PrintJuly 6, 2010
Smearing Global Warming Skeptics
Meteorologist blogger Anthony Watts normally talks about the crumbling science of man-caused global warming, but recently he described an uninvited office guest demanding to know about his alleged "big oil funding." The charge that only the lure of big money causes people to question warmist gospel is old but, as it turns out, of highly questionable origin.Al Gore typifies the central accusation in An Inconvenient Truth, pg 263:The misconception that there is a serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans...One of the internal memos prepared by this group to guide the employees they hired to run their disinformation campaign was discovered by the...(Read Full Article)
