We could save time by listing what, about this piece, isn’t paid for by Exxon and the Koch brothers.

The author, still at George Mason University, manages to work for the Mercatus Center in between Daily Caller pieces about the dangers posed by an out-of-control Sierra Club, the inherent safety of fracking and the sinister threat of rooftop solar power. The publisher, with a journalistic record several notches below that of BeforeItsNews.com, is owned by Koch confidante and fundraising partner Foster Friess. You may remember this well-heeled feller as a co-founder of FreedomWorks. You know, the collosal slush fund that founded the Tea Party.

Oh, and what a choice selection of signatories! Have a look through what’s being passed off as a set of scientists. C’mon, give that gang a once-over, why don’t you. See anything in common?

The congresscritter in charge of the now-farcical anti-science "House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology," Rep. Lamar Smith, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exxon, getting more payoffs from fossil fuels than any other industry, is how the Kochs got congressional subpoena power with which to witch-hunt federal climate scientists.

Much as there were those who, once they’d gotten the president’s ‘long form’ birth certificate then sternly demanded his complete college transcripts, this grandstanding idjut, unsatisfied by the long-since-past complete public release of his going MacGuffin, now struts and pecks about the barnyard demanding evidence that does not exist about crimes he cannot name, though if it's conspiracy theories you're after, he's got those. Having already compelled as much testimony and as many federal employee emails as he possibly could, doubtless this circus sideshow is meant to build up steam for a new round of pointless influence-peddling theater. His pool doesn’t heat itself, you know.

Yet another bought-and-paid-for bogus scandal meant to murky-up the truth about climatic changes we see around us every day.

People intent on denying climate change tend to pick one particular reason at-a-time why none of it’s true, right? One already-debunked, worthless-to-the-debate, magical-thinking nostrum they’ll pretend — if they suck their thumbs hard enough and really believe — means they have nothing to fear. Horseshit like this is supposed to encourage them. There’ll be thumbsuckers, not known for their principled belief in open-eyed, clear-minded and thorough investigation of the physical world in which they live, that’ll see this and know they’re right. When confronted by irrefutable evidence that their latest fantasy is exactly that, they’ll switch to another. Unthinking denial, just like this garbage.

OP, what’s your story here? Is this interesting? Is there a nuance here that’s gone completely over my head? Is this a classic moment in history, like: “Oh, how we’re we going to look back on this and laugh so hard in fifty years...” or something?