Edited sentence: Beam quoted Environmental Defense attorney Jim Marston's attack on Lindzen and other scientists,``We know that General Motors has been paying for this fake science exactly as the tobacco companies did,".But according to Beam, Lindzen said he never communicated with the auto companies involved in the lawsuit and added,``This is the criminalization of opposition to global warming,".In the same Globe article, Beam referred to a lawsuit he had read about, brought by auto companies against the state of California, Environmental Defense, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.Lindzen's research was cited in the lawsuit, and according to Beam,'California et al.has asked the auto companies to cough up any and all communications they have had with Lindzen and his colleagues'