The Heartland Institute

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Contents 1 About 1.1 Sponsorships 2 Links 2.1 Official 2.2 Reference 2.3 News

[edit] About

The Heartland Institute (THI) is a non-profit right-wing think tank founded in 1984.

From 2009-12-16 Who are the climate change skeptics:

Between 1998 and 2005, [THI] received $561,500 in funding from ExxonMobil, 40% of which was designated for climate science opposition (see the Union of Concerned Scientists Exxon report (PDF)). In April 2008, it published a list of "500 Scientists With Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares" compiled by Dennis Avery, co-author of a 2007 anti-AGW book with S. Fred Singer and participant in NIPCC which attributes periodic warming to a 1500-year solar cycle. The publication of this list resulted in protests from 45 scientists on the list who stated that they are not AGW opponents and requested that their names be removed. Rather than remove the scientists from the list, The Heartland Institute changed the title of the list to "500 Scientists Whose Research Contradicts Man-Made Global Warming Scares." The Heartland Institute's list of 138 climate change experts contains many individuals with no relevant expertise or credentials.

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• Events:
  • the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, an anti-AGW propaganda-fest
• Organizations:
  • the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
• Publications:
  • The Skeptics Handbook by Joanne Nova (Australian GW skeptic) recently distributed in the US to minority churches

[edit] Links

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• web site
  • Reply to Our Critics

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• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia: no equivalent article (as of 2008-12-14)
• dKosopedia: no equivalent article (as of 2008-12-14)
• SourceWatch
• Lippard Blog

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• 2008-03-04 :more:talk: At the Heartland and Discovery Institutes, a Shared Rhetoric § “In seeking to bend science to fit with their preferred policy goals, the Heartland Institute (HI) chooses as a rhetorical bedfellow the Discovery Institute (DI), the think tank that brought us the public relations campaign against the teaching of evolution in schools.” more...
• 2008-01-30 :more:talk: What if you held a conference, and no (real) scientists came? § “At first sight this may look like a scientific conference – especially to those who are not familiar with the activities of the Heartland Institute, a front group for the fossil fuel industry that is sponsoring the conference.” more...