STOP E$$O DAY! 5–6th April

24 hour protest at the offices of Esso called by Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change. www.campaigncc.org and oth­er envi­ron­men­tal groups/

STOP ESSO!
EXPOSE EXXON DAY
24 hours of protest at Exxon (Esso) HQ, 5.00 pm Thurs­day 5th April to 5.00 pm

24 hour protest at the offices of Esso called by Cam­paign against Cli­mate Change. www.campaigncc.org and oth­er envi­ron­men­tal groups/

STOP ESSO!
EXPOSE EXXON DAY
24 hours of protest at Exxon (Esso) HQ, 5.00 pm Thurs­day 5th April to 5.00 pm
Good Fri­day, April 6th
Mass Action 2.00 pm Fri­day
For trans­port from Cardiff to this event, email this address
FAT CATS PARTY
Cli­mate Vic­tims’ Vig­il
Music, Street The­atre, Work­shops, Speak­ers to be announced…..
“CLIMATE DISINFORMATION IS GENOCIDE”

Come and tar­get the ulti­mate Glob­al Warm­ing Vil­lain

April 5th is the day of the release of the “Cli­mate Impacts” sec­tion of the new IPRCC (UN pan­el of sci­en­tists’) Report. Exxon­Mo­bil (trad­ing under the name “Esso” in the UK) Head­quar­ters is South of Lon­don, about 20–30 min­utes walk from Leather­head Rail­way sta­tion (trains from Water­loo). It is North of Leather­head, just inside the M25. For loca­tion see the map here:
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=518050&y=156725&z=4&sv=518050,156725&st=4&ar=Y&dn=856
or for a more close-up map see here :
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=517750&y=156750&z=1&sv=517750,156750&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=516841&ay=156108

More details as they become avail­able :  http://www.campaigncc.org
PLEASE PASS THIS EMAIL AROUND TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE

Exxon is the ulti­mate Glob­al Warm­ing Villain…….

Exxon is the world’s largest oil com­pa­ny, mak­ing $ 1,000+ a sec­ond, and the high­est annu­al prof­its for a com­pa­ny ever, in 2005 ($ 36 billion)…….

Exxon has used its vast wealth to back the Bush admin­is­tra­tion in the US. It has used the influ­ence that that buys it to ensure that the US con­tin­ues to block progress towards an inter­na­tion­al emis­sions reduc­tion treaty – the only real­is­tic way to bring down the glob­al total of green­house gas emis­sions and pre­vent the cat­a­stroph­ic desta­bil­i­sa­tion of glob­al climate…………………….

Exxon funds a vari­ety of right wing, neo-lib­er­al, think tanks like the “Com­pet­i­tive Enter­prise Insti­tute” which lob­by against action to fight cli­mate change, and are influ­en­tial in shap­ing Repub­li­can par­ty policy………

Exxon is the com­pa­ny most close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the cli­mate and ener­gy poli­cies of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion in the US, which are iden­ti­cal to those rec­om­mend­ed by Exxon……….

Exxon has run a cyn­i­cal cam­paign of dis­in­for­ma­tion on cli­mate change, fund­ing a pro­fes­sion­al “denial indus­try” that has – in all prob­a­bil­i­ty — delayed effec­tive glob­al action on cli­mate change by years……………….Some ele­ments of that “indus­try” are iden­ti­cal to those pre­vi­ous­ly fund­ed by the Tobac­co indus­try to under­mine the sci­ence that proved the health dam­age done by smok­ing…..
Exxon has a delib­er­ate pol­i­cy to con­fuse the sci­ence of cli­mate change, exag­ger­ate uncer­tain­ties and under­mine the sci­en­tif­ic con­sen­sus. It funds the tiny minor­i­ty of odd­ball sci­en­tists who ques­tion glob­al warm­ing so that they get huge­ly dis­pro­por­tion­ate media expo­sure and appear to rep­re­sent a sub­stan­tial body of respectable sci­en­tif­ic opinion………

Exxon was even con­demned, in Sep­tem­ber 2006, by the Roy­al Soci­ety for fund­ing bogus science……

Exxon asked the White­house (in a let­ter pub­lished in the New York Times) to remove Bob Wat­son (whose views they did­n’t like) from chair­man­ship of the IPCC (the UN pan­el of cli­mate sci­en­tists) and the White­house did just that…………….

Exxon rec­om­mend­ed that Har­lan Wat­son be appoint­ed as the US chief nego­tia­tor at the UN Cli­mate Talks and the White­house did just that. Wat­son has been wreck­ing the nego­ti­a­tions ever since…………….

Exxon mar­gin­al­ly soft­ened its anti-envi­ron­men­tal stance after the retire­ment of Lee Ray­mond as CEO (now employed by Bush to pro­duce a report giv­ing advice on future ener­gy pol­i­cy !) but con­tin­ues to fund cli­mate dis­in­for­ma­tion and remains the main­stay of the lob­by­ing machine against action on cli­mate – not only in the USA but also Europe – see, eg, this arti­cle from the Inde­pen­dent from Decem­ber 2006 at
 http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2054654.ece

It funds the “Inter­na­tion­al Pol­i­cy Net­work” to argue against action on cli­mate in the UK.
Exxon……etc…etc… ( see fur­ther our web­site  http://www.campaigncc.org/stopexxon.html
US anti-Exxon coali­tion  http://www.exxposeexxon.com/ detailed analy­sis  http://www.exxonsecrets.org/ )

As ever more peo­ple die in droughts, floods and hur­ri­canes — and the world hur­tles ever faster towards cli­mate cat­a­stro­phe — we can­not afford a com­pa­ny that acts the way that Exxon­Mo­bil does….

CardiffCCC@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.campaigncc.org