NYT must-read on how big polluters "Madoffed" the American people

When former VP Al Gore said at the hearing today that big polluters perpetrated a bigger fraud on the American people than Bernie Madoff, this is what he was talking about:

For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.

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But a document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.

Keep this story in mind next time you see another ad on how ExxonMobil is going "green." More on the Times story at Climate Progress.