Sounds like a horrible Nicolas Cage movie doesn't it?

But it's in fact the brilliant, funny, and very sad cover story of a recent Rolling Stone issue where they look at the "17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming."  From Warren Buffett (a sometime key advisor to Obama) to a Democratic Senator from Louisiana and every fat-pocketed big oil exec in between - to yep, you guessed it Senator James Inhofe - Rolling Stone looks at why these people can't afford for the world to know the truth.  And why they can't afford to accept reality.

As entertaining as it was on its own merit - the cover story really got interesting when the aforementioned Senator Inhofe took exception to NOT being named the top killer - this despite the list NOT being ranked.  Here's Rolling Stone's comment: [Rolling Stone should note that, strictly speaking, our package wasn't a ranking — although Warren Buffett does appear on the first page, while Inhofe rears his ugly mug a few pages later.]
And here is what the man Rolling Stone called "God's Denier" had to say for himself: “I should have been number one.  I guess Buffett has a lot more money so he went first.”  He wasn't done there, he took his "pity party" as Rolling Stone said to the Tulsa World: “My first response was I should have been No. 1, not No. 7. I am serious about that,” he said. “I have spent now literally years on this thing, and it has been a long, involved thing.”

 

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