Lawrence Solomon is a Fraud, and He Knows It, Too
Richard Littlemore:
Self-described "environmentalist" Lawrence Solomon has become the toast of the oil-industry-backed climate change denier community ever since the spring 2008 release of his book, "The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud (and those who are too fearful to do so)".
The problem, then and still, is that nobody in Solomon's overheated text actually denies that humans are causing climate change. He admits as much on Page 45 of his book, saying:
"As these rather dramatic reversals for the doomsday view mounted, however, I also noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers.
"None of them were deniers."
He'll be whoring himself next week (Dec. 2) on an open conference call sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. (I've just registered - is it possible to throw a virtual pie through the airwaves?) One wonders why at the current juncture, with the US economy in free-fall, a business advocacy organization would busy itself with pumping money into climate-science bamboozlement. "Deniers" is also on the Chamber's list of top ten books of 2008.
UPDATE: When I wrote this post originally I had no clue about the troubling connection of soon-to-be National Security Adviser James Jones to the Chamber (and in particular its energy platform).
Self-described "environmentalist" Lawrence Solomon has become the toast of the oil-industry-backed climate change denier community ever since the spring 2008 release of his book, "The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud (and those who are too fearful to do so)".
The problem, then and still, is that nobody in Solomon's overheated text actually denies that humans are causing climate change. He admits as much on Page 45 of his book, saying:
"As these rather dramatic reversals for the doomsday view mounted, however, I also noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers.
"None of them were deniers."
He'll be whoring himself next week (Dec. 2) on an open conference call sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. (I've just registered - is it possible to throw a virtual pie through the airwaves?) One wonders why at the current juncture, with the US economy in free-fall, a business advocacy organization would busy itself with pumping money into climate-science bamboozlement. "Deniers" is also on the Chamber's list of top ten books of 2008.
UPDATE: When I wrote this post originally I had no clue about the troubling connection of soon-to-be National Security Adviser James Jones to the Chamber (and in particular its energy platform).
posted by hellisotherpeople at 2:41 PM
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