Manufacturing global warming controveries
If you bought into that silly notion that global warming wasn’t real, you’re just a pawn of the energy industry. Exxon Mobil alone spent $16 million on 43 “advocacy organizations” whose goal was to muddy the waters of intellectual discourse on the issue of global warming. Apparently the oil corporations are so evil that they don’t even care if this planet isn’t habitable in a few decades — they want their profits now. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to understand the motivations of the people who did this to us.
Michael Crichton is another one of the stooges of the oil industry. Nobody has demonstrated just yet how the money is flowing, but he’s already received accolades from the neocons for his vacuously inaccurate tirade against science in State of Fear. And you don’t even want to know how he “got back” at a critic in his latest novel Next. I think it’s pretty safe to say Michael Crichton is off the shopping list indefinitely. Unfortunately, my mom didn’t know about this and bought the book Next on tape for Christmas. Whoops.
