Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine

[salvorhardin]

Wow. It's as bad as we always thought it was, but it's nice to have smoking-gun levels of proof now.

Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart of the climate denial machine – its current plans, many of its funders, and details that confirm what DeSmogBlog and others have reported for years. The heart of the climate denial machine relies on huge corporate and foundation funding from U.S. businesses including Microsoft, Koch Industries, Altria (parent company of Philip Morris) RJR Tobacco and more.

We are releasing the entire trove of documents now to allow crowd-sourcing of the material. Here are a few quick highlights, stay tuned for much more.

* Confirmation that Charles G. Koch Foundation is again funding Heartland Institute’s global warming disinformation campaign.

* Heartland Institute’s global warming denial machine is chiefly – and perhaps entirely – funded by one Anonymous donor

Full post with links to PDFs: http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Key phrase: "dissuading teachers from teaching science"

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/heartlandgate_anti-science_ins.php

They're as anti-science as Creationists are; but they do it purely for profit, and the consequences, if they succeed, could be far worse.

[salvorhardin]

2. Exactly!

These aren't people with some misguided bronze age beliefs. These are profiteers of destruction.

[drm604]

3. K&R