was not protecting the waters and communities
around Providence Terminal from climate impacts. Among the new
documents revealed by Mommers was one that showed Shell predicting
those impacts to its own facilities and even predicting future
litigation over it. The company was prophetic, but still didn't do
much to prevent those impacts. CLF alleges that storm runoff has
increased because of climate change-fueled extreme weather and
routinely pollutes the waters around Providence Terminal. One of the
more interesting aspects of the lawsuit is its potential to spark
more of them: Hurricane Harvey, for one, inundated countless
petrochemical facilities and doused areas of Houston in air and
water pollution following the storm. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/05/15/shell-climate-suit-conservation-law-foundation/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/05/15/shell-climate-suit-conservation-law-foundation/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[distractions]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/18/scientists-answer-wall-streets-sea-level-nonsense/">Scientists
Answer Wall Street's Sea Level Nonsense</a></b><br>
May 18, 2018<br>
So much stupidity on display at the<span> </span><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/17/wall-street-journal-congress-break-physics-with-new-theories-of-sea-level-rise/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(85, 119, 153);
text-decoration: none;">Wall Street Journal, and in congress, on
sea level rise.</a><br>
Fortunately, there is help.<br>
<a
href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-commentary-grossly-misleads-readers-about-science-of-sea-level-rise-fred-singer/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(85, 119, 153);
text-decoration: none;">Climate Feedback:</a><br>
<blockquote>This commentary published by The Wall Street Journal,
written by Fred Singer, claims that warming (and therefore
greenhouse gas emissions) has no effect on global sea level rise.
Although Singer concedes the physical fact that water expands as
its temperature increases, he claims that this process must be
offset by growth of Antarctic ice sheets...<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=blMZobIAAAAJ&hl=en">Chris
Roberts</a>, Research Scientist, ECMWF/Met Office:<br>
This article severely misrepresents the scientific understanding
of the processes responsible for observed changes in global sea
level. Understanding and attributing the causes of changes in
global sea level is an area of active research and there are
genuine uncertainties, but there is a clear consensus on the
important roles for ocean thermal expansion and addition of mass
to the oceans from melting glaciers and ice caps during recent
decades...<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pik-potsdam.de/%7Estefan/">Stefan Rahmstorf</a>,
Professor, Potsdam University:<br>
The article has almost nothing to do with the modern state of
sea-level science. The author tries to call into question that
global warming causes sea-level rise, and does so by
cherry-picking a short segment of data from 1915-1945, a time when
data quality is poor and the warming signal small—a bizarre
approach that could never pass scientific peer review and is
apparently aimed at misleading a lay audience.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ase.ntu.edu.sg/content/keven-roy">Keven Roy</a>,
Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University:<br>
This article is misleading, and presents inaccurate statements
about global mean sea level rise.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.earthobservatory.sg/research-group/sea-level-research">Benjamin
Horton</a>, Professor, Earth Observatory of Singapore:<br>
If this were an essay in one of my undergraduate classes, he would
fail... <br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">More at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/18/scientists-answer-wall-streets-sea-level-nonsense/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/18/scientists-answer-wall-streets-sea-level-nonsense/</a></font><br>
- - -<br>
[insignificance on parade]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/republican-congressman-mo-brooks-sea-level-rise-rocks">Republican
congressman explains sea-level rise: it's rocks falling into the
sea</a></b><br>
Mo Brooks rejects notion that global warming is causing sea levels
to increase, and says: 'What about the White Cliffs of Dover?'<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/republican-congressman-mo-brooks-sea-level-rise-rocks">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/republican-congressman-mo-brooks-sea-level-rise-rocks</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[momentum bias]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebulletin.org/2018/may/psychology-miami%E2%80%99s-struggle-adapt-sea-level-rise11767">The
psychology of Miami's struggle to adapt to sea-level rise</a></b><br>
G. A. Treuer<br>
Florida's Miami-Dade County is extremely vulnerable to rising seas,
and its options for adaptation are limited. One of the biggest
challenges facing residents of the region is to overcome
psychological barriers to climate action. Humans have natural biases
that favor the present over the future, strongly held opinions over
new information, and certainty over uncertainty. These biases make
it easy for people to learn from experience, but difficult for them
to imagine and internalize future threats such as sea-level rise.
Nevertheless, South Florida is moving forward with plans to address
sea-level rise through new investments, climate change projections,
and partnerships. These are hopeful signs that Miami and other
communities are coming to rely on the best available science, rather
than on past experience, to cope with sea-level rise.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebulletin.org/2018/may/psychology-miami%E2%80%99s-struggle-adapt-sea-level-rise11767">https://thebulletin.org/2018/may/psychology-miami%E2%80%99s-struggle-adapt-sea-level-rise11767</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Psychiatric Times asks:]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/can-we-prescribe-resilience">Can
We Prescribe Resilience?</a></b><br>
J. Eric Vance, MD<br>
May 16, 2018<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/can-we-prescribe-resilience">Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy, Neuropsychiatry</a><br>
Common psychosocial protective factors<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/sites/default/files/psy0518_20.jpg">TABLE.
