More Global Warming News

Marketplace and CNNMoney.com both reported today that the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank partially funded by Exxon-Mobil, sent out letters in July offering $10,000 plus expenses to scientists to write reports critical of the U.N. Climate Change Assessment. The author of the letters, Steven Hayward, dismisses the idea that this amounts to a bribe. I'll let you draw your own conclusions. But when you hear a quote from a scientist who's skeptical about global warming, it's worth asking yourself if he or she was paid to come to that specific conclusion.