Commentary by Marita Noon

"If you don't call it something, you can't connect the dots," said Rudy Giuliani talking about ISIS. "If you can't connect the dots, you can't really combat it ... you can't have the battle of ideas ... If you are going to debate it, you have to call it what it is."

The same can be said about the organized attack on fossil fuel development and use in America. If you don't acknowledge a battle of ideas exists, you can't connect the dots, and you can't really combat it.

It has recently been revealed that Russia is laundering tens of millions of dollars through Bermuda, which the California-based Sea Change Foundation doles out to some of the most prominent and politically active anti-fossil fuel groups such as the Sierra Club and the Natural Resource Defense Council. Reports indicate that OPEC countries funded the anti-fracking movies Gasland and Promise Land. Of course, we know that billionaire activist Tom Steyer