A NICE LOOK AT THE CLIMATE VERSION OF THE NOISE MACHINE

George Monbiot of the Guardian has a nice column that looks that the propaganda machine created by those who want to deny there is man-made global warming and as should be expected, the major oil companies are among the prime funders of the machine. You can also read 4 case studies he put on the Guardian's website.

I particularly liked this excerpt from this column, in part because it reminded me of how the American tobacco industry suppressed the claims of its very own scientists:

One of the biggest was run by the Global Climate Coalition, which represented ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, the American Petroleum Institute and several big motor manufacturers. In 1995 the coalition's own scientists reported that "the scientific basis for the greenhouse effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well-established and cannot be denied".