The Truth about the Gulf Oil Spill, and FACTS to back it up

I have no doubts that there is greed behind this oil spill!
But the author of this article has lost me completely when I read a passage stating that global warming is a scam and offers this link which has no credibility.

At first when you follow this link you will be led to an Oregon petition project signed by more than 30,000 "scientists" denying global warming as man made. This petition is supported by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Guess who founded it?
It was founded by Dr. Frederick Seitz:

"A June 2000 Business Week article referred to physicist Frederick Seitz as "the granddaddy of global-warming skeptics". Seitz was once a director and shareholder of a company that operated coal-fired power plants.

Dr. Seitz is a former President of the National Academy of Sciences, but the Academy disassociated itself from Seitz in 1998 when Seitz headed up a report designed to look like an NAS journal article saying that carbon dioxide poses no threat to climate. The report, which was supposedly signed by 15,000 scientists, advocated the abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol. The NAS went to unusual lengths to publically distance itself from Seitz' article. Seitz signed the 1995 Leipzig Declaration."
From http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=6, a project by GREENPEACE. At exxonsecrets.org you will find a good list of all the organizations that receive funds from the oil industry and disguise themselves as the good people.

A few blogs among many that talk about this false and incorrect petition:
http://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/oregon-petition-redux/

http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/one-more-petition-still-a-consensus/
"Of 60 samples (including 54 phD’s), there were a grand total of zero publications behind the sampled signatories that were relevant to climate or climate change. None has specific background in meteorology, climatology, oceanography, etc and just two with a geology background (including one who is now deceased)."

Also I truly recommend anyone to read this article by George Monbiot about Exxon and the financed global warming denial and the connection with the tobacco industry:

"Anyone with a degree was entitled to sign it. It was attached to a letter written by Seitz, entitled Research Review of Global Warming Evidence. The lead author of the "review" that followed Seitz's letter is a Christian fundamentalist called Arthur B Robinson. He is not a professional climate scientist. It was co-published by Robinson's organisation - the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine - and an outfit called the George C Marshall Institute, which has received $630,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. The other authors were Robinson's 22-year-old son and two employees of the George C Marshall Institute. The chairman of the George C Marshall Institute was Frederick Seitz."

Two more excerpts:
Not only that but Dr. Seitz "became a permanent consultant to the tobacco company RJ Reynolds. He worked for the firm until at least 1987, for an annual fee of $65,000. He was in charge of deciding which medical research projects the company should fund, and handed out millions of dollars a year to American universities. The purpose of this funding, a memo from the chairman of RJ Reynolds shows, was to "refute the criticisms against cigarettes". An undated note in the Philip Morris archive shows that it was planning a "Seitz symposium" with the help of TASSC, in which Frederick Seitz would speak to '40-60 regulators'."

"While they have been most effective in the United States, the impacts of the climate-change deniers sponsored by Exxon and Philip Morris have been felt all over the world. I have seen their arguments endlessly repeated in Australia, Canada, India, Russia and the UK. By dominating the media debate on climate change during seven or eight critical years in which urgent international talks should have been taking place, by constantly seeding doubt about the science just as it should have been most persuasive, they have justified the money their sponsors have spent on them many times over. It is fair to say that the professional denial industry has delayed effective global action on climate change by years, just as it helped to delay action against the tobacco companies."

Is the author of this article simply misinformed about global warming?

Or are they using the oil spill conspiracy to further the global warming denial by associating them?

If the latter is the case, I have to admit is pretty smart but with a bit of research it all comes down to money and shareholders as usual.

there is no doubt that all parties involved knew something catastrophic was about to happen, all the signs were present on the rig. In legal terms its called recklessness

This guy put an interesting post together, if you find anything that you think is incorrect post it on here.