Some Like It Hot. While I do not like Kyoto . In recent days on Mother Jones, a webzine of American investigative journalism, it became a special devoted entirely to global warming and the fight that in recent years has seen a united front to oppose wider range of scientists, environmentalists and governments against a powerful lobby "Holocaust denier", whose focus has been the U.S. and the multinational Exxon-Mobil .
At stake was not only adherence to the Kyoto Protocol, but the same scientific theories behind global warming. So the magazine articles recount the struggle of 90 years - which saw the industry of fossil fuels, gathered in the Global Climate Coalition, recruit American journalists to discredit the climate models developed by researchers. And then the powerful lobbying campaign of Exxon, with its funding to more than forty scientific-political think tank.
Today, after 15 years in which the consensus among scientists on the human contribution to global warming has soared, despite the approval of Kyoto, denying those forces are still powerful. It is perhaps worth questioning how it was possible.
See the special Mother Jones.
And see also my article published yesterday on Manifesto.
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