'Many of the nation’s most prominent universities, including Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, and George Washington, are awash with fossil fuel funding, and scientists are ringing the alarm about the effects this money has on climate research.'
calling for an end to universities' financial entanglements with the fossil fuel industry for this very reason. Signatories underscored the"inherent conflict of interest," calling fossil fuel funding for climate research"antithetical to universities' core academic and social values," and pointing out that it serves to uphold companies' greenwashing. of a new school dedicated solely to sustainability.
Stanford's brazen defiance of climate scientists' and experts' warning only a few months prior sends a clear message: Fossil fuel influence in climate-related learning and research is not a relic of the past but an ongoing and pressing threat to climate solution-building. Research that seeks to chart humanity's path forward does not happen in a vacuum—we scientists are every bit as vulnerable to influence as any other group of people.
Indeed, the battle for climate action and transparency is no longer about convincing the public of the science or urgency of the climate crisis. The majority of Americans
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