Fox & Friends funnels Exxon-funded NCPPR press release on CIA AGW Program

Attacking a CIA program providing climate data to scientists, Fox & Friends accused the Obama administration of “[s]pying on icebergs instead of terrorists” and “[t]racking climate change instead of Al-Qaeda,” which echoes a press release from the conservative and ExxonMobil-funded National Center for Public Policy Research that claimed the program “diverts intelligence assets to climate research.” In fact, federal officials have reportedly said that the program, which allows the scientific community to gather data from CIA equipment, “has little or no impact on regular intelligence gathering.”

NCPPR funded annually by ExxonMobil. The National Center for Public Policy Research, which “advocates private, free market solutions to today’s environmental challenges,” has received significant contributions from ExxonMobil Corp., including $55,000 per year in 2008, 2007, and 2006, as well as $30,000 in 2002. NCPPR also received $55,000 per year from the ExxonMobil Foundation in 2005 and 2004, $23,000 in 2003, $15,000 in 2002, and $30,000 in 2001.

NCPPR funneled money for convicted felon Jack Abramoff. The Washington Post reported on June 25, 2006, that documents released in the investigation of former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff revealed that “[a]s far back as 1996, Abramoff was using [Amy Moritz] Ridenour’s National Center for Public Policy Research to hide the source of funding for trips and other ventures intended to boost the interests of his lobbying clients, e-mails show.”

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