Last Gasp to Undermine Global Warming: "The science community has roundly criticized Chairman Joe Barton's (R-TX) misguided Energy and Commerce Committee investigation into a specific global warming study. Last week letters from the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a letter signed by 20 leading climate researchers voiced strong concerns about the value of the investigation as well as its intimidating approach. In addition, Congressional leaders of both parties spoke out strongly against the investigation, calling it 'misguided and illegitimate.'

'Rep. Barton receives thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Exxon/Mobil, the fossil fuel dinosaur that has a long and unflattering history of funding junk science to cast doubt on the fact that burning oil and other fossil fuels is a major factor in global warming."

(Via Union of Concerned Scientists.)