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You often have to wonder why crackpots like Augie Auer and the Climate Science Coalition maintain their position when it is so clearly wrong and is so clearly damaging to their credibility. Well often it’s because they’re getting paid.

The day of reckoning has come – when we get to find out just how much of the climate change denial industry ExxonMobil aka Esso is still paying for. This is the company which, apparently, has been “misunderstood” on global warming and has said it has dropped its funding of the deniers.

Read on or check the google news coverage.

Vanity fair also did this excellent piece on the climate ckeptic industry.

Laypeople frequently assume that in a political dispute the truth must lie somewhere in the middle, and they are often right. In a scientific dispute, though, such an assumption is usually wrong.

- Paul Ehrlich

It is human nature to protect your own interests. We may recall the extensive and incredibly successful campaign of the American tobacco companies to conceal the link between cancer and the use of tobacco products. For decades, they knew the reality of the addictive nature of nicotine and the carcinogenic effects of tobacco use. For decades, they successfully kept that reality hidden from the American public. [ Read more ]