This week, Rolling Stone has an article profiling some of the most powerful polluters and climate change deniers working day and night to derail efforts to scale back global warming. Not surprisingly, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue made the list of climate killers--he'a actually dubbed "The Know Nothing." Author Tim Dickson also points out the extreme anti-climate position staked out by Donohue & the Chamber doesn't represent the interests of the corporate front group's own members.

Of the 23 companies on the Chamber's board that made their position on climate legislation public, only four are against it -- and three of those are coal companies. Yet the Chamber claims, in scaremongering language, that climate legislation threatens to "completely shut the country down" and "virtually destroy the United States." For his part, Donohue is proudly ignorant of the risks that a changing climate poses to the business community: "Is the science right? Is science not right? I don't know."

Keeping with the theme of "knowing nothing," the Chamber released a new TV anti-reform ad yesterday that is airing in several states.

From the ad transcript:

"Hidden health care taxes on medicines, medical devices and health insurance. Hidden health care taxes, in the middle of a deep recession. Call Congress. Tell them, no hidden health care taxes in a recession."

Perhaps this will come as a shock to the Chamber, but both bills--the Senate health bill and the House health bill--along with all their provisions, are posted online. And that's the great thing about the Internet, folks...EVERYONE can use it! This isn't a game of hide 'n' seek.

Media Matters for America debunks the claims put forth in the Chamber's healthcare ad--check out their fact check here.