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Report: ExxonMobil Spends Millions Funding Global Warming
Skeptics
The Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later Turkey Continues to
Deny the Extermination of a People
Report: ExxonMobil Spends Millions Funding Global
Warming Skeptics
A new investigation by Mother Jones magazine has revealed
that ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million dollars funding
a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming.
We speak with the author of the report, a member of one the
organizations that receives money from Exxon and a journalist
covering environmental and climate change issues.
Today is the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. To commemorate
the occasion we take a look at the debate over global warming.
A new investigation by Mother Jones magazine has revealed
that ExxonMobil has spent at least $8 million dollars funding
a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming.
We are joined on the line from Washington DC by Chris Mooney,
the reporter who broke the story. His article - "Some
Like It Hot" - appears in the May/June issue of Mother
Jones magazine. We are also joined on the line by Myron Ebell
of the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, one of 40 organizations identified in the report
that receives funding from Exxon/Mobil. According to the article,
CEI has received $1,380,000 dollars from Exxon. And on the
line from Massachusetts we have journalist and author Ross
Gelbspan. He also has an article titled "Snowed"
in the latest issue of Mother Jones that explores why the
U.S media pays relatively little attention to the issue of
global climate change.
- Chris Mooney, a freelance writer living in Washington,
D.C., and a senior correspondent for the American
Prospect magazine. He focuses on issues at the intersection
of science and politics. His first book, "The Republican
War on Science will be published in September.
- Ross Gelbspan, journalist and author. As special projects
editor of The Boston Globe, he conceived, directed and edited
a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984.
He is author of "The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle
Over Earth's Threatened Climate."
The Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later Turkey Continues
to Deny the Extermination of a People
This week marks the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide
when more than a million Armenians were exterminated by the
Young Turk government through direct killing, starvation,
torture, and forced death marches. Another million fled into
permanent exile. Almost a century later, Turkey continues
to deny the genocide. We speak with Colgate University professor
Peter Balakian, author of "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian
Genocide and America's Response" and Zanku Armenian of
the Armenian National Committee of America.
This week marks the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
On April 24, 1915, the Young Turk government of the Ottoman
Empire began a systematic premeditated genocide of the Armenian
people - an unarmed Christian minority living under Turkish
rule. More than a million Armenians were exterminated through
direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death marches.
Another million fled into permanent exile. An ancient civilization
was expunged from its homeland of 2,500 years.
Today, almost a century later, the Turkish government continues
to deny this genocide. Books about the genocide are banned
in Turkey and its government funds chairs in Turkish studies
at American universities to ensure a certain version of history
is presented. To this day, Turkey and Armenia do not have
diplomatic relations.
But now, Ankara's ambitions to join the European Union are
in jeopardy. French President Jacques Chirac has said Ankara
must first acknowledge the genocide before being allowed to
become a member of the EU. In response, Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a "impartial study
by historians" concerning the fate of the Armenian people
during World War I.
Today we commemorate the 90th (ninetieth) anniversary of
the Armenian genocide.
- Peter Balakian, author, "The Burning Tigris: The
Armenian Genocide and America's Response." He is also
the Professor of English at Colgate University
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
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