On a recent episode of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart interviewed Christopher Horner, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism".
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is an organization dedicated to, among other things, supposedly waging a battle against global warming alarmism. CEI is also an organization which has accepted large donations from such environment friendly companies as Amoco, CSX, Philip Morris and Texaco. In addition to those companies, ExxonMobil has donated a total of more than $2 million to CEI. Myron Ebell, the organization's Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy, has asserted that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the European Union and the rest of the world in order to harm the U.S. economy. Possibly even more unbelievable than Ebell is Steven Milloy, an Adjunct Scholar at CEI. Aside from being an advocate for Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, Milloy has served as a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, Dow Chemical and FMC. (And those are just 2 members of CEI.) Last but certainly not least, CEI claims that the Wall Street Journal has referred to the organization as "the best environmental think tank in the country". However, I have scoured the Internet and have been unable to find any article where that statement is made.
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There are a lot of dodgy quotes on their brochure (See Myron Ebell Climate). Since the newspapers have often published op-ed pieces by people from the CEI, this could have been a quote by one of them from 20 years ago.
It also depends on what you mean by "best", as in "I'll get you the best lawyer who can get you off on your charge for murder for which you are obviously guilty."
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