In response to the Copenhagen Climate Summit, some other "scientists" are holding an alternative meeting down the street, where they are telling The Real Truth about global warming. One of them apparently is advancing the shocking thesis that the Earth is warmed by the Sun, rather than by the rays of light from Jesus' heart.
One thing I've never understood about skeptics of global warming is that their conspiracy theory involves vast sums of money. One Graeme Capper of some nutty organization says, ""There are people who know they are lying and do it simply for money and others who think they are doing good," he said. "But they not good scientists."(I don't know whether to put sic there or not, since I don't know if Graeme speaks pidgin English or if it was just poorly transcribed.) My right-wing boss once gave me a "book" called The Green Conspiracy, or something like that (there's no way I'm looking this up), and the premise of the book was that all these scientists were making scads, tons, piles of money by taking part in this conspiracy. To which I say, quoi? Do these people have any idea what the academy pays? Do they not understand that people who get Ph.D.s have voluntarily chosen to spend 6-8 prime earning years making slightly less than a gas station attendant?
In this alternate reality, liberal elitists with all their fancy book learning are making millions of dollars lying to ordinary people, just cold forcing people to recycle and not dump sewage into streams even though the Founding Fathers SAID WE COULD SHIT WHEREVER WE WANTED IT'S IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS PEOPLE. Meanwhile, those oil companies who are booking record profits every quarter? Just altruistic truth-tellin' Real Americans, clearly.
