Oil-funded Pat Michaels admits solving global warming is a problem of "political acceptability"

Fareed Zakaria: Can I ask you what percentage of your work is funded by the petroleum industry?

Pat Michaels: I don't know. 40 percent? I don't know.

In a telling exchange with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, long-time polluter apologist Pat Michaels conceded that the real challenge of solving manmade global warming is simply the "political acceptability" of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels as climate catastrophes grow. Wonk Room's Brad Johnson has the story.

Michaels, aptly introduced as "a...