It’s official – @wattsupwiththat finally 100% confirmed billionaire Barre Seid is @HeartlandInst #climate denial “anonymous donor” #iccc9— Polluter Watch (@PolluterWatch) July 9, 2014 @Bigcitylib2 @wattsupwiththat @HeartlandInst in conversation, video footage coming. Jim Lakely filmed it–ask him!— Polluter Watch (@PolluterWatch) July 10, 2014 This has long been suspected, but apparently has
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Heatland Institute Vs. Chinese Academy Of Science, Round II
Last week the Heartland got into it with Chinese Academy of Science. The academy had seen fit to translate HI’s Climate Change Reconsidered reports, and PR guy Jim Lakely from the institute suggested that this counted as an endorsement of the think-tank’s position re global warming. But no; CAS begged
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Chinese Academy Of Sciences Issues A Statement; Heartland Institute Issues A Grovelling Apology
First, from the CAS site: The Chinese translation of the “Climate Change Reconsidered—NIPCC Report” was organized by the Information Center for Global Change Studies, Scientific Information Center for Resources and Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was published in May 2013 through Science Press. However, the Heartland Institute
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland Institute/CAS Story Makes UK Guardian
And the story links back to me, so you know its got cred.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Cooperation Between The Heartland Institute And The Chinese Academy Of Sciences: Much Less than Meets The Eye
Breitbart News has reported that the Heartland Institute–an infamous U.S. think-tank that shilled for both the oil and tobacco companies in times past–has teamed up the with Chinese Academy of Sciences to publish HI’s Climate Change Reconsidered documents, which are attempted “rebuttals” of the IPCC consensus report on global warming:The volumes,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pfizer Abandons Heartland Institute
From one of the very few media outlets that has bothered to pick up the story, an early Xmas gift: A major pharmaceutical company has opted to sever ties with a libertarian think tank that provides arguments critical of global warming and the effects of tobacco smoking. Pfizer Inc., a
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Was Scott Walker Chosen to Headline Heartland Institute Gala Due to His Bradley Foundation Ties?
800px-ScottWalker.jpeg Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker will keynote the Heartland Institute's 28th Anniversary Benefit Dinner this evening at Navy Pier in Chicago, IL. Walker recently won the Kochtopus-funded Americans for Prosperity George Washington Award. Now, two months after his recall election steamrolling of Democrat Tom Barrett, the climate change denying group
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Andrew Bolt Cuts Ties With Climate Science Denying Galileo Movement Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theory
galileo.jpg ANDREW Bolt is Australia's loudest and most popular climate science doubt-spreader who just loves to stoke the fires of environmental conspiracy theorists with his daily splurge of blog posts and his weekly radio and TV shows. The blogger and columnist in the Murdoch-owned News Ltd press describes climate change as
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Latest Pro-Keystone XL Website Backed by GOP Special Interest Group
kerpin.jpeg This morning, the latest in pro-tar sands spin went live. KeystoneXLNow.com takes aim at President Obama for failing to approve the Keystone XL project (even though the White House just announced approval of the southern leg today), calling it "an affront to millions of Americans out of work and an
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Why Is Pfizer Still Aligning Itself With Heartland Institute On "Public Health" Record?
Pfizer.png The Heartland Institute has had a rough time the last couple of months. The climate denial shop has endured the release of embarrassing leaked documents. Then it launched a devastatingly ill-conceived billboard campaign associating climate science adherents with serial killers. That didn't work out so well. So Heartland's donors started
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Richard Epstein Off The Heartland Expert List
As regular readers may know, I spent a good part of May 2012 trying to convince that subset of the Heartland Institute expert list who were also legitimate scientists to distances themselves from HI for their disastrous billboard campaign, with some modest success. Well, one of the people I emailed was Richard Epstein,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jan Veizer Didn’t Even Know He Was On Heartland List–Also, He Deplores My Actions
This morning I recieved an email from Jan Veizer, a geologist at the University of Ottawa. He too is on the Heartland Institute expert list:From: REDACTEDTo: bigcitylib@hotmail.comSubject: RE: Jan Veizer And The Heartland InstituteDate: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 14:48:04 +0000I was not aware of this and and do not appreciate
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: How To Divide And Conquer The Free Market Climate Change Denial Movement
head-in-the-sand.jpeg Much has been made lately of the Heartland’s Institute’s implosion over it extreme position on climate change. In February there was the revelation of internal strategy documents that included a plan to promote climate change scepticism in schools. In early May they unveiled a billboard equating those who believe
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland Expert List Roundup
If you’ve been following along lately, you’ll know that my project for May was to–in wake of the Heartland Institute’s disastrous billboard campaign–contact scientists on the their expert list and ask them politely whether they wished to remain on that list. A copy of the form letter I used can be
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: ‘Peer of the Realm’ Monckton now a Birther
monckton.jpg This is a guest post by Greenpeace USA's Kevin Grandia, former DeSmog Managing Editor. Christopher Monckton, well known for his wacky behavior attempting to deny the scientific realities of climate change, has now moved on to look into the conspiracy theory around whether US president Barack Obama was actually
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Lomborg Makes It Official
Bjørn Lomborg’s assistant emailed me this morning to confirm that Mr. Lomborg no longer wished to have an entry on the Heartland Institute expert list: Dear M.J.Murphy, Thank you for your email pointing out to the affiliation problem. As Lomborg is not affiliated with the Heartland Institute, we asked them to take Lomborg
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bjørn Lomborg Disses Deniers?
Although neither the folks at the Heartland Institute nor Mr. Lomborg have confirmed Mr. Lomborg’s withdrawal from the institute’s Expert List, sometime over the course of the last three or four days his entry was indeed deleted from that list . This may or may not have been due to my efforts, outlined here
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Verizon, and CUNA Drop Heartland Institute, Continuing Corporate Defections
This is a guest post by Jesse Coleman that originally appeared at PolluterWatch. Pharmaceutical giants Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline, along with Verizon, Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, and Credit Union National Association, have announced that they will not fund the climate change denying Heartland Institute in 2012. According to the Heartland Institute’s own
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Joe Bast Announces the Death of Denial-a-Palooza at Final Heartland ICCC Conference
heartland_billboard.jpg During his closing remarks at the Heartland Institute's Seventh "International Conference on Climate Change," Heartland President Joseph Bast revealed that the group has no plans to hold another conference and is struggling to pay its staff following the defections of corporate sponsors in the wake of the disastrous Unabomber
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: A Closer Look at Heartland’s ICCC7 Denial-a-Palooza Speakers and Sponsors
sponsors.png This afternoon, Joseph Bast delivered the closing remarks to the Heartland Institute's Seventh and final "International Conference on Climate Change." The final Denial-a-Palooza was co-sponsored by dozens of organizations that have received over $67 Million from ExxonMobil, Koch, and Scaife family foundations. There was tension in the air at
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