More Lies

Hat tip to Think Progress for pointing out a series of lies being told by Congressional Republican leaders about proposals to limit global warming pollution.

The claim: a 2007 MIT study found that proposals to cap global warming pollution would cost $3,100 per person per year.

The truth: The study's author says the study is being misinterpreted and the actual figure is just $31 per person per year.

Evidently, the staff for the Republican leadership called one of the study authors and told him ahead of time their interpretation of the data and he told them they were misinterpreting it and why.  But that hasn't stopped them from repeating it ad nauseum.

PolitiFact quotes one of the study authors:  "It's just wrong," said John Reilly, an energy, environmental and agricultural economist at M.I.T. and one of the authors of the report. "It's wrong in so many ways it's hard to begin."

Bottom line: do not trust the so-called facts put out by global warming deniers and apologists for the oil and gas industry. They lie. Pure and simple lie.