Clearing Up The Climate Debate Smog

I wanted to highlight another blog today. There is actually a funny story behind this blog and how I discovered it. I was in the grocery store a month or two ago and saw someone wearing a jacket with this web address on the back of it. It's name caught my attention so I decided to check it out. You can follow my discovery by checking out DeSmogBlog.com.

It actually took me a while to figure out what side of the climate change debate this blog was on. It was not long, however, until I found this explanation on the site:

DeSmogBlog exists to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science on climate change.

An overwhelming majority of the world’s climate scientists agree that the globe is warming - the world's climate is changing - and that the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels is to blame. We know that the risks are incalculable and, increasingly, we understand that the solutions are affordable.

Unfortunately, a well-funded and highly organized public relations campaign is poisoning the climate change debate. Using tricks and stunts that unsavory PR firms invented for the tobacco lobby, energy-industry contrarians are trying to confuse the public, to forestall individual and political actions that might cut into exorbitant coal, oil and gas industry profits. DeSmogBlog is here to cry foul - to shine the light on techniques and tactics that reflect badly on the PR industry and are, ultimately, bad for the planet.

So basically, they are here to counter the points of the scientists who refute global warming. I have checked this blog out occasionally over the past few weeks and months and have found some interesting things in it.

Check it out if you're interested...