Global warming?

[classicman]

and no sooner does it seem like ... oh nevermind. . . probably just another "denier" pissing in the wind.

The warming "scientific" community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other's papers -- and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train.

Such behavior is perhaps to be expected from politicians and government functionaries. From scientists, it's a travesty.

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[SamIam]

Originally Posted by classicman

and no sooner does it seem like ... oh nevermind. . . probably just another "denier" pissing in the wind.


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The man who wrote that story is Matt Peterson who serves as a mouthpiece for the ultra conservative Capitol Research Center.

The Center got its 15 minutes of infamy in the 1990s for publishing studies highly critical of charities which engaged in anti-tobacco lobbying efforts. These charities include the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society. It was later revealed that tobacco giant Philip Morris provided $50,000 in funding to the Capital Research Center.

Nuff said.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by SamIam

The man who wrote that story is Matt Peterson who serves as a mouthpiece for the ultra conservative Capitol Research Center.

Nuff said.

Perhaps not when you read the whole story....
Actually his name is Matt Patterson not Peterson. However I would gladly venture a guess that the 50k donated by Philip Morris was a mere drop in the bucket... lets take a quick look.
Hey lookie here - Googling your paragraph links directly to the Wiki page and right above the part you quoted is this....

Funding
According to MediaTransparency, CRC has received 182 grants between 1985 and 2003 totaling $7,778,153, its most generous contributors being Sarah Scaife Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, among others.

From Wiki
so the 50k your are discussing is not really all that significant relative to the 7.7+ million they've gotten over the years. Heck, PM was probably forced to donate to something and they chose this.

If you really want to complain about Philip Morris- look here. Heck there are a lot worse that they've done and are at fault for plenty, just not so much in this instance. Well not that I could find real quickly.