Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/...004399,00.html

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www.steeleretort.com is going to kick you liberals in the ass! I hate liberals with every cell in my body!!!

I agree with James Inhofe of Oklahoma:

"Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican and global warming skeptic who headed the environment committee before Democrats gained the congressional majority last year, assailed the report.

"This is a political document, not a scientific report, and it is a shining example of the corruption of science for political gain," Inhofe said in a statement."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02204438.htm

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

"human activity".

Reminds me of the coneheads.

You'd think if any scientists found any problems with the report, they would report it without the extra cash.

Any takers?

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The views expressed in the above post are not necessarily those of Joker and/or any of his affiliates.

. "You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

Scientists are paid to keep the reasearch going, finding a result would put them out of a high paying job...

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Oh the DeadHead avatar is there because I like their Music, not because I'm a hippy

Scientists advance in their careers by getting results.

32 degrees below zero in northern mn....global what? Where is our heat? Hold on....lemme throw another log on the fire...OIL helps to get it going....remember the "burn barrel" days? I do...the libs tried to kill it but every evening I light my burn barrel with a red flag. Ahhh...the smell of burning carcinogens warms the soul....cabaret!

True, but this gives them incentive for doing a more thorough investigation of the report and to report their findings.

if you agree with him then that means you read the report.....wow!

one is paid to do their work the other is paid not to. Of course, the way neocons are acting these days, they are probably not the party that believes in earing your paycheck.....