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title: 6 tweets exposing some biased research
date: 2015-02-10T17:04:54Z
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“First they ignore you, then they try and publish bogus studies to discredit you!”



Yesterday, a new report against fossil fuel divestment came out. When I started seeing tweets about it, I checked out their website and saw this:

[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 11.39.22 AM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.39.22-AM1-1024x118.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.39.22-AM1.png)Besides the fact that the report is commissioned by the fossil fuel industry, there’s a lot of other reasons it’s pretty bogus.

If you want to get into it the financial ins and outs – [check out our release about it.](https://350.org/press-release/industry-funded-divestment-study-cherry-picks-data-and-reaches-the-wrong-conclusion/)

And here are 6 tweets from 350’s Jamie Henn that lays things out too:

[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 11.46.29 AM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.46.29-AM.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.46.29-AM.png)[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 11.43.43 AM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.43.43-AM.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.43.43-AM.png)[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 11.43.58 AM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.43.58-AM.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.43.58-AM.png)[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 11.46.48 AM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.46.48-AM.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.46.48-AM.png)[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 11.47.54 AM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.47.54-AM.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.47.54-AM.png)– Here’s that study to check out –> [read here](https://news.yahoo.com/college-fossil-fuel-divestment-movement-builds-173849305.html)

[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 11.48.07 AM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.48.07-AM.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-11.48.07-AM.png)Also – just going to include this recent tweet from a Wall Street Journal energy policy reporter about plunging stocks of oil companies:

[![Screen Shot 2015-02-10 at 12.24.09 PM](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-12.24.09-PM.png)

](https://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-10-at-12.24.09-PM.png)---

Want to learn more about the global divestment movement? Well, good news is we have an a huge weekend of action coming up Feb 13-14 (yup that’s this weekend) that’s happening on 6 continents, in over 50 countries. Learn more about it from this great animation.

Then check out [www.globaldivestmentday.org](www.globaldivestmentday.org) to join!