Senators Attempt to Stifle Global Warming Dissent

In another Bob Novak report, liberal senators from both parties are trying to stifle dissent from those who don't buy into the liberal orthodoxy on global warming:

Two senior senators, Democrat Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine, are pressuring ExxonMobil Corp. to stop funding scientists who question the conventional liberal wisdom on global warming.

In an Oct. 27 letter to ExxonMobil CEO Rex W. Tillerson in Irving, Texas, the senators charged that the oil company's position has "made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy." Actually, U.S. government policy, as set by President Bush, is skeptical about global warming.

"We must request," said the Rockefeller-Snowe letter, "that ExxonMobil end any further financial assistance or other support to groups or individuals whose public advocacy has contributed to the small, but unfortunately effective, climate change denial myth."

We certainly can't allow any funding for scientists who might not agree with the current religion of global warming. Hopefully ExxonMobil will tell the esteemed senators to go pound sand.