The Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.'s favorite industry-funded "environmental think tank," offered up a definitive article on climate change in July of this year.
The CEI began by saying: "Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it."
You can click here and read the entire, tortured, outdated 2,913-word argument about how that's really okay -- how facing the problem might cause economic dislocation among CEI's major funders -- but we think we have excerpted the most important part of the paper in those opening 14 words.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
You don't see this every day. President Barack Obama used Twitter today to call out climate deniers in Congress who are blocking political action to address climate change. 
The tweet links to this video released by Organizing for Action, the 501(c)(4) campaign group that promotes the President's national agenda.
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