Global warming critic paid by energy utilities

New York Times: Coal-burning utilities are contributing money University of Virginia professor, Patrick J. Michaels, one of the few remaining climate scientists openly critical of the broad consensus that fossil fuel emissions are intensifying global warming.Dr. Michaels told Western business leaders last year that he was running out of money for his analyses of other scientists’ global warming research. So a Colorado utility organized a collection campaign for him last week and has raised at least $150,000 in donations and pledges. Michaels is part of a group of well known global warming skeptics that receive money from the fossil fuel industry. Their public campaign against man-made climate change has helped some politicans decry the general science consensus that climate change is happening.