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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">6/15 iccc</font></p><div class="print-content"><article class="node-9518 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-print clearfix"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The <a href="https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/liberal-assault-freedom-speech">principled crusaders for free speech</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine">Heartland Institute</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span> today took the pragmatic step of banning credentialed journalists from its event fearing negative publicity.</b></font></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.heartland.org/jim-lakely">Jim Lakely, the communications director for the oil </a><span class="print-footnote">[5]</span>and tobacco funded think tank, withdrew media credentials made and handed to Brendan Montague, editor of <em>DeSmog <span class="caps">UK</span></em>, and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> asked hotel security to remove the reporter from the </span><a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span class="caps">ICCC</span>-10 </span>even</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span>t at the <a href="http://washingtoncourthotel.com/">Washington Court Hotel</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span> in Washington <span class="caps">DC</span>.</font></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.heartland.org/gene-koprowski">Gene Koprowski, director of marketing</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span>, said he “refused to be drawn into a philosophical debate” when asked whether a think tank claiming to champion personal liberty and press freedom should begin blacklisting members of the media. </font></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gene protested that he had been a journalist for 25 years but was <b>simply following orders</b> when implementing the ban.</font></span></p><p class="p2"><strong><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Inhofe's Snowball</font></span></strong></p><p class="p2"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4">Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment, was the morning's keynote speaker as a handfull of guests assembled in the hotel basement. Members of the press however were penned into a separate room to watch the speech on a livestream.</font></p><p class="p2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Inhofe, who enjoys considerable political sponsorship from fossil fuel polluters, became something of a national laughing stock when he produced a snowball as evidence that climate change was not happening this winter. <span style="line-height: 0.75em;">”<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/obama-on-inhofe-snowball-stunt-that-s-disturbing-20150316">People take things too seriously around here</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>,” he said shortly after. </span></font></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton">Lord Monckton</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span>, who has garnered international media after slipping past security and attempting to accost Ban Ki Moon after the meeting with the Pope in the Vatican</span>, said he would not be able to negotiate entry for the reporter.</font></span></p><p class="p2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2096448-iccc10-media-credentials.html"><span class="caps">READ</span> <span class="caps">OUR</span> <span class="caps">LETTER</span> <span class="caps">TO</span> <span class="caps">JIM</span> <span class="caps">LAKELY</span>, <span class="caps">HEARTLAND</span>'S <span class="caps">COMMUNICATIONS</span> <span class="caps">DIRECTOR</span></a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span></font></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Montague presented the Heartland team with his press pass issued by the National Union of Journalists in the United Kingdom which shows he is recognised by police as a “bona fide newsgatherer”.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> He was told that he would not be admitted because of <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2015/04/27/pope-francis-should-answer-exxonmobil-rather-god-imply-climate-deniers">negative reporting of the Heartland</a> <span class="print-footnote">[12]</span> press conference in Rome.</span></font></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He said: “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/joseph-bast">Uncle Joe Bast and his Heartland Institute</a> <span class="print-footnote">[13]</span> claim that personal liberty and the free market are absolute principles, but here we see them resorting to bully tactics, hiding behind hotel security and press censorship as a result of the mildest of criticism. </font></span></p><p class="p2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I thought this was <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin">the <span class="caps">ICCC</span> event, not the <span class="caps">CCCP</span></a> <span class="print-footnote">[14]</span>. <span style="line-height: 11px;">Whatever happened to the market in ideas? </span><span style="line-height: 0.75em;">Thankfully the hotel security have been very gratious.” </span></font></p><p class="p2"><strong><span style="line-height: 0.75em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Heartland Sponsors</font></span></strong></p><p class="p2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The event sponsors include <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> <span class="print-footnote">[15]</span>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> <span class="print-footnote">[16]</span>, the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/science-and-environmental-policy-project">Science and Environmental Policy Project</a> <span class="print-footnote">[17]</span> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2804">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a> <span class="print-footnote">[18]</span> - all beneficiaries of ExxonMobil largess. Joe Bast, president and <span class="caps">CEO</span> of the Heartland Institute did not attend the event due to illness.