<GIR>Yay! We're doomed!</GIR>Meteorologists are predicting that 2007 will be the hottest year on record yet. Perhaps due to meteors. And polar ice caps are melting. So polar bears have no place to live and starve to death. And now they're considered an endangered species, because some guys got together to sue the US government if they weren't. One of those guys was a guy called Greenpeace. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! interviewed the head guy of those guys, the melodiously named John Passacantando. Full transcript here.
Why has the United States been so far behind the other industrialized nations in recognizing that global warming is from our emissions, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, and so far behind taking actions? It comes down to a concerted effort by companies like ExxonMobil. Our records at Greenpeace show -- and this is all documented on a research website called exxonsecrets.org -- that between 1998 and 2005, ExxonMobil funded groups that were going to be skeptical of global warming, in some cases lie about the truth about global warming, gave them almost $20 million to confuse the American public about global warming.
Don't think that this is confined to the United States of America, either. Follow the money in New Zealand, see who's framing the debates.