Utilities give warming skeptic big bucks

[LiviaOlivia]

Utilities give warming skeptic big bucks
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

Coal-burning utilities are passing the hat for one of the few remaining scientists skeptical of the global warming harm caused by industries that burn fossil fuels.

Pat Michaels — Virginia's state climatologist, a University of Virginia professor and senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute — told Western business leaders last year that he was running out of money for his analyses of other scientists' global warming research. So last week, a Colorado utility organized a collection campaign to help him out, raising at least $150,000 in donations and pledges.

The Intermountain Rural Electric Association of Sedalia, Colo., gave Michaels $100,000 and started the fund-raising drive, said Stanley Lewandowski, IREA's general manager. He said one company planned to give $50,000 and a third plans to give Michaels money next year.

"We cannot allow the discussion to be monopolized by the alarmists," Lewandowski wrote in a July 17 letter to 50 other utilities. He also called on other electric cooperatives to launch a counterattack on "alarmist" scientists and specifically Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060727/ap_on_sc/science_for_sale

[rurallib]

1. How do I get ahold of these people? Am willing to lie and claim to

be a scientist for half that amount.

[Fridays Child]

4. LOL!

:rofl:

[Barrett808]

2. Good old Pat Michaels and his "Greening Earth Society"

Unless he's changed his tune recently, his position seems to be that climage change isn't happening, but if it is, it will be completely beneficial.

Bah.

[Just Me]

3. Charity to liars,...amazing. Man, this country is sick. Sick, sick, sick.

nt

[EST]

5. Republicans, so-called "conservatives,

neo-con artists, dribble down economists, and their supportive mendicants have a fundamental assumption that borders on obsession-that everyone lies.
They assume that no one really tells the truth by preference and training, therefore they, themselves must, in order to overcome the odds, practice obfuscation as a ground of being.

If they don't lie, the lying opposition gets an automatic advantage. They feel that, for the most part, it is an essential function of government to lie to anyone outside the ruling junta, but most importantly, to the great unwashed.

They lie about nearly everything, even when telling the truth would be to their advantage. If one tells the truth consistently or lies consistently, life is simpler.
The problem of having to remember whom you told what only shows up when you mix the two.

No one loses money by betting on the lack of veracity among these reprobates.

[sabra]

6. U.S. power group promoting global warming skeptic

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27433280.htm

U.S. power group promoting global warming skeptic


NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters) - A Colorado electricity cooperative is urging other power groups to support global warming skeptics and has donated $100,000 to a climatologist who has labeled some of his colleagues "alarmists."

The Intermountain Rural Electric Association's general manager wrote in a letter to other energy cooperatives that it also helped raise contributions from others for Dr. Patrick Michaels, a climatologist at the University of Virginia and a fellow at the CATO Institute in Washington D.C.

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An environmentalist said it was surprising that an industry group with a stake in future global warming legislation would give money to a scientist.

"I would say it's smoking gun evidence that industry is trying to buy science to back its anti-environmental propaganda on global warming," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Washington D.C.-environmental group Clean Air Watch.

"Something coming from a Patrick Michaels should carry a warning label," he said. "'Caution: this commentary bought with industry money.'"

[IDemo]

7. If Michaels is a 'fellow' at the CATO Institute, he's a neo-con fellow

[ShockediSay]

8. bottom line: power industry should be able to continue air pollution

and these heatwaves are a figleaf of the imagination

[truthisfreedom]

9. 90 dead in California heat waves. rolling blackouts due to excess air

conditioner usage.

and they want to buy sand to bury our heads in.

sorry, this will only inflame and enrage people.