Another Surprising Bush Feat

A recent article surfaced wherein a lobbyist group closely linked to the Bush Administration has offered cash to scientists to dispute recent global warming evidence.

"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)."

My favorite line from the article, Ben Stewart from Greenpeace remarking: "The AEI is more than just a thinktank, it functions as the Bush administration's intellectual Cosa Nostra. They are White House surrogates in the last throes of their campaign of climate change denial. They lost on the science; they lost on the moral case for action. All they've got left is a suitcase full of cash."

So, of course, we are all utterly shocked that cronies of the Bush Administration would pay money to refute actual scientific data. Which reminds me of my favorite recent Will Ferrell clip.

Nice frisbee grab though.