Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

Not that it's all that surprising:

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Those arseholes are really getting desperate, aren't they? When they so openly try to bribe scientists, it's a sign that they figure they have nothing to lose now. Which means they know they're losing the battle for public opinion. And that is a damn good sign.

Via skdadl at pogge.