AEI offers scientists $10,000 to disagree with global warming report

The American Enterprise Institute, an "ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration," has offering $10,000 to any scientist or economist who publicly undermines report on global warming from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The IPCC report says there is a 90% chance that human activity is warming the planet, and that global average temperatures will rise by another 1.5 to 5.8C this century, depending on emissions.

It seems as though the oil companies will do just about anything to deny

It's ridiculous for corporations, politicians, and pundits to continually deny global warming just because they don't agree with it or the ramifications it will have on the way the do business.

Guardian Unlimited: Scientists offered cast to dispute climate study
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(Just to give you an idea of the AEI's stances on other issues, they just released a book titled "The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy)