A Koch-funded scientist & global warming skeptic now admits man-made global warming is real. Thoughts?

Here's an incomplete list of skeptics from wikipedia (NOTE - names only available on wiki, extra information gathered from listed sources): Khabibullo Abdusamatov - Russian astrophysicist - cannot find connections. Sallie Baliunas - Yep. http://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliuna... David Bellamy - I cannot find sources saying he received direct funding, but he is a member of the Fraser Institute, which has received $120,000 from ExxonMobil.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personf... George V. Chilingar - I cannot find explicit funding, though he is a leading petroleum engineer. Again though, no funding.

Ian Clark - Is affiliated with CEI, which has received over $2 million from Exxon since '98. However, most of this funding appears to be in the form of operating support, etc. $180,000 for climate change. http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfact... http://cei.org/gencon/003,04017.cfm Chris de Freitas - Heartland Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1271 David Douglass - Heartland Institute affiliation - HI received $676,500 from Exxon.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1175 http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41 Don Easterbrook - Affiliated with Heartland Institute. http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1327 William M. Gray - Heartland again.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1304 William Happer - George C Marshall Institute affiliation (chairman of BoD) - received $840,000 from Exxon, a LOT in climate change area: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=36.

McIntyre funds his "audits" out of pocket, and Spencer/Christy's research are funded by NSF, NOAA, NASA, DOE just like everyone else, and do manage to get some of their "skeptical" research published. That's why I don't think it's fair to lump in those three with the likes of Singer or Soon. It's also the reason I don't like the way exxonsecrets is structured -- they mention an association with e.g. Heartland, but don't discuss the nature of the association.

Room and board in exchange for a presentation at a conference is hardly what I would call "being paid-off", unless their standards for bribery are ridiculously low. The reason we should ignore them is much simpler; they offer no coherent arguments against AGW.

I hope that they quickly get it going though, before I freeze to death in southern Arizona. Interstate 40 is closed due to excessive global warming and Grand Canyon is roasting due to global warming.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.