Since Bookbinder is both currently a litigator in a set of global
warming lawsuits against industries which supposedly paid «shill scientists» to lie, and was involved in a similar way
back in 2010 as the Mother Jones article points out, those are relevant questions to ask.
But a document filed in a federal
lawsuit demonstrates that even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science
backing the role of greenhouse gases in global
warming could not be refuted.