http://t.co/bmRqs6pv44 <—- a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) November 19, 2014
When you’re reduced to Neil Cavuto calling on the Doughy Pantload to defend climate-change denialism, you’re fighting a losing battle. From Media Matters, “On Fox, Pundit From Oil-Funded Group Says Climate Scientists Are The Profiteers“:
Fox News provided American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Jonah Goldberg a platform to attack climate scientists as profiteers who are “financially incentivized” to advocate climate change action, without disclosing AEI’s own financial incentive to undercut action on climate change. AEI has taken over $3 million from ExxonMobil, and once offered money to scientists to write articles criticizing a UN climate change report…
Though host Neil Cavuto did disclose that Goldberg is a fellow at AEI, he did not mention AEI’s ties to the oil industry or its history of offering money to climate scientists to write articles undermining a climate change report. In 2013, The Union of Concerned Scientists reported that AEI received $3.04 million from ExxonMobil between 2001 and 2011. According to ExxonMobil’s website, in 2012 the company also donated $260,000 to AEI…
Video at the link, if you choose to watch it. I’m just amazed the combined Backpfeifengesich didn’t melt the monitor.