Why I’m a Global Warming Skeptic  Pages: 1 2  Another of the
alarmists’ ad hominem attacks – that anyone who questions their
conclusions has been bought off by “big oil” (as Al Gore
proclaimed in his testimony before Congress) – is not only a lie
but a completely illogical claim.  Whatever grant money a
scientist may receive from the “evil” folks at Exxon/Mobil, etc.
is nothing next to the tens of millions of dollars pocketed by
folks like Al Gore.  If one believes that all questions can be
answered by “following the money,” then the scientist with a
fifty-thousand dollar research grant from “big oil” (who must
then weather the hate-mongering of the global warming
establishment, put his job at risk and condemn both himself and
everyone he knows and loves to a global catastrophe unequaled in
human history) is not the guy to be questioning.  If the
“denier” is lying, he dies.  If Al Gore is lying he gets to live
into a ripe old age spending millions, jet-setting around the
globe and showing off his Oscar and hi