He is certainly a major voice in the discussion of global warming and alternate energy, but it is NOT diverting the discussion from science to note how very controversial he is.

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"The influence Robinson and the others have is to muddy the waters and delay action on global warming,' says Sheldon Rampton, research director for the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit organization that promotes media literacy. 'I thought he was thoroughly discredited years ago,' Rampton says. 'But the global-warming skeptics certainly haven't given up. And they seem willing to promote anyone who can be half-plausibly sold as an expert."

He has been praised & promoted by Fox 'News', Glenn Beck and other questionable right-wing sources...and supported by Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who is, in my not-so-humble opinion, one of the dumbest members of the US Senate.

Everyone has the right to an opinion about the issue, but not a right to their own facts. I shall continue to make clear the biased & distorted views of Robinson to counter the versions being posted by pdq.