Exxon-Mobil is determined to kill any legislation to reduce carbon emissions. Period. Their generous donations to groups like American Enterprise, Heritage Foundations, and countless other "non-partisan think tanks,"which are the only groups who will publish the work of these hacks, make that pretty clear. Two years ago, they offered $ 1 million dollars to anyone who could counter the findings of the IPCC. Do you really think EM can profit more easily from green technology, which would require massive new investments and restructuring of their operations, than they can from continuing the status quo as the largest oil company and most profitable corporation in the world? Seriously? And do you really think universities and the IPCC are where the money is? Scientists can far more profitably shill for big business than work for universities or government agencies. Show me a sceptic who doesn't have ties to the oil industry, and has had is work published in a scientific journal, then we'll talk.

Is Exxon-Mobil paying you well, Steyn?