As readers might know, I have been contacting scientists/academics on the Heartland Institute Expert list and asking if, in light of the Institute’s billboard fiasco, they intend to remain on said list. This afternoon I received the following response from research meteorologist Chris Landsea: Dear M.J. Murphy, I recall that several years
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland/Hudson Senior Fellow Dennis Avery Doubles Down On Billboard Campaign
So, for the past couple of days I have been sending out emails to those scientist/intellectual types on the Heartland Institute’s Expert pages, letting them know that 1) they are in fact listed as HI experts (which some of them may not realize), and 2) that HI recently launched a
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: No Charges Filed Against Gleick
As readers may remember, Peter Gleick is the hydroclimatologist who suckered the Heartland Institute out of some of their budget documents, which act has, directly or indirectly, resulted in HI’s losing $100,000s in funding from its corporate sponsors. After Mr. Gleick’s identity was revealed, rumors swirled re lawsuits and possible charges laid against
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland Institute Loses Another Sponsor After PR Fiasco
So, late last week The Heartland Institute puts up this bill-board outside of Chicago: …with the promise of more ads to come, featuring other notables such as Osama Bin Laden. The billboard, lets just say, gets noticed. Leo Hickman is first out of the gate: It really is hard to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Windmills Do Not Cause Global Warming
Contrary to what you might have heard. Instead, this is what happens: …wind turbines mix up the cold and warm layers of air by dragging cold air from the ground up high into the air (where it’s normally warmer) and by dragging warm air from high up down to the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canadian Greenhouse Emissions Thrown Off By Bugs
Simon Donner has a couple of posts on Canadian Green House Gas emissions and the government’s spin on them. In the first, he notes that: GHG emissions grew by only 2 Mt CO2e (that includes CO2 plus other GHGs converted to “units” of CO2) despite the fact that the economy was rebounding from the recession.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Polar Bear Potpourri
Recently, the Nunavut government sponsored an aerial survey of the Hudson Bay polar population in which they concluded that: “[T]he bear population is not in crisis as people believed,” said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut’s director of wildlife management. “There is no doom and gloom.” Mr. Gissing added that the government isn’t
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Shoe Is On The Other Foot
OTTAWA — While it has aggressively slammed environmental groups for using foreign dollars to finance a small portion of their budgets, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is being tight-lipped about revelations that climate change skeptics in Canada are getting money from an American think-tank with corporate funding. Another good piece
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Suzuki Vs. The Canadian Senate
Amidst all the rhetorical hippy kicking and general wingnuttery in the Senate over Northern Gateway and the tar sands recently (for example Senator Finley and his “It should never be considered a charitable act to attack Canada’s oilsands” line), Tory Senator Larry W. Smith issued a press release (on March 7,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Denialists In The Canadian Classroom
In the last couple of weeks, stories in the American media have appeared outlining how the Heartland Institute has been plotting to sneak climate change denialism onto the U.S. K12 curriculum. Unfortunately, we in Canada are way ahead of them. As I have noted previously, Tom Harris (once of the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another Big NO!
The Prince Rupert City Council voted unanimously on Monday night to formally oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, making it the third northern BC local government to do so over the past few weeks. Gee whiz, more people come out against the national interest. We’re almost up to 50 per
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartlandgate: Update
Finally, the story of The Heartland Institute’s attempt to infiltrate the American school system and teach kids to deny science has reached Canadian news outlets. Meanwhile, two days into scandal, CEO Joe Bast and the other players at HI have had time to write any number of blog posts, and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canucks On Heartland Institute Payroll
DeSmog Blog has dropped the bomb: leaked documents from the Heartland Institute outlining their campaign against the science of AGW. Goals include hiring a fellow named David Wojick to write up a K9 curriculum contra the evidence for AGW: His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: They Believe
Joe Oliver was asked during QP yesterday whether he “believed” in Global Warming, and seemed to suggest that it was all a matter of theology. Not good. MERX is Canada’s electronic tendering service. Among other things, its where the gov. goes to hire scientists to think on behalf of the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Climate Scientists Send In The Lawyers
Climate Science Legal Defense Fund Gets New Backing PEER Sponsors Effort to Counter Fossil-Fueled Attacks on Climate Scientists Washington, DC — The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) has found a non-profit home in Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) which provides it fiscal sponsorship and logistical support. CSLDF lets
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Denier Defunded
The much-criticised author and climate policy sceptic Bjorn Lomborg has told the Ecologist he is the victim of a vendetta after his funding was cut by the Danish government. Bjorn’s complaints ring hollow; he has been criticized for several years by players from all across Denmark’s political spectrum.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: We’re Number 9!
Nine of the ten hottest years on record have been since 2000. 2011 was the ninth hottest year on record, and those records go back 130 years. Just a reminder. Nature doesn’t care what’s on or off the political agenda.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: RUMOUR: Trojan Brand Will Avoid Tar Sands Fuel When Shipping Condoms
…in an attempt to reduce company’s carbon foot-print! What will the folks at Ethical Oil do about this latest outrage? PS. Real easy to find pictures of prophylactic wrapped bananas on Google Image. Almost too easy.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On Canadian Churches, Climate Change, And Durban
Its all good, but my favorite bit is about how The National Post felt it necessary to spike Rex Murphy’s geriatric rage at the fact a mere African might dare to criticize Canada’s environmental record: The advertisement generated a torrent of exaggerated invective from some of the usual suspects – including CBC
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