This shows how deep greed really goes:

One Colorado electric cooperative has openly admitted that it has paid $100,000 to a university academic who prides himself on being a global warming skeptic.

Intermountain Rural Electric Association is heavily invested in power plants that burn coal, one of the chief sources of greenhouse gasses that scientists agree is quickly pushing earth’s average temperature to dangerous levels.

Scientists and consumer advocates say the co-op is trying to confuse its clients about the virtually total scientific consensus on the causes of global warming.

ABC News has obtained a copy of a nine-page document that IREA general manager Stanley Lewandowski Jr. addressed to the more than 900 fellow members of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

The document is a wide-ranging condemnation of carbon taxes and mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions that Lewandowski writes would threaten to “erode most, if not all, the benefits of coal-fired generation.”

That’s it . Screw life and our planet, as long as some greedy bastards get their money. These people should be tried as being “environmental terrorists”, because that is exactly what they are. Their victims have been and will continue to be far greater than that of any other terrorist organization the world has ever seen. The really bad part is that these are the criminals that the radical right defends.