S. Fred Singer and the Global Warming Denial Machine

onMar 25, 2008 @ 13:41 PDT

ABC News aired a sweeping piece on career contrarion S. Fred Singer, a character well-known to us here at the DeSmogBlog.

The 84-year old “grandfather of the global warming ‘skeptics’” shows just how over the edge he is in the following exchange:

ABC Anchor, Dan Harris: There are so many scientists who disagree with what you’re saying, the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], NASA, NOAA, the National Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society – we’re talking about scientists all over the globe.

S. Fred Singer: What can I say? They’re wrong.

Harris: All of those people are wrong?

S. Fred Singer: Yes.

Of course one could argue that Singer is some kind of modern day Galileo. However, that’s more than a bit of a stretch when you consider Singer’s connections to the oil and tobacco industry.

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