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From the Right Wing think tank that put up a digital billboard, that associated people who believe in global warming to Ted Kazynski,
Charles Manson, Osama Bin Laden, Fidel Castro, James J. Lee (he took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel )
The Heartland Institute brings you a new, standalone climate wiki! ClimateWiki, moderated and edited by The Heartland Institute,
a free-market think tank with offices in Chicago and Washington, DC. The only way to become a registered user of ClimateWiki
is to first be vetted by the Heartland Institute.
The Heartland Institute- funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop a “global warming curriculum”
for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as “a major scientific controversy.” This effort, at a cost of $100,000 a year, will be
developed by Dr. David E. Wojick, a coal-industry consultant.
The Heartland Institute, which calls itself "a leading source of science and economics questioning claims that man-made global warming is a crisis."
May 03, 2012
Jim Lakely's article
“The most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists,” said Heartland’s president, Joseph Bast. “They are Charles Manson,
a mass murderer; Fidel Castro, a tyrant; and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Global warming alarmists include Osama bin Laden and
James J. Lee (who took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in 2010).
Bast added, “The leaders of the global warming movement have one thing in common: They are willing to use force and fraud to advance their fringe theory.”
-article above is from Heartland Institute's own website
"The ( Heartland Institute) climatewiki is so dangerous because it presents itself as providing 'neutral' information about climate change,
when in fact it is a highly selective and ideologically filtered presentation of climate science and politics.The tactics of organisations like
the Heartland Institute are well known: funding and disseminating information that aims to undermine attempts to regulate carbon emissions.
They have been exposed and discredited on many occasions. But this is more subtle – it's an attempt to make a grab for the very building
blocks of knowledge that the media and political debates develop from. A high school student, in a rush to get their homework assignment
done, is more likely to scan the climatewiki than academic journals. The fact that they won't let people edit the wiki is revealing. They
are doing precisely what they wrongly accuse climate scientists of doing: running a closed shop and preventing open debate.
- Dr Adam Corner - PhD Cardiff
Scientists who have views opposite from Heartland Institute-
“The take home message from the new greenhouse gamble wheels is that if we do little or nothing about lowering greenhouse gas emissions
that the dangers are much greater than we thought three or four years ago,” said Ronald G. Prinn, professor of atmospheric chemistry at MIT.
“It is making the impetus for serious policy much more urgent than we previously thought.”
Lonnie Thompson on why climatologists are speaking out:
“Virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization.”
There is, however, help for teachers and schools facing Heartland's anti-science bullying:
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE), which is a real public charity - and not, as Heartland, a PR agency faking it -
has long helped teachers defend science against creationism. In response to teachers' complaints about getting hassled on
climate, NCSE has broadened its scope and added Mark McCaffrey to address climate science education.
Who has been funding a campaign of disinformation and misrepresentation about global warming?
The Heartland Institute is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as of 2010-2011
Heartland to lose a million in funding
May 7, 2012
The Heartland Institute's failed billboard campaign attacking the existence of climate change is driving a surge of corporate donors
to abandon the group and prompting a mutiny among its Washington-based staff, which is decamping for less volatile surroundings,
according to sources. At the center of the retreat is a contingent of insurance companies and trade groups that donated more than
$1 million over the last two years to the libertarian group's Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., for
programs related to federal insurance reform.
http://www.eenews.net/cw/
GM pulls support for Heartland Institute
March 30, 2012
General Motors announced Wednesday that its General Motors Foundation would no longer be funding the Heartland Institute,
a free-market think tank that has attacked human-caused global warming as “junk science.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/ma...ulls-support-for-heartland-institute-20120330
6 May 2012
Diageo, one of the world's largest drinks companies, has announced it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a rightwing US thinktank.
Diageo North America, Inc. produces, markets, and sells alcoholic beverages in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and North America.
It offers beer products in cans and bottles. The company was formerly known as Guinness UDV North America, Inc. and
changed its name to Diageo North America, Inc. in February 2002. The company was founded in 1997 and is
based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Diageo North America, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Diageo plc Smirnoff, Guinness, and Johnnie Walker!
PepsiCo Distances Itself From Another Right-Wing Group: ‘Currently Not A Member’ Of The Heartland Institute
Apr 5, 2012
The 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy states that the Institute got $200,000 in 2011 from the Charles G. Koch Foundation.
Exxon Mobil stopped giving in 2006?
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41
AT&T Discontinues Funding To Climate-Denier Heartland Institute
Apr 4, 2012
The Scaife Family of Foundations is, “financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding
was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became
chairman of the foundation. According to a recent article, ‘In 1993, the Carthage and Sarah Scaife Foundations…gave more than
$17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks.’”
