Well well...look who's behind the UK Gore attack.

In completely SHOCKING! news, it has come to be known that Stewart Gimmick Dimmock, he of the so-called David v Goliath battle over schools in Britain "brainwashing" students with Academy and Nobel Peace Prize-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", was funded by...drumroll please........

....a powerful network of business interests with close links to the fuel and mining lobbies. He was also supported by a Conservative councillor in Hampshire, Derek Tipp

Well kick my can and call me Nancy Reagan! Fuel and mining lobbies, you say? (H/T to Linda in SFNM at Kos)

(For the backstory on this, see this linky. For a refutation of the "errors" the judge found, see this linky.)

I know you are all as completely surprised as I was to hear this news. I mean, who'd have thunk that when you followed the money, you'd find the fuel and mining industries trying to smear Al Gore and actual science on climate change?

Dimmock credited the little-known New Party with supporting him in the test case but did not elaborate on its involvement. The obscure Scotland-based party calls itself 'centre right' and campaigns for lower taxes and expanding nuclear power.

Records filed at the Electoral Commission show the New Party has received nearly all of its money - almost £1m between 2004 and 2006 - from Cloburn Quarry Limited, based in Lanarkshire.

The company's owner and chairman of the New Party, Robert Durward, is a long-time critic of environmentalists. With Mark Adams, a former private secretary to Tony Blair, he set up the Scientific Alliance, a not-for-profit body comprising scientists and non-scientists, which aims to challenge many of the claims about global warming.

Ahem. About that Scientific Alliance:

In 2004 the alliance co-authored a report with the George C Marshall Institute, a US body funded by Exxon Mobil, that attacked climate change claims. 'Climate change science has fallen victim to heated political and media rhetoric ... the result is extensive misunderstanding,' the report's authors said.

Follow the money on climate change denial and you always end up at stunningly evil Exxon Mobil. The Exxon that gave "World's Jowliest Man" Lee Raymond a $400 million golden parachute. The Exxon that regularly makes profits - you know, the money left over after the bills are paid, the cream off the top - of $30 billion +. The Exxon that offered a $10,000 bribe to scientists to undermine a major climate change report. Colour me stunned! I think I have the vapours - someone guide me to the fainting couch!

I have zero faith that these rapists of the earth, air, and water will ever stop trying to fuck over the entire world so that some bloated CEO can get a retirement package worth almost a half billion dollars while the rest of us succumb to deaths, illness and poverty because of their pathological greed and gluttony.

FUCK Exxon. CONSERVE!

Update - Dr. Dawg's Blog has a really excellent rundown/smackdown of the "errors" cited by the UK judge. Check it out.