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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (7473)	10/1/2006 9:03:11 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 36917

Interesting writer, has a new book coming out, "Heat". George Monbiot also has a blog. Some worthwhile columns there. monbiot.com The Smoke Behind the Deniers’ Fire It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers – Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role. By George Monbiot. It takes quite a lot to get Britain’s most august scientific body, the Royal Society, riled. But now it has had enough. It is trying to bring an end to a ten-year campaign of disinformation about the world’s most important scientific issue. Throughout that period, journalists who have no background in science, and who appear to know less about the subject than the average 12-year old, have been filling the pages of the Mail, the Telegraph and the Times with articles claiming that manmade global warming is a fraud. --continued- monbiot.com