Common psychosocial protective factor</a>s <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/sites/default/files/psy0518_20.jpg">http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/sites/default/files/psy0518_20.jpg</a><br>
It is time for the psychiatric and wider medical world to embrace
lessons from the growing science of resilience to treat the wide
range of stress-related medical and psychiatric disorders more
effectively. Quite often, physicians admonish patients to lower
their stress levels, while patients quietly wonder how a lifetime of
adversity can be undone, or how to extricate themselves from
stressful jobs, relationships, or living environments. In these
clinical situations, clinicians need to be prepared to offer
concrete suggestions to build protective factors for resilience,
rather than presuming that patients can magically get rid of their
stressors.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/can-we-prescribe-resilience">http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/can-we-prescribe-resilience</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Classic 101 climate lesson]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/gZbeNI-6gZ0"><b>The
History of Climate Science by Spencer Weart (2013</b>)</a><br>
Climate State<br>
Published on Apr 13, 2017<br>
In this brief talk, Spencer Weart (Director Emeritus, Center for the
History of Physics, AIP), outlines the history of climate science,
with the scope on the public perception. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://aip.org/history/climate">http://aip.org/history/climate</a><br>
AGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science: A Historic
Look to the Future<br>
08 June 2013 — 13 June 2013, Granby, CO, USA<br>
Presenter: Spencer Weart<br>
Sunday, June 9, 2013, 8:25 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.<br>
Session: Perspectives on Communication of the Climate Science I<br>
Abstract Title: History of Relations Among Climate Scientists,
Policy-makers and the Public in the 20th Century<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZbeNI-6gZ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZbeNI-6gZ0</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Desmog Blog]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-uiiuuhy-dkhtjdmh-yh/">Friend
of Mike Pence and a Coal-Funded Lawyer Form 'Accountability'
Group to Attack Climate Lawsuits</a></b><br>
For a group apparently hooked on transparency, the latest
organization to spring from the loins of the fossil fuel–funded
climate science denial industry certainly manages to obscure one or
two pertinent facts.<br>
Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO) — the name of the
group given public charity status on March 20, 2018 by the Internal
Revenue Service — is promising to publish documents about the people
and groups behind ongoing court cases against the energy industry
and its impact on the global climate.<br>
“We're not going to get into the science debate and other arguments.
We'll just show the public the documents, so you can decide,” lawyer
Chris Horner told a sympathetic Daily Caller about GAO's Climate
Litigation Watch (CLW) project. <br>
Behind the group are three lawyers — one a Republican-elected
district attorney, another a former radio host and “longtime friend”
of Vice President Mike Pence, and Horner, who has been paid by coal
companies and works at the fossil fuel–funded Competitive Enterprise
Institute.<br>
While apparently not wanting to “get into the science debate,”
Climate Litigation Watch says the science linking fossil fuel
producers to climate change is “dubious” — a position at odds with
every major scientific academy on the planet.<br>
So, who are these characters behind the GAO and its sole project,
Climate Litigation Watch?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-uiiuuhy-dkhtjdmh-yh/">http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-uiiuuhy-dkhtjdmh-yh/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Arctic theater]<font size="-1"><br>
</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2018/05/anti-submarine-exercise-kicks-norwegian-sea">U.S.
leads anti-submarine exercise in Norwegian Sea</a></b><br>
Five NATO countries participate with both navy vessels and
surveillance aircrafts.<br>
Thomas Nilsen<br>
May 14, 2018<br>
Increasing Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic makes
NATO countries more on the alert and focused on allied exercising.
This week, the U.S. 6th Fleet leads an anti-submarine drill designed
to enhance interoperability and tactical proficiencies.<br>
The exercise takes place in the waters off the coast of Nordland,
Northern Norway.<br>
Participating countries are additional to Norway and the USA,
Canada, France and the UK.<br>
Norway's frigate KNM "Helge Ingstad" sails together with one U.S.
