USA Today, CNN.Money, Boston Globe, and The New York Times. (REUTERS)

"ExxonMobil is double-crossing the public and policymakers. It's avoiding real changes and continuing to fund groups that purposefully distort the science of global warming," said Shawnee Hoover, the campaign director of Exxpose Exxon, a coalition of green and scientific groups.

They say the company still funds about 40 organizations that the environmental group classified as "global warming deniers," shelling out more than $2 million to the groups in 2006.

About three dozen protesters — outnumbered by police — staged a peaceful demonstration outside the meeting against the company's funding of groups they believe deny or distort the science of global warming.

The protesters waved banners with slogans like "People Before Profits" and chanted "No More Junk Science."

The Washington Post - Outside the oil giant's annual meeting in Dallas yesterday, a smattering of 40 or so protesters, unsatisfied with the company's efforts to stem climate change, displayed signs saying "Exxpose Exxon" and "No Planet, No Dividends."

Photo Caption: Protesters at Exxon Mobil's annual meeting urge the oil company to do more to stem climate change. A proposal to lower Exxon's emissions was defeated. (By Lm Otero -- Associated Press)

Dallas Morning News - More than a dozen shareholders stood up at the company's annual meeting to ask the board to do something about the political and financial risk of emitting greenhouse gases and making fuels that contribute to global warming.

Public outcry over global warming is boiling over, and most experts anticipate the U.S. will limit greenhouse gas emissions at some point.

Photo Caption: Members of Exxpose Exxon, including Chad Sanders (left) and Renee Vaughan, protested outside Exxon Mobil's annual meeting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Some shareholders took their concerns to company executives inside the meeting. (Photos by REX C. CURRY/Special Contributor.)

VIDEO: PROTEST OUTSIDE EXXON MEETING - Protesters express anger about gas prices and responsiveness to climate change issues outside Exxon's annual meeting Wednesday in Dallas.