Scoop: NZCPR Weekly: The Cold Winds of 2008

...Similarly, some of those in the business sector are prepared to turn a convenient blind eye to the hoax. At the forefront of the global warming merry-go-round is Al Gore and others who have invested heavily in green businesses and are fighting tooth and nail to keep the sceptical science community at bay in order to ensure their green empires continue to grow at the expense of a gullible public.

However, many businesses and industries that will be badly effected by the introduction of emissions trading schemes and the like, have remained silent, loathe to speak out too forcefully in case they are labelled as irresponsible corporate citizens by mad environmentalists who have the power to create damaging adverse publicity.