Misrepresenting Climate Scientists

If Think Progress has it right, it appears one of the experts the oil companies are quoting doesn't appreciate the misrepresentation of his work:

On Wednesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a front group funded by ExxonMobil and other big oil companies – launched two advertisements in response to Al Gore’s new movie about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.

One of the advertisements attempts to show that the scientific evidence for global warming is in dispute, claiming a study found the “Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner.”

The primary author of that study, Curt Davis, has issued statement blasting CEI’s use of his study.

If the oil companies would cooperate in developing alternative energy, and if they were to slow down the production of oil as other forms of energy come online, they'll still be making huge profits for many decades to come. Maybe it's time for oil company executives to give it up and join the human race.