Charles Manson, Osama Bin Laden, Fidel Castro, James J. Lee (he took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel )
The Heartland Institute brings you a new, standalone climate wiki! ClimateWiki, moderated and edited by The Heartland Institute,
a free-market think tank with offices in Chicago and Washington, DC. The only way to become a registered user of ClimateWiki
is to first be vetted by the Heartland Institute.
The Heartland Institute- funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop a “global warming curriculum”
for elementary schoolchildren that presents climate science as “a major scientific controversy.” This effort, at a cost of $100,000 a year, will be
developed by Dr. David E. Wojick, a coal-industry consultant.
The Heartland Institute, which calls itself "a leading source of science and economics questioning claims that man-made global warming is a crisis."
May 03, 2012
Jim Lakely's article
“The most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists,” said Heartland’s president, Joseph Bast. “They are Charles Manson,
a mass murderer; Fidel Castro, a tyrant; and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Global warming alarmists include Osama bin Laden and
James J. Lee (who took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in 2010).
Bast added, “The leaders of the global warming movement have one thing in common: They are willing to use force and fraud to advance their fringe theory.”
-article above is from Heartland Institute's own website
"The ( Heartland Institute) climatewiki is so dangerous because it presents itself as providing 'neutral' information about climate change,
when in fact it is a highly selective and ideologically filtered presentation of climate science and politics.The tactics of organisations like
the Heartland Institute are well known: funding and disseminating information that aims to undermine attempts to regulate carbon emissions.
They have been exposed and discredited on many occasions. But this is more subtle – it's an attempt to make a grab for the very building
blocks of knowledge that the media and political debates develop from. A high school student, in a rush to get their homework assignment
done, is more likely to scan the climatewiki than academic journals. The fact that they won't let people edit the wiki is revealing. They
are doing precisely what they wrongly accuse climate scientists of doing: running a closed shop and preventing open debate.
- Dr Adam Corner - PhD Cardiff
Scientists who have views opposite from Heartland Institute-
“The take home message from the new greenhouse gamble wheels is that if we do little or nothing about lowering greenhouse gas emissions
that the dangers are much greater than we thought three or four years ago,” said Ronald G. Prinn, professor of atmospheric chemistry at MIT.
“It is making the impetus for serious policy much more urgent than we previously thought.”
Lonnie Thompson on why climatologists are speaking out:
“Virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization.”
There is, however, help for teachers and schools facing Heartland's anti-science bullying:
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE), which is a real public charity - and not, as Heartland, a PR agency faking it -
has long helped teachers defend science against creationism. In response to teachers' complaints about getting hassled on
climate, NCSE has broadened its scope and added Mark McCaffrey to address climate science education.
Who has been funding a campaign of disinformation and misrepresentation about global warming?
The Heartland Institute is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as of 2010-2011
Heartland to lose a million in funding
May 7, 2012
The Heartland Institute's failed billboard campaign attacking the existence of climate change is driving a surge of corporate donors
to abandon the group and prompting a mutiny among its Washington-based staff, which is decamping for less volatile surroundings,
according to sources. At the center of the retreat is a contingent of insurance companies and trade groups that donated more than
$1 million over the last two years to the libertarian group's Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., for
programs related to federal insurance reform.
http://www.eenews.net/cw/
GM pulls support for Heartland Institute
March 30, 2012
General Motors announced Wednesday that its General Motors Foundation would no longer be funding the Heartland Institute,
a free-market think tank that has attacked human-caused global warming as “junk science.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/ma...ulls-support-for-heartland-institute-20120330
6 May 2012
Diageo, one of the world's largest drinks companies, has announced it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a rightwing US thinktank.
Diageo North America, Inc. produces, markets, and sells alcoholic beverages in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and North America.
It offers beer products in cans and bottles. The company was formerly known as Guinness UDV North America, Inc. and
changed its name to Diageo North America, Inc. in February 2002. The company was founded in 1997 and is
based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Diageo North America, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Diageo plc Smirnoff, Guinness, and Johnnie Walker!
PepsiCo Distances Itself From Another Right-Wing Group: ‘Currently Not A Member’ Of The Heartland Institute
Apr 5, 2012
The 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy states that the Institute got $200,000 in 2011 from the Charles G. Koch Foundation.
Exxon Mobil stopped giving in 2006?
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41
AT&T Discontinues Funding To Climate-Denier Heartland Institute
Apr 4, 2012
The Scaife Family of Foundations is, “financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding
was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became
chairman of the foundation. According to a recent article, ‘In 1993, the Carthage and Sarah Scaife Foundations…gave more than
$17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks.’”
