re: #578 Ben Hur

Because that goes both ways on almost every issue.

There are environmental lobbies just like energy lobbies.

There’s a lot of grant money, etc at stake for people involved in global warming studies, credits, taxes, (Gore has made a motherload of it), just like there is a lot of money at stake for the energy co’s.

Each side uses that argument against the other with the same frequency.

No, it’s not the same. One side has an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence. The other side has an overwhelming amount of money from special interest groups, and an overwhelming amount of bullshit.

This isn’t a legitimate “debate.” It’s a deliberate campaign of disinformation. The groups who are doing it have been at it for a long time, and many of them got their start doing the same thing for the tobacco industry — tricking the public into disbelieving the evidence that tobacco smoking causes cancer LONG after the scientific evidence was clear.