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Here is an important rule of thumb when you see a television commercial sponsored by an oil company: Don’t believe a word it says.

Some time ago, I posted a piece about the oil industry’s shenanigans when California voted a couple of years ago on a ballot initiative to increase its gasoline tax. The measure was heavily supported by voters until the oil industry went on the air and warned that everyone’s gasoline prices would go up. The TV spots showed a distressed woman pumping gas as the price went ka-ching, ka-ching.

Hugh Hewitt, the worshipped conservative talk show host who regularly spits venom at anyone who dares suggest that the globe is warming, is showing hints of a conversion. Believe it:

Posting from the Amazon is a bit of a challenge, but this story was the subject of a presentation I attended by Jean-Michel Cousteau. Cousteau avoids the emotional alarmism of much of the climate change debate, and his short presentation on the glacier retreat in the Andes was the sort of presentation that climate change skeptics need to examine in detail.

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