According to the quoted New York Time article, it seems that Exxon is 
funding, not "marginal scientists", but mouthpieces, various lobbying 
groups 
who point to these "marginal scientists", presumably both of them, and 
claim 
dissension. It may seem like a small difference, but it is not 
insignificant.

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Greg, do you know who these people are?

Richard Lindzen, MIT meteorology professor and member of the National 
Academy of Sciences
Robert C. Balling, Jr., director of the Office of Climatology and an 
associate professor of geography at Arizona State University

William M. Gray, Colorado State University
Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Sallie Baliunas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Frederick Seitz, retired, former solid-state physicist, former president 
of the National Academy of Sciences
Nir Shaviv, an astrophysicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Fred Singer, president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project: 

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