Videos from the Global Warming Denier Forum in Elk River

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See the videos at Liberal in the Land of Conservative blog:

http://liberalinthelandofconservative.blogspot.com/

On April 17th, roughly 80 people assembled into the auditorium at Elk River High School to hear what was touted as a balanced presentation of the global warming "debate". Unfortunately, both the organizers and the presenter were deniers and thus controlled the flow and direction of the discussion. The following is the introduction of the presentation given by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute. We will have a deeper examination of Heartland and its "nonpartisan" nature of denying negative effects of smoking as well as their connection to the oil industry...

The De'Nile blog has more about the Heartland Institute's sponsors:

http://iamtheostrich.blogspot.com/

The Heartland Institute campaigns against the Kyoto protocol aimed at countering global warming and promoting genetically engineered crops and products; it supports the privatization of public services; it opposes tobacco control measure such as tobacco tax increases and denies the health effects of second-hand smoke.
The Heartland Institute has received $791,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

The Heartland Institute created a website in the Spring of 2007, www.globalwarmingheartland.org, which asserts there is no scientific consensus on global warming and features a list of experts, and a list of like-minded think tanks, many of whom have received funding from ExxonMobil and other polluters.

Walter F. Buchholtz, an ExxonMobil executive, serves as Heartland's Government Relations Advisor...

This is the flier on Rep. Mark Olson's website:

http://www.repmarkolson.com/

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Is this the same group with those billboards in the Twin Cities and 94 by St Cloud?

They are as nutty as you can get.

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2. I haven't seen the billboards...Do they look like this?

From this website:

http://www.globalclimatescam.com/?page_id=19

[CatholicEdHead]

3. There is one just east of St Cloud on 94 eastbound, I think Albertville area

And another one on 94 somewhere between downtown Minneapolis and downtown St Paul.

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4. "Globalclimatescam" is Mary Kiffmeyer's "Minnesota Majority"

Y'know these guys:

http://tinyurl.com/6942vc

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Actually, overpopulatino and food shortages ARE problems

Just not in central Minnesota.

[loveable liberal]

6. Icky... Mark Olson was invited....

Watch out ladies...

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7. Rep. Mark Olson's Pals

http://www.m4gw.com:2005/m4gw/

http://www.youtube.com/user/M4GW

[geardaddy]

8. Have you seen the reviews for that tripe

Ben Stein is peddling in theaters?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ben-steins-expelled-review-john-rennie

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9. Antidote to Ben Stein..... Read PZ Myers

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/