Global Warming and Faustian Deals

There's a good article in the news today about those who work hard (and for a lot of money to deny there is any global warming. Seems there are a lot Fausts out there who will sell their souls, and yours too, for a large sum of money.

Here are a few quotes from the article:

"A conservative think tank long funded by ExxonMobil . . . offered scientists $10,000 to write articles undercutting the report and the computer-based climate models it is based on.

"If you think those who have long challenged the mainstream scientific findings about global warming recognize that the game is over, think again."

"Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change. . . "

"They patterned what they did after the tobacco industry," says former senator Tim Wirth, who spearheaded environmental issues as an under secretary of State in the Clinton administration. "Both figured, sow enough doubt, call the science uncertain and in dispute. That's had a huge impact on both the public and Congress."

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/