A Climate of Desperation
Of course, the situation is serious, but at least we're not as desperate as this lot:Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
What a good idea: Rent-a-Scientist. (Via Digg.)
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Sadly, this comes hot on the heels of "Big Oil" earning praise for admitting that their views regading the degree to which fossil-fuel emissions are contributing to global warming are changing.
Yes, some people manage to have their cake and eat it....
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