</font></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The editor of <em>DeSmog <span class="caps">UK</span></em> has written a series of articles criticising Heartland for its attack on climate science pointing to the fact the think tank has in its history been funded by Charles Koch, the billionaire oil refinery baron, oil behemoth ExxonMobil and also tobacco interests.</font></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He attended the <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/las-vegas-climate-change-denial-brendan-montague-101">Heartland conference in Vegas</a> <span class="print-footnote">[19]</span> last year resulting in a hugely popular Hunter S Thompson inspired report about the free market libertarians gambling with the future of the planet. He also earlier attended the conference in the think tank’s home town of Chicago.</font></span></p><p class="p2"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">*Our lighthearted headline is a reference to <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/28/vatican-heavies-silence-climate-heretics-at-un-papal-summit/">this…</a> <span class="print-footnote">[20]</span></font></span></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tags: </font></div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/3652">exxon funding heartland</a> <span class="print-footnote">[21]</span></font></div><div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/4661">climate change inhofe</a> <span class="print-footnote">[22]</span></font></div><div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/5921">Jim Lakely</a> <span class="print-footnote">[23]</span></font></div><div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/8424">Joe Bast</a> <span class="print-footnote">[24]</span></font></div><div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/657">ExxonMobil</a> <span class="print-footnote">[25]</span></font></div></div></div><div id="whatsnext"><div id="customlinks" class="clearfix" style="line-height: 1em;"><div id="fblike"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><fb:like href="http://www.desmog.uk/2015/06/11/heartland-heavies-silence-climate-reporters-oil-supported-summit" layout="button" action="recommend" width="55" xmlns:fb="fb" /></font></div><div id="tweetbutton"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></div></div></article></div><div class="print-footer" style="text-align: center;"><hr class="print-hr" style="text-align: left; border: 0px; height: 1px; width: 1551px; background-color: rgb(158, 158, 158);" /><div class="print-source_url" style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Source URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2015/06/11/heartland-heavies-silence-climate-reporters-oil-supported-summit">http://www.desmog.uk/2015/06/11/heartland-heavies-silence-climate-reporters-oil-supported-summit</a></font></div><div class="print-links"><p /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">Links:</strong></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[1] http://www.desmog.uk/2015/06/11/heartland-heavies-silence-climate-reporters-oil-supported-summit</font></div><div style="text-align: left;">[2] http://www.desmog.uk/user/25741</div><div style="text-align: left;">[3] https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/liberal-assault-freedom-speech</div><div style="text-align: left;">[4] http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine</div><div style="text-align: left;">[5] https://www.heartland.org/jim-lakely</div><div style="text-align: left;">[6] http://climateconference.heartland.org</div><div style="text-align: left;">[7] http://washingtoncourthotel.com</div><div style="text-align: left;">[8] https://www.heartland.org/gene-koprowski</div><div style="text-align: left;">[9] http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/obama-on-inhofe-snowball-stunt-that-s-disturbing-20150316</div><div style="text-align: left;">[10] http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton</div><div style="text-align: left;">[11] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2096448-iccc10-media-credentials.html</div><div style="text-align: left;">[12] http://www.desmog.uk/2015/04/27/pope-francis-should-answer-exxonmobil-rather-god-imply-climate-deniers</div><div style="text-align: left;">[13] http://www.desmogblog.com/joseph-bast</div><div style="text-align: left;">[14] http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin</div><div style="text-align: left;">[15] http://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation</div><div style="text-align: left;">[16] http://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute</div><div style="text-align: left;">[17] http://www.desmogblog.com/science-and-environmental-policy-project</div><div style="text-align: left;">[18] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2804</div><div style="text-align: left;">[19] http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/las-vegas-climate-change-denial-brendan-montague-101</div><div style="text-align: left;">[20] http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/28/vatican-heavies-silence-climate-heretics-at-un-papal-summit/</div><div style="text-align: left;">[21] http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/3652</div><div style="text-align: left;">[22] http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/4661</div><div style="text-align: left;">[23] http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/5921</div><div