Navy attack submarine, a Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and navy
vessels from the other countries. In the air, maritime surveillance
aircrafts Orion from Norway and a P-8A Poseidon from the U.S. take
part.<br>
"This exercise is a key opportunity for U.S. and allied partners to
practice anti-submarine warfare skills in a tactically challenging
environment," <a
href="http://www.c6f.navy.mil/news/us-asw-exercise-begins-norwegian-sea"
target="_blank">says Capt. Roger E. Mayer</a>, commander of Taske
Force 69 with the U.S. 6th Fleet.<br>
Last June year, 10 NATO countries took part in a <a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2017/06/nato-trains-anti-submarine-warfare-northern-waters">large-scale
anti-submarine exercise</a> in the waters near Iceland. During a
NATO naval exercise outside Tromso, Northern Norway last May, a
group of 12 Russian aircrafts were flying tactical flights in what <a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2018/03/oslo-such-behavior-does-not-promote-good-neighborly-relations">could
have been a mock attack</a> on the naval vessels.<br>
Earlier in May, government officials from Norway and the United
Kingdom discussed how to develop a better cooperation on maritime
patrol aircrafts in the North Atlantic, <a
href="http://www.janes.com/article/79954/uk-and-norway-plan-anti-submarine-co-operation">Jane's</a>
reports. A question is how the two countries can conduct
maintenance, training and operations of the new fleet of P-8A
Poseidon aircrafts they both are procuring. Norway has <a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2016/11/norway-acquires-five-new-maritime-patrol-aircrafts-arctic-waters">decided
to buy five</a> of the new P-8A Poseidon to be based at Evenes
airport in northern Norway.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2018/05/anti-submarine-exercise-kicks-norwegian-sea">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2018/05/anti-submarine-exercise-kicks-norwegian-sea</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[activism]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://civic.mit.edu/2018/05/14/natural-disasters-and-environmental-events/">http://civic.mit.edu/2018/05/14/natural-disasters-and-environmental-events/</a><br>
This is a call for people who are working to cultivate
resilience in their communities in the face of crises, especially
given the intensification of natural disasters caused by climate
change. <br>
Please join us in Newark NJ for our "Crisis Convening,"
beginning on July 13th and running through July 14-15th at Public
Lab's summer gathering. <br>
We are a network of people with experience in collaborative
response to crises such as Sandy, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the like.
At this “Crisis Convening,” we will gather between 30-60 people with
such experiences to share skills and lessons learned, consider ways
to more intentionally promote equity and justice through modern
crisis response, and build resources to support this work.<br>
<br>
Here is our key question: <br>
In times of crisis, how can disaster response efforts (from
formal 'crisis response institutions,' to emergent networks of
volunteers, to remote 'digital responders') be more adaptive,
equitable, and accountable to vulnerable communities? <br>
<font color="#000000"><i>What you can do:</i></font><br>
<ol>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b><font color="#000000">Read more<span> </span><a
href="http://civic.mit.edu/2018/05/14/natural-disasters-and-environmental-events/"
target="_blank">in this blog post</a>.</font></b></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b><font color="#000000">Indicate
your interest in attending<span> </span><a
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWDepJWMViDsLyZbGZY2ime9gWQsCPyJwBKHKt9xWVwAMuDg/viewform"
target="_blank">here</a>.</font></b></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Support our
efforts to ensure the participation of people from communities
who have been most impacted, and who would not otherwise have
the resources to participate.<span> </span><b><a
href="https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/3nIwYjmBXz_DdcttqymIuw"
target="_blank">Please contribute</a><span> </span>to help
with travel and accommodation costs for key participants.</b></font></li>
</ol>
<br>
[from Oxfam]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://policy-practice.oxfamamerica.org/publications/mitigating-poverty-and-climate-change/">Mitigating
poverty and climate change: How reducing short-lived climate
pollutants can support pro-poor, sustainable development</a></b><br>
Reducing emissions of methane, black carbon, and other short-lived
climate pollutants is critical to poverty alleviation and
development, and provides fast-action solutions to address climate
change.<br>
- - - -<br>
These outcomes include, among others, enhanced food and water
security; improved health and productivity; greater livelihood
resiliency, particularly in rural communities; creating
socio-economic opportunities for women; and access to cleaner
sources of energy.<br>
<font size="-1">more at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://policy-practice.oxfamamerica.org/publications/mitigating-poverty-and-climate-change/">https://policy-practice.oxfamamerica.org/publications/mitigating-poverty-and-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Activism from Christinge Pelosi CA]<br>
Climate lovers, join me in getting #OilMoneyOut and more grassroots
power in the Democratic National Committee!<br>
Knowing of the corrosive link between fossil fuel pollution and
systemic environmental health dangers and in support of the ongoing
campaign finance reform effort to rid our politics of corporate PAC
dollars in favor of people-powered grassroots activism, I have
submitted the following #OilMoneyOut Resolution to the Democratic
National Committee in advance of our June 2018 DNC Executive
