<H4>Exxon lied, asthmatics died</H4>

The bloom is off the rose on ExxonMobil’s claims of a neutral stance on the truth of global warming, according to The Guardian.

Here’s the lowdown on their two faces.

In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's “active involvement” in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

Meanwhile, Exxon was putting on a different public face.

But in evidence to the UK House of Lords science and technology committee in 2003, Exxon's head of public affairs, Nick Thomas, said: “I think we can say categorically we have not campaigned with the United States government or any other government to take any sort of position over Kyoto.”

When will people wake up and smell the coffee? I’ve boycotted Exxon since the Exxon Valdez disaster.