re: >>Among the groups that received funding from Exxon are ... the infamous Heartland Institute, a so-called Chicago-based "think-tank," which advocates, alongside the fact that coal and oil are good for the atmosphere, that smoking is good for your health, and so on.

I don’t understand this assumption that corporate funding makes conservative and libertarian groups unreliable, but not liberal advocacy groups who get just as much or even more money from the same corporations. According to its annual reports, ExxonMobil in 2008 gave grants to Audubon, Business for Social Responsibility, Nature Conservancy, Resources for the Future, and the Brookings Institution, all of which support the Al Gore-alarmist position on global warming. In 2003, Exxon supported the NAACP, Urban League, HJ. John Heinz III Center for Science, Energy, and Environment, World Resources Institute, and Aspen Institute. Are they all unreliable, too?

Your words "alarmist position on global warming" clearly show that you are on the side of those who cannot or don't want to see reason. Global warming is not a debate, or a philosophical concept, it's the harsh reality, and as soon as people like you get out of the way, the rest of us who care about the planet could go on and preserve it the best we can.

As to these institutes, I was merely pointing out that the Heartland Institute is an organization that not only disputes the scientifically-established fact of global warming, but also the fact that tobacco is good for you, and other such non-sense. How can you justify such positions?

As for Exxon, funding to liberal institutions cannot compensate for dispersing propaganda against science, in very much the same way you do in our post. I'm sorry that the world is moving past you and Exxon's interest in oil and so-called "security", but you'll just have to get used to it eventually.

I found this page and cant believe how incredibly misinformed it is. The writers absolute certainty that global warming is anthropgenic is akin to Nazi propaganda. The fact is people that I dont get anything off of exxon or other companies. The fact is that global warming is a myth. The fact is that its caused by the sun and if you actually knew anything about science you'd understand that fluctuations in the solar cycle is a very real explantation for why we sometimes get hotter and sometimes colder. Think of a grenade or a nuke or any other explosion. Its usually asymmetric in explosive shape. Now understand that the sun is a series of very long explosions occuring again and again and you might understand that its going to be asymmetric and that we have periods in history which support cooling and heating depending on what direction the explosion took (solar flares). In the 1960s the big scare was of a new ice age.

Now here are the real facts. The fact is al gore is a fraud getting rich by propagating a lie. Global warming is a convenient truth which helps to create millions of useless jobs. Global warming keeps the nation scared which makes them easier to control in the name of saving the planet. Most importantly global warming penalties slows the development of china and india significantly and ensures that the west remains as the foremost powerful player in global affairs for at least another century.

On a side note al gore refuses to debate with the opposition under any circumstances. Only someone with something to hide refuses to debate. Thats not democracy thats a dictatorship . Gore is no better than bush.

Oh and the 2500 scientist who support gore only do so because they're livelihoods depend on global warming existing , they are global warming scientists and there are to many of them to be able to just diversify if the threat disappeared. There arent enough jobs in environmental science to support these people if the threat disappeared and they're hard earned degrees would be worthless.

On another note there are 30000 outspoken scientists who are againts the myth. 30000> 2500. And I can gaurantee that there are many more who disagree but just dont care enough to shout about it. The thing is a lot of scientist dont really care about anything but their current research.

You exhibit an amazing ability of ignoring scientific studies. Lots of them.

Further reading:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/WWF-039-s-Dr-Neil-Hamilton-on-Global-Warming-in-the-Arctic-116480.shtml

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-We-039-re-Cutting-the-Branch-from-Under-our-Feet-116474.shtml

What is the source for the number of scientists you list?
How do you know the Sun is causing global warming? There are studies showing this is not true.

The only "fact" is that billions of artificially-created tons of carbon dioxide pumped in the atmosphere break the natural balance, so something is bound to go awfully wrong. Unfortunately, it's the weather. The fact that you declare GW does not exist does not change the reality, and only proves your goal is to misinform and create propaganda for the fossil fuel industry.

Also, I find this statement "Global warming keeps the nation scared which makes them easier to control in the name of saving the planet." to be out of contact with reality.

Simple reasoning:

America is controlled by corporations such as Exxon, BP and others.
Corporations (in the fossil fuel industry) oppose the notion of climate change
The goal of ALL corporations is to endlessly accumulate capital and profits

Therefore:

Passing bills that would reduce their profits makes no sense under the capitalist doctrine.
Why would they willingly sacrifice their profits, when their very exsistence relies on profits

And another thing. Jobs are never useless, especially when the unemployment rate in the US is approaching 10 percent. Just so you know.