Like Oil and Water?  Can Religion Cooperate with Science to Counter Adverse Global Environmental Change?  In their 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press), historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway traced the political roots of popular skepticism concerning the scientific research examining the health and safety impacts of major corporate and technological sectors.  Professional science administrators and lobbyists have worked on “behalf” of capitalism, free markets, and NATO to curtail public concerns about the tobacco, nuclear, and petroleum industries. Their methods cast the scientists studying nuclear winter and changes in the atmosphere’s gaseous composition as left-wing, self-interested, economic nay-sayers. These critics assert the geophysical models underlying studies of global warming are highly