Committee meeting.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://medium.com/@sfpelosi/climate-lovers-join-me-in-getting-oilmoneyout-of-the-democratic-national-committee-e3fb54087a06">DNC
RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING OUR PRO-ENVIRONMENT PLATFORM, ENCOURAGING
GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM, AND REJECTING DONORS FROM THE FOSSIL FUEL
INDUSTRY</a></b><br>
WHEREAS, we Democrats have the opportunity to reform and revive our
party by empowering diverse grassroots Democrats at the leadership
table and in our communities including building on our recent
successes with small donor fundraising programs; and...<br>
- - - - <br>
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Democratic National Committee
acts to revive trust in our Party by reaffirming our progressive,
pro-environment 2016 Platform, encouraging grassroots donors, and
rejecting donors from the fossil fuel industry that conflict with
our DNC Platform in order to empower Democrats to walk our talk in
harmony with our stated beliefs and convictions.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@sfpelosi/climate-lovers-join-me-in-getting-oilmoneyout-of-the-democratic-national-committee-e3fb54087a06">https://medium.com/@sfpelosi/climate-lovers-join-me-in-getting-oilmoneyout-of-the-democratic-national-committee-e3fb54087a06</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[An oh shit, study...]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017EF000805">Sea
Level Rise Impacts on Wastewater Treatment Systems Along the
U.S. Coasts</a></b><br>
Michelle A. Hummel Matthew S. Berry Mark T. Stacey<br>
Plain Language Summary<br>
<blockquote>Wastewater treatment plants are susceptible to flooding
resulting from sea level rise. Previous estimates of wastewater
exposure have only considered the impacts of marine flooding at
the local or regional scale. In this analysis, we quantify the
exposure to marine flooding across the coastal United States and
then consider the relative impacts of marine and groundwater
flooding at the regional scale in the San Francisco Bay Area. We
also estimate the number of people who may lose access to
wastewater services if no actions are taken to prevent flooding at
wastewater treatment plants. We find that the number of people
impacted by sea level rise due to loss of wastewater services
could be five times as high as previous predictions of the number
of people who experience direct flooding of their homes or
property. We also find that groundwater flooding poses a
significant threat to wastewater plants in the San Francisco Bay
region.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017EF000805">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017EF000805</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[1969 cultural opinion alive today]<br>
The day after Woodstock 1969 - Jefferson Airplane and Joni Mitchell
and Stephen Stills appearing on the Dick Cavett TV show. Most
interesting was a brief comment David Crosby made <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/wR_2uhWb5eU?t=34m28s">https://youtu.be/wR_2uhWb5eU?t=34m28s</a>
<br>
<p> </p>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>Dick Cavett</b>: Is there anything we
left out? anybody? anything anybody wants to say or rap about? <br>
You kids are there at least a million...anything that we can use
on the air? <br>
Anything you've always wanted to say on television that nobody
ever gave you the chance to..? <br>
<b>David Crosby:</b> yes yes I got one... <br>
<b>Cavett:</b> What am i doing!? They just passed out in the
executive room up there (laughter)<br>
<b>Crosby:</b> I got one and I don't even think it's wrong ...okay
well like the air that we're all breathing is not clean...<br>
Right, you're aware that everybody, anybody looks up... <br>
consider the only way to solve it seems to be to convince GM,
Ford, Chrysler, 76, Union, Shell, and Standard <br>
to go out of business ...which is merely a setup for the punchline
which is "fat chance"<br>
<b>Cavett:</b> Yeah specially because four of them are my
sponsors (laughter) we'll be back another season ...</blockquote>
It tells us how media sponsorship has managed to prevent free
expression and open consideration of carbon emissions - something
that continues to this day. <br>
This is the earliest mention I found of that most pernicious type of
censorship..something that has been nurtured and managed for the
past 5 decades. <br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - May 19, 2008 - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
May 19, 2008: The Guardian reports:<br>
<blockquote>"A shareholder revolt at ExxonMobil led by the
billionaire Rockefeller family has won the support of four
significant British institutional investors who will call on
Monday for a shakeup in the governance of the world's biggest oil
company.<br>
<br>
"Guardian.co.uk has learned that F&C Asset Management, Morley
Fund Management, the Co-Operative Insurance Society and the West
Midlands Pension Fund are throwing their weight behind a
resolution demanding that ExxonMobil appoints an independent
chairman to stimulate debate on the company's board.<br>
<br>
"Exxon is facing a rebellion from its investors over its hardline
approach to global warming. The firm has refused to follow rival
oil companies in committing large-scale capital investment to
environmentally friendly technology such as wind and solar power.<br>
<br>
"The Rockefeller dynasty, whose ancestor John D. Rockefeller
founded the original oil business at the core of ExxonMobil, have
sponsored four shareholder resolutions demanding changes at Exxon.
One of these calls on Exxon's chief executive Rex Tillerson, to
relinquish his role as chairman in favour of an outsider to bring
in an alternative point of view."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/may/19/exxonmobil.oil">http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/may/19/exxonmobil.oil</a>
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