Forget the manufactured, taken-out-of-context, non-scandal "scandal" of so-called
"climategate" (in actuality, the scientific evidence for man-made global warming is
vast,
diverse, and
growing by the day),
here's the real "climategate" scandal:
A group promoting skepticism over widely-accredited climate change science has a web of connections to influential oil giant Exxon-Mobil, Raw Story has found.
The organization is called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently named after the UN coalition International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). An investigation into the group reveals its numerous links to Exxon-Mobil, a vehement opponent of climate legislation and notorious among scientists for funding global warming skeptics.
"Exxon-Mobil essentially funds people to lie," Joseph Romm, lauded climate expert and author of the blog Climate Progress, told Raw Story. "It's important for people to understand that they pay off the overwhelming majority of groups in the area of junk science."
Now
that should be a scandal. So, where's the comparable outrage to the non-scandal noted above?
