I really don’t know what to make of this video. At the least, it’s very entertaining, but I don’t know if it will woo the likes of Laurie David to the alter!

Laurie David has a piece on Huffington Post today outlining just how desperate the climate denial industry has gotten.

This latest salvo comes from none other than Rob Ferguson and the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). Since leaving the oil-industry backed and former Philip Morris sponsored Frontiers of Freedoms, Ferguson and the SPPI have been aggressively promoting the denialist message.

In a related, but separate matter, Ferguson has been reticent to respond to my emails regrading his involvement in the recent online campaign to discredit the fine work of Dr. Naomi Oreskes.

Guess he's too busy reading children's books.

In Laurie David's great new quick read book, The Solution is you! , she pens a letter to the University of Virginia regarding Pat "the coalman" Michaels:

To: University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences

Numerous media outlets reported that one of your professors, Dr. Patrick Michaels , has accepted upwards of $150,000 from coal interests and coal-burning electric utility companies for his advocacy against the overwhelming consenus on global warming.

Is this solicitation of funds from industries that pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gases in line with the university's mission?

When Laurie David approached the National Science Teacher's Association (NSTA) to offer 50,000 free DVD copies of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth she was surpised by the answer: "Thanks but no thanks." In a recent Washington Post editorial titled "Science a la Joe Camel," David, who is one of the producers on Gore's movie, explains that the rebuke was due to concern over that other "unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters." Any guesses about who those "targetted supporters" might be? I know, it's getting old, but I'm sure you guessed it: ExxonMobil.