The Heartland Institute is a right-wing free-market think tank, whose activities include manufacturing doubt about the science of anthropogenic global warming and who produce, among other things the 'NIPCC' report, a 'NonGovernmental' response to the actual UN reports.
Someone has kindly shared their budget and strategy for 2012. This borders on satire, they are paying $100K for the development of a school curriculum that ...
Denying climate change can be good for your finances ...
And their commitment to 'freedom' apparently does not extend to freedom of speech ...
Heartland also slip some 'contrarian' scientists several thousand a month to carry on with the noisemaking. So the next time one of the regulars post up a link to the latest balony from WattsUpWithThat, remember that Watts is funded by an organisation who stifle dissent, oppose the teaching of science, and whose aim is to undermine science rather than promote it. Who knew?
Someone has kindly shared their budget and strategy for 2012. This borders on satire, they are paying $100K for the development of a school curriculum that ...
shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain - two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science. We tentatively plan to pay Dr. Wojick $100,000 for 20 modules in 2012, with funding pledged by the Anonymous Donor.
...At present we sponsor the NIPCC to undermine the official United Nation's IPCC reports and paid a team of writers $388,000 in 2011 to work on a series of editions of Climate Change Reconsidered...
...We have also pledged to help raise around $90,000 in 2012 for Anthony Watts to help him create a new website to track temperature station data. Finally, we will consider expanding these efforts further, or developing new ones, if funding can be obtained.
...Efforts at places such as Forbes are especially important now that they have begun to allow highprofile climate scientists (such as Gleick) to post warmist science essays that counter our own. This influential audience has usually been reliably anti-climate and it is important to keep opposing voices out...
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