Yikes. Everyone must watch this video, which comes to us from DeSmogBlog:

And on a related note, this seems like a good time to link to The Denialists’ Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts. You will see that these perpetual, maddening arguments about global warming are not new. The techniques are the same and the goals are the same: protecting industry.

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All the more reason not to feed the trolls.

And PS: DeSmogBlog also has a petition asking Fox to fire Steven Milloy, one-time tobacco shill, now climate denialist shill. FYI.

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