Leon Richard of Farmington, ME Hey. Just go to Junkscience.com and present your convincing, scientifically valid evidence. The guy that runs the site, Steven Malloy, will give you 100,000 dollars.

This is the same person who Al Gore has run from since his public relations stunt when public. He will not meet to debate his film or the material contained in it. Nobody who supports his take on Global Warming will debate him either.

They can't predict the weather reliably tomorrow, or even tonight. The same crowd was beating, "The next Ice Age is coming!" drum when I was in grammar school in the late 1970's.

"The sky is falling!" crowd, and, "The end is near!" crowd is ever present. The problem now is this. Some of the money grabbers and the "one world government" and tax and spend Liberals in Washington have figured out they can take even more from people on the basis of this "carbon tax" foolishness.

What is going to happen is they're going to "redistribute the wealth" in the world and this country. They're going to take it from those who worked for it, made it, earned it, and give it to those who do not have it. They do not have it because they didn't earn it. They didn't make it. It's not theirs'.

I like my wealth right where it is, thank you. I like the wealth of this country right where it is, thank you. It does not need to be "redistributed".report abuse

VivaBusho of Waterville, ME Turns out that the tactics of "global warming skeptics" are similar to those of big tobocco, which went after people like TiredTaxpayer, this letter writer, and others who care less for reason than labels -- theirs "conservative" or "Republican"

Vancouver PR whistleblower

And that makes Jim Hoggan mad. Hoggan runs one of the largest PR firms in Western Canada. PR practitioners rarely criticize the work of their colleagues, but Hoggan pulls no punches in his scathing denunciation of the global warming deniers and their public relations advisors.

In December 2005, he set up his blog, which he calls deSmogBlog. In his personal manifesto, "Slamming the Climate Skeptic Scam," he writes "it is infuriating -- as a public relations professional -- to watch my colleagues use their skills, their training and their considerable intellect to poison the international debate on climate change."

It's powerful reading.report abuse

VivaBusho of Waterville, ME More for the Replican deniers of ACTUAL science, logic, reason and public policy to benefit something other than large corporations that are actually endangering future generations...

APCO's assignment for Imperial Oil was to bring together a roster of climate change skeptics to reveal Kyoto's "science and technology fatal flaws."

An APCO specialty is supporting rogue scientists who are financed by industry and purport to challenge established scientific thinking. APCO organized The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which was originally funded by the Philip Morris Company, to attack epidemiological studies which implicated environmental tobacco smoke in slightly increased rates of lung cancer in non-smokers. Such studies could not be allowed to stand, given the tobacco industry's claim that harm from smoking was regrettable but due to individual choice, not second-hand smoke. This work was essential in Philip Morris' efforts to limit the impact of passive smoking regulations. APCO then widened the financial catchment to include other companies with poisoning or polluting problems. The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition was so successful that it was assigned a lead role in opposing Kyoto.report abuse

VivaBusho of Waterville, ME The question is, where do the right-wingnuts like this letter writer and the other right-wingnuts who have posted here get their "information"?

Sceptic in demand

Closer to home, one of the 19 Canadian signatories to the skeptics letter is Tim Ball, a retired professor of climatology from the University of Winnipeg, now living in Victoria. As a global-warming sceptic, he is in high demand by the front groups sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

Ball's particular niche is the argument that since 1940, the world's climate has actually been cooling. The conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reached by over 2,000 climate scientists, that the world is heating up is wrong, he says, because it used "distorted records."

Undistorted records in hand, Ball is promoted by the National Center for Public Policy Research ($225,000 from Exxon Mobil), and Tech Central Station (which also receives support from General Motors). He's a hot topic on the Coalblog web site, sponsored by the coal companies. In the past year, he's given policy briefings to the Fraser Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg.report abuse