A prominent associate of the US based Heartland Institute managed to teach a climate change course at Carleton University from 2009 to 2011. An audit found the course, taught by Tom Harris, contained 140 “false, biased and misleading claims about climate science.” A team of scientists, who reviewed the videotapes
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DeSmogBlog: Fake Heartland "Scientist" Infiltrates Canadian University
CASS logo.jpg Bogus climate course “a source of embarrassment to the institution” An energy industry public relations man and lobbyist with no background in climate science has infiltrated Carleton University in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, teaching a course on climate change denial that other Carleton professors describe as “a source
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Heartland Funding Disinformation Echo Chamber
echochamber123.jpg The Heartland Institute has been using its corporate funding to create an echo chamber of experts-for-hire, subsidiary think tanks and websites which all work together to rebroadcast information in Heartland's manufactured controversy about climate change. In the last week, Heartland has been able to rely on this network – and
Continue reading350 or bust: Anti-science Lobby Group Funded By Polluters Writes “Global Warming Curriculum” For Schools
The Heartland Institute’s President and CEO just admitted that Heartland is writing a “global warming curriculum” that would say climate science isn’t settled. Heartland would like to create the appearance of a scientific debate where there is none by having our teachers claim we just don’t know if humans are
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Republic Report Slams Media Obsession With Shiny Penny In Heartland DenialGate Coverage
Republic Report.png Lee Fang at the Republic Report has a great post noting the media's obsession with the shiny penny of the who/how story surrounding the leaked documents chronicling the Heartland Institute's planned attacks on science and democracy. While groups like Greenpeace, The Climate Reality Project and Forecast the Facts
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: At Heartland’s law firm: "Carbon Matters"
LevenfeldPearlstein_07062006.gif Levenfeld Pearlstein, the law firm that has stepped up to pass on complaints about the publication of leaked Heartland Institute documents, appears to be one of the greenest in Chicago. For example, James Brusslan, head of the Environmental Services Group at Levenfeld Pearlstein, says companies should act now to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Evaluation shows "Faked" Heartland Climate Strategy Memo is Authentic
heartland logo.jpg A line-by-line evaluation of the Climate Strategy memo, which the Heartland Institute has repeatedly denounced as a "fake" shows no “obvious and gross misstatements of fact,” as Heartland has alleged. On the contrary, the Climate Strategy document is corroborated by Heartland’s own material and/or by its allies and employees.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Congressman Calls For Hearing Into Heartland Institute Payments to Federal Employee Indur Goklany
indur_goklany.jpg Representative Raúl M. Grijalva today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to probe whether Indur Goklany, a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Interior Department, improperly received payments from the Heartland Institute while collecting a paycheck from U.S. taxpayers. Rep. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House
Continue reading350 or bust: I’m A Climate Scientist
After the last week’s revelations and counter-revelations regarding the Heartland Institute’s campaign against climate science and climate scientists, here’s an appropriate reminder (language warning!) * Don’t forget to go to the “I Heart Climate Scientists” Facebook page and show these folks some love, for all the work they are doing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland Documents Proven Authentic
…by the man who obtained them: At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute’s climate program strategy. It contained information about their funders and the Institute’s apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Whistleblower Authenticates Heartland Documents
Gleick.jpg Climate scientist Peter Gleick has acknowledged that he was the person who convinced the Heartland Institute to hand over the contents of its January Board package, authenticating the documents beyond a doubt and further exposing the disinformation campaign Heartland has pursued in the last week, trying to discredit the information. In
Continue reading350 or bust: More Light Shed On Origin And Veracity Of Heartland Documents
Dr. Peter Gleick is the co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California. His bio states that he is a hydroclimatologist by training, with a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley from the Energy and Resources Group. His research
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fakeducation For Years From Heartland
indoctrinated.PNG The NY Times, LA Times and many others criticized Heartland’s inept plan to hire David Wojick to create an alternate-reality K-12 climate science curriculum. But Heartland's school ground attack on science is nothing new, as is evident in the organization's own commentary: “Heartland has tried to make material available
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Scientists To Heartland Institute: Refrain From Misleading Attacks, Engage In Civil Debate
Seven leading climatologists victimized by the Climategate email theft in 2009 have published this letter in the Guardian in response to DeSmogBlog’s revelation last week of confidential Heartland Institute documents: As scientists who have had their emails stolen, posted online and grossly misrepresented, we can appreciate the difficulties the Heartland
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland Institute Starts Threatening Bloggers (Including Canadians)
The Heartland Institute has began sending out what kind of look like legal threats to bloggers who have published/ written about their leaked documents, including Canada’s own DeSmogBlog. I haven’t received one yet, but you can see a copy here. Now, the funny thing about this letter, and one of
Continue reading350 or bust: Heartland Institute Threatens Legal Action Against Mom Working For A Better World
The Heartland Institute is attempting damage control after the DeSmogBlog revealed confidential documents about the institute’s funding and strategies to undermine the IPCC and insinuate its anti-science agenda into our children’s education. Although the Heartland Institute applauded the illegal release of thousands of personal emails stolen from Climate Research Unit
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Heartland Demands DeSmogBlog Remove ”Climate Strategy" Document
heartland.gif DeSmogBlog will leave them in place – in the public interest Heartland Institute general counsel Maureen Martin has sent letters to the DeSmogBlog and several other publications demanding that we remove all Heartland-related documents that we posted on February 14, as well as all related commentary. After due consideration, we could
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Climate Change Deniers Get Caught With Their Carbons Down
Heartland Institute is an oil industry front group, devoted to dispelling the science of climate change. The bulk of their funding comes from Exxon and the Koch brothers. The same Koch brothers that Stephen Harper is using our tax dollars to build a pipeline for, so that they no longer have to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Climategate victims chide Heartland double standard
A group of top-tier climate scientists who were victimized in the email theft known as Climategate has written to the Heartland Institute, sympathizing that the Institute is reading its own confidential documents in the public press, but chiding the "think tank" for how irresponsibly it dealt with the stolen emails. In
Continue reading350 or bust: Heartland Institute Funded By Fossil Fuel Interests To Work Against Public Interest
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s one that gives some background about so-called “think tanks” and their anti-science, climate change denial agenda. These guys cut their teeth on denying/suppressing/ridiculing the science demonstrating that cigarette smoking caused cancer (see Fake Science, Fakexperts, Funny Finances, Free of Tax) and
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