EXXON REFUSES BUDGE ON LGBT RIGHTS, GLOBAL WARMING

Exxon Mobil shareholders met yesterday in Dallas and refused to update the company's misguided and discriminatory policies. For the seventh year, shareholders "rejected a resolution seeking the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees in the company's anti-discrimination policies." 34.6 percent of the attendees voted in favor of the resolution, up from 29.4 percent in 2005. Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese notes that Exxon is the only Fortune 50 company that refuses to accept the anti-discrimination policy. Exxon also refused to budge from its anti-global warming position, with CEO Rex Tillerson asserting that the climate change "scientific consensus" was an "oxymoron." Tillerson tried to argue that Exxon was simply taking part in the "debate" over global warming by funding right-wing skeptics. But Exxon's skeptics aren't part of the mainstream debate. Fellows, such as Sterling Burnett, at the Exxon-backed National Center for Policy Analysis, have resorted to comparing Al Gore to Adolf Hitler: "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews." While Exxon continues to insist that there's no consensus on global warming, the scientific community is moving forward. Science magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming published between 1993 and 2003. Not a single one challenged the scientific consensus the earth's temperature is rising due to human activity