Old McDonald said:
If someone on the Marlboro bankroll put out a declaration signed by "scientists" saying cigarettes are actually not that bad for you, you'd laugh in their face. if the O&G industry is paying or influencing someone to downplay or deny manmade climate change (as is very obviously the case with the declaration in the op), when they have a very obvious financial incentive to do so regardless of whether it's true, you should be skeptical of the impartiality and veracity of those claims.
This is laughable. I can't believe you can't see the obvious problem with your statement. You seem to think that O&G is the only side with a money incentive?!?!? O&G make a plethora of well-known products that are constantly in high demand with very little effort needed to "sell" what they produce.
Green on the other hand makes products nobody wants, requires a reduction in freedoms and lifestyles, can't produce without subsidies. Green initiative wouldn't exist if wasn't "sold" and sold hard. Sold by force if necessary. And Green's potential financial reach across all industries rivals that of O&G, maybe even more.
So tell me, who has the greater interest in dubious claims, the industry whose products have been around for over a hundred years that sell themselves or the brand-new industry with dubious products with little market demand that require sacrifices by the consumer and whose chief selling strategy is fear?
Let me answer that for you, the "very obvious financial incentive" to lie is going to be the industry that has the hardest job selling their product, and that industry is not O&G.