CRU initial sponsors included British Petroleum, the Nuffield Foundation and Royal Dutch Shell. ( Michael Sanderson (2002), The history of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, p. 285, ISBN 9781852853365). Now aren't two of those rather large oil companies?
Can we put to bed the theory that critics of AGW are in the pay of oil companies, it's getting tiresome? Oil companies are on both sides and some say they are tending towards the pro-AGW camp these days, due to the lure of carbon trading and the money to be made there.
Still waiting for someone to debunk the analysis I linked to earlier that suggests cherry picking of data by NASA. I'd be interested either way!
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