Nonsense about Denying the Existence of Global Warming

So Exxon-Mobil, the largest oil refiner in the world, held a conference today at which skeptics of global warming were able to stand atop their soapboxes. Many skeptics are using the current winter season as proof that global warming is not happening.

Well, let's think about this...

A company that is entirely dependent on environment harming processes and is one of the largest produces of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming is hosting this conference. There seems to be a vested interest at play here.

Let's also consider that, as far as I know, an overwhelming majority of the scientific community has shown that global warming is indeed happening. Moreover, a body of scientists put together solely for the study of global warming came out within the past year saying that they are very confident that humans are the main contributors to global warming.

Trying to use one season as irrevocable proof of a trend is like looking at the price of a stock on one day and determining where it will be in three weeks based solely on that bit of information. In truth, this winter has been average and this past December was one of the warmer ones on record. Nevermind the fact that something like eight of the warmest years on record have been since 1990.

Most of the people who deny global warming are non-scientific amateurs (or morons, e.g. Glenn Beck) who have no better idea than anyone else on the street or they are members of an industry that would be hindered by policies to alleviate global warming.

Another thing: it really seems that the only anti-global warming sentiment is coming from America (I, of course, could be entirely wrong but I have heard of no strong opposition from elsewhere in the world). To me, that just screams that the corporate interests of those who would be held back by measures to ameliorate the effects of global warming are so pervasive that they have a foothold across the country. It also suggests that a sizable chunk of the country does not pay attention to science.

(You'll have to forgive me if any of that information is incorrect. I wrote this from memory, so I may have misquoted. However, I am confident that most of the information I refer to is valid.)