GREAT PIECE ALERT. Check out this terrific Guardian scoop on AEI offering scientists $10,000 to produce studies refuting the UN global warming report. AEI has received, the article also notes (while not specifying a time period), $1.6 million from Exxon-Mobil. This, on the same day the Times reports that Exxon reported record profits again — $39.5 billion-with-a-b in 2006.

–Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky is the American editor-at-large of the Guardian (UK). He was executive editor of the Prospect from 2003 to 2006.