Pat Michaels admits: '40 percent' of funding comes from big oil.

8/15/10: Fareed Zakaria, Gavin Schmidt, and Jeffrey Sachs discuss how to confront the catastrophic threat of global warming as Pat Michaels admits he's a fossil-funded mouthpiece for doing nothing.

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[MrHicks091]

Well all he was doing was giving an estimate-it's most likely *above* 50%. What this proves, though, is that he gets a substantial amount of money from the fossil fuel industry-which makes his anti GHG abatement views extremely suspicious.

[maityouwhat]

His body language says it all. Thank you, Fareed. Science will prevail. Hopefully.

[Jonathan Calabretta]

No, no he isn't.

Hansen accepted pro bono legal advice from the Government Accountability Project on how to avoid retaliation from the Bush administration for refusing to cook the books to promote the denier talking points.

This was spun into something wrong via lots of lies by Investors Business Daily see tinyurl dot com/c6d4omc .

Hansen utterly nailed the increase in temperature over the past quarter century back in 1988 and the deniers have hated him ever since.

[tabber87]

James Hansen is funded by George Soros.

[Jonathan Calabretta]

Because the flatearthers funding allows them to be taken seriously after their positions are refuted.

While genuine scientists like James Hansen are smeared as "unreliable" or far worse by known con artists like Michaels who even admits to being a shill for Big Oil (as you have just seen here) as well as fabricating statements he attributed to Hansen in an effort to sabotage Hansen's creditability.

The fact that people like you believe Michaels ilk is absolute proof the smart to do is be scared.

[tabber87]

Who cares where his funding comes from? He's arguing scientific issues. If he's nothing more than an oil-company shill than his positions should be easily refutable. Why are people so scared of these "flat-earther's" funding?

[Derek Gunn]

- do you have ANY evidence of that?

[trzajec]

OK, and the IPCC is 100% founded by the people who tell them what to find out.

Now what?

[MoJoSB]

You know damn well it's over 50% and you know that he is 100% full of shit.

Why in the fuck anyone who wasn't getting paid say global warming is not happening. That is what I don't understand about so many who post about climate change on you tube. It's in your best interest to have clean air, don't you think?

Are you getting paid and if you are, who is doing the hiring? If the world is going to shit, might as well get PAID, right? That is good old capitalist think.

[lumajs]

If he's only 40% funded by the oil industry, 40% is still less than 50%, so he is still mostly funded by the non-oil industry, so he may still be biased against the oil industry. ;-)