Ad features 100 scientists willing to stoke the climate crisis
Tue, 2009-03-31 13:02Richard Littlemore Richard Littlemore's
picture  Ad features 100 scientists willing to stoke the climate
crisis    We know, for example, that the API has been conspiring
since the late 1990s, to sow doubt and confusion about climate
science. And the signatories to this new ad - these "100
scientists" - also include a large group that has added
handsomely to their livelihood in the last 10 years by taking
money from think tanks and coal companies to deny climate
change.  Think of people on the George Monbiot list, and think
especially of someone like Patrick Michaels, a denier for hire
who has long ago distinguished himself as the kind of researcher
who the coal industry sponsors because of his willingness "to
stand up against the alarmists and bring balance to the
discussion." (Of course, at no point does Michaels do this by
actually pursuing climate researchl; rather, he appears to earn
his coal money by signing Cato Institu