Frightening article...did the Bush Administration scare scientists into "misinforming" us about climate change?

http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/back-to-reality/?8dpc

"Back to Reality" by Olivia Judson

And this again reinforces my point of this blog. The majority of scientists are in almost complete agreement on the fact that climate change is going to pose severe problems such as global warming, and destruction of animal, plant, human life, and the way our earth system works. Yet the tiny percentage of scientists who claim that reducing carbon emissions is useless and decry that this need for maintaining climate change is a myth have been getting much attention from our previous administration. If one didnt know any better, one would think that there was a long ongoing climate debate amongst scientists.

Reminds me of the movie - "Thank You for Smoking", where the big tobacco companies pay medical doctors and scientists to claim that smoking does not in fact lead to lung cancer.