[sasquatch]

Here’s some other stuff getting funded:

A project that is working toward these goals is now underway at Stanford University with the support of a group of global companies (including ExxonMobil, GE, Schlumberger, and Toyota). With initial funding of $225 million, the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) will unleash the creativity of faculty and students at Stanford and other universities and research institutions worldwide. With a sustained effort in this project and many others, we can begin now to create a path toward an energy future that is feasible and practical, applicable to both the developed and the developing world, with much lower greenhouse emissions.

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Even with Cal Thomas' expose' of Algoreligion, Cal falls into the trap of reverberating with alGore's "accusations," that there are (oh, horrors!) those who accept money from oil companies to do research. In Al's twisted world, he would have us believe such researchers are merely shills for oil company propaganda, and thus he would put a monkey on his enemies' back. If any should deny it, they'll implicitly be mentioning the association of oil money with the individual or group a 2nd time. (It's just like Hillary's people happily mentioning Obama and drugs in the same sentence when being asked whether the Hillary campaign would wish to retract their negative ads.)

Since when is doing work for for-profit companies ipso facto considered "an accusation" of a presumed crime? At least such companies are owned by millions of average Americans, and rise or fall in direct relationship to their ability to produce something Americans want, in a market-accpetable way!

"Science" has far more been skewed of late by the fact that many of these AGW zealots have already been conditioned by sucking on largely-unaccountable government and UN teats for a long time! If any group has been tainted by receiving money that sought to support a viewpoint, it's the wacko environmentalists and their minions that seek to shut down the engines of commerce. They're not subject to markets. They produce nothing people are buying, phony carbon offsets not withstanding!

The "Nobel" IPCC-types that still adhere to AGW love the thought that their scientific adversaries' funding would dry, simply reinforcing the ostracization the gov't.-funded-AGW string-pullers have long been enforcing through their dole of taxpayer funds, overwhelmingly to those would would set their focus pro-AGW.

It is but more projection from Leftists who're already deviously-doing-on-the-taxpayer-dollar that of which they "accuse" others. Of course, as long as they're the ones doing it, there's no reason to let such a thing ever be considered an "accusation." They're the corrupted, bought-off shills, which is one of the facts this huge smokescreen is intended to cover up!

HF