Since 1989 previously skeptical oil and automobile industry corporations have changed their coats as the political and scientific consensus has grown. The creation of the Kyoto Protocol and the publication of the International Panel on Climate Change’s Second and Third Assessment Reports seems to have changed their ways. Some of these corporations have joined up with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change which is a non-profit organisation that is striving to support efforts that are addressing global warming.
USCAP, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership which was formed in January of this year,2007, with a primary goal to influence the United States government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Members included Alcoa, General Motors, Natural Resources Defense Council plus others, joining in April of this year were ConocoPhilips along with AIG.
Exxon Mobil has been a leading funder of global warming skeptical organisations. At least 40 organisations that have been trying undermine scientific findings dealing with global warming are reportedly funded by ExxonMobil or affiliations between both have been maintained and seem to work with skeptic scientists and they continued up until 2002 and possibly could be still involved in these skeptical practises. Between 2000 and 2003 these organizations reportedly received more than $8m in funding. Exxon also reportedly influenced the Bush administration's energy policy, supported by $55m spent on lobbying government since 1999 and direct contacts between the company and leading politicians.
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