The UK Guardian reports that the Exxon-funded American Enterprise Institute is offering $10 G to any person with a science degree willing to say that <strike>gravity is a hoax, the Earth is flat,</strike> global warming is a bucket of warm spit.
My July, 1968 edition of National Geographic magazine contains a gatefold (2 page) ad from Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Esso), later Exxon, now Exxon Mobil, which reads in part:
“The smog problem is the first order of business. What causes it? What does the sun do to the hundreds of compounds in the air? What turns leaves brown? What irritates our eyes? And finally, the big question. Since nature itself contaminates the air — what exactly is healthy air?”
Sound vaguely familiar ?