This Moment on Earth: on Energy & Oil

Global Warming as "hoax" is funded by Big Oil & GOP

Big oil & their Republican allies in Congress have gone to great lengths to both muddle the facts & stifle efforts to address climate change. Oil companies have given money to advocacy organizations that deny the science behind global warming theory & have taken out full-page ads in major newspapers questioning the role of man-made emissions in climate change. When Americans see ads like that, and hear their leaders claiming that climate change is a "hoax," no wonder we are one of the few nations that have not wholeheartedly embraced both the science & the urgent need to act.

Here is the reality of global climate change. At both poles & nearly all points in between, the temperature of Earth's surface is heating up. Nearly every researcher professionally engaged in the study of climate change, from across the political and ideological spectrum, agrees that the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused by human activity is responsible for the current warming trend

Source: This Moment On Earth, by John & Teresa Kerry, p.119-122 Jan 1, 2007

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