Ahh Exxon - Climate Change Specialists

Nothing to pull me out of the doldrums like big corporations funding bad science from an ivy league school that is afraid of peer review. Check this out from New Sci...

"The US House Committee on Science and Technology is scrutinizing ExxonMobil's motives for funding research by an astrophysicist into the impact of climate change on the polar bear population of western Hudson Bay in Canada. If the polar bear is listed under the Endangered Species Act, steps to protect its habitat could directly hurt ExxonMobil's economic interests, subcommittee chair Brad Miller wrote in an open letter to the oil giant. The researchers, including Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, published their findings as a "viewpoint", which is not peer-reviewed. They conclude that the polar bears are not threatened by climate change... "

go figure... put it out there for peer review and we'll talk...

First off - an astrophysicist is not, last time I checked, qualified to say much about biology, habitat, or ecology - guess they ran out of stoolies in the right field... That would be like me choosing the parts for the supercollider... or putting out an opinion piece on Neutrinos...

Second... I can only say that things like this hurt the reputation of Harvard, the Smithsonian, Astrophysicists everywhere, and probably the city of Cambridge Mass....but most of all - the polar bears.

Lastly, Exxon - if you want to contribute to the arctic, how about finally getting around to paying all the money you owe for the Valdez, or are you hoping the world has forgotten what a disgrace your company is?

Ahh, one more thing. THANK YOU BRAD MILLER and the US House Committee on Science and Technology for starting to cut through the smoke and mirrors. The people of the US have had about enough of that.