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Category Archives: Global Warming Denial Machine
A coordinated right-wing campaign to turn the US public against renewable energy?
“A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama's energy agenda,” the UK Guardian reports. Having pushed global climatic disruption pretty much off the radar … Continue reading
Thanks to State Farm insurance for dropping the Heartland Institute
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Even denialist Rep. Sensenbrenner recoiled at loathsome Heartland Institute Unabomber global warming billboard
Heartland took down its billboard comparing those who support climate science to the Unabomber when it became clear that they had stooped too low even for Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin), a hard-nosed denialist who has engaged in a McCarthyist jihad … Continue reading
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General Motors pulls funding from Heartland Institute; Heartland responds
A GM spokesman confirmed that the company will stop funding the Heartland Institute, a well-known cog in the global warming denial machine. Heartland issued a response in which they complain about, get this: the Huffington Post, Center for American Progress, … Continue reading
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Update on the unresolved fight over who gets to read Michael Mann’s email
Legal skirmishing continues in the effort of the global warming denial machine to obtain 12,000 emails sent and received by paleoclimatologist Michael Mann when he was at the University of Virginia. Now that the Virginia Supreme Court has tossed out … Continue reading
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Climate science in the schools: Heartland Institute vs. Gavin Schmidt
“So is climate change set to join evolution as the next big classroom controversy?” asks Brad Plumer in the Washington Post. “Things do seem to be trending that way.” And Heartland is proposing to use an author who willfully misreads climate … Continue reading
Republicans for Environmental Protection vs. Heartland Institute climate disinformation campaign
“Heartland, a PR and lobbying organization,…[its] strategy, and its reliance on funding from individuals who have a vested interest in undermining climate science, must be brought to the public's attention,” says the independent group Republicans for Environmental Protection. “They even … Continue reading
Leaked Heartland Institute documents include plan for climate disinformation curriculum in schools
Leaked internal documents obtained from the Heartland Institute include a fundraising plan with the outline of a project to develop teaching modules for use in K-12 education that would characterize climate science issues as major controversies (e.g., “whether humans are … Continue reading
“Like dentists practicing cardiology” – Climate scientists respond to Wall Street Journal disinformer op-ed. When you’re talking about planetary life suppport, it really matters what your credentials are.
In a letter to the WSJ, 38 climate science experts call down Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper for publishing an op-ed ("No Need to Panic About Global Warming") "by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields," … Continue reading
Stephen Schneider: Science and Distortion
This short film by San Francisco filmmaker Stephen Thomson pays tribute to our dear friend, the eminent climate scientist Stephen Schneider (1945-2010). Thank you to Peter Sinclair at the excellent Climate Denial Crock of the Week for calling this to our … Continue reading
