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George C. Marshall Institute

Washington, DC 20006

[The following is from the Center for Science in the Public Interest's website]

The Marshall Institute investigates facts concerning global climate change. The Institute also studies the implications of the Kyoto Protocol upon national security. The Institute is partially supported by the Exxon Education Foundation and American Standard Companies.

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ExxonSecrets.org
February 2, 2019

From ExxonSecrets.org: Fact Sheet: George C. Marshall Institute

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=36

Union of Concerned Scientists
January 2, 2007

Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html

Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, Create Confusion

ExxonMobil-funded organizations consist of an overlapping collection of individuals serving as staff, board members, and scientific advisors that publish and re-publish the works of a small group of climate change contrarians. The George C. Marshall Institute, for instance, which has received $630,000 from ExxonMobil, recently touted a book edited by Patrick Michaels, a long-time climate change contrarian who is affiliated with at least 11 organizations funded by ExxonMobil. Similarly, ExxonMobil funds a number of lesser-known groups such as the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy and Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. Both groups promote the work of several climate change contrarians, including Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist who is affiliated with at least nine ExxonMobil-funded groups.

The Guardian, UK
January 26, 2005

Oil firms fund climate change 'denial'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1399585,00.html

...Last month the Scientific Alliance published a joint report with the George C Marshall Institute in Washington that claimed to "undermine" climate change claims. The Marshall institute received £51,000 from ExxonMobil for its "global climate change programme" in 2003 and an undisclosed sum this month...

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