Fleedle: Yea but the scientists are correct in their warming predictions less often than the groundhog

BigJay: The groundhogs don't have an agenda

Fleedle: WHY DONT THEY LISTEN TO US?!?!?!? https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

Maynard: The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a advocacy group based in Washington DC with long ties to tobacco disinformation campaigns and more recently to climate change denial. It calls itself "a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. We believe that individuals are best helped not by government intervention, but by making their own choices in a free marketplace.

Maynard: Among it's donors are: Amoco Foundation, Inc. Texaco, Inc. Texaco Foundation CSX Corporation Ford Motor Company Fund Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation David H. Koch Charitable Foundation

Maynard: In a 2006 profile of CEI and other global warming skeptics, Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach noted that "the most generous sponsors" of CEI's 2005 annual dinner were "the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Exxon Mobil, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and Pfizer. Other contributors included General Motors, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council, the Chlorine Chemistry Council and Arch Coal.