style="text-align: left;">[24] http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/8424</div><div style="text-align: left;">[25] http://www.desmog.uk/directory/vocabulary/657</div><div style="text-align: left;">[26] http://twitter.com/share</div><div style="text-align: left;">[27] http://www.desmog.uk/printmail/9518</div><div style="text-align: left;">[28] http://www.desmog.uk/print/9518</div><div style="text-align: left;">[29] http://www.desmog.uk/subscribe-newsletter</div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><h2 style="text-align: left; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 255); line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peter Ferrara</font></b></h2><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Day Job:</b> Senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at the <b>Social Security Institute</b>; general counsel of the <b>American Civil Rights Union at the Heartland Institute</b>.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Industry Ties:</b> Heartland.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News guest:</b> Regular on <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/archive/peter-ferrara/index.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">web</a> and <a href="http://theacru.org/acru/peter_ferrara_on_fox_news/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">broadcast</a>.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Climate Expertise:</b> "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/peter-ferrara" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">While I am not a scientist</a>, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He said it:</b> See above.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given the climate denial of some of its main donors, the Heartland Institute has a lengthy history of scientific rejection. Back in 2003, CEO Joseph Bast released a list of “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080704214025/http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/iecws/news/global_warming_is_a_scam.pdf" onclick="gaq.push(['trackEvent','download/http://web.archive.org/web/20080704214025/http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/iecws/news/global_warming_is_a_scam.pdf']);" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">eight reasons why global warming is a scam</a>.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/" onclick="gaq.push(['trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http://www.greenpeace.org/', 'Greenpeace']);" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Greenpeace</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 2013 uncovered more of the Institute’s denial exploits in its study,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/Dealing%20in%20Doubt%202013%20-%20Greenpeace%20report%20on%20Climate%20Change%20Denial%20Machine.pdf" onclick="gaq.push(['trackEvent','download/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/Dealing%20in%20Doubt%202013%20-%20Greenpeace%20report%20on%20Climate%20Change%20Denial%20Machine.pdf']);" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Dealing in Doubt: The Climate Denial Machine Vs Climate Science</a>. </em>The report showed how the denial extended well beyond the environment. In the ’90s, the Heartland Institute worked with Philip Morris in questioning the link between second-hand smoke and human health risks. The entities went on to lobby against government public health reforms around tobacco....</font>

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<h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Has beens, also-rans, deniers-for-hire on retainer at “think tank”</font></h3>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Update: <a href="http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2012/february/story63491.html">13th scientist disavows Heartland connection</a> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span></strong> (See: Watkins at bottom of this post)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Heartland Institute maintains a stable of 13 scientists on retainer for the express purpose of attacking the work of the Nobel Prize winning <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a> <span class="print-footnote">[2]</span> (<span class="caps">IPCC</span>), according to <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/%281-15-2012%29%202012%20Heartland%20Budget%20%282%29.pdf">budget</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span>information released last week in the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-insider-exposes-institute-s-budget-and-strategy">Heartland document dump</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The scientists, ranging from one of the world's least credible deniers-for-hire (<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/no-apology-is-owed-dr-s-fred-singer-and-none-will-be-forthcoming">Dr. S. Fred Singer</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span>) to a<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> sessional lecturer on the evolution and history of the domestic dog (<a href="http://anthropology.uvic.ca/people/faculty/adjunct_and_sessional.php">Susan Crockford</a></span> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span>), include no top climate scientists currently publishing in the peer-reviewed literature.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The best paid “expert” on the Heartland list is <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/craig-idso">Craig Idso,</a></span> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span> a former Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy (the largest coal company in the world). Heartland pays Idso $11,600 a month through his <a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/dirty-dozen-climate-change-denial-11-idso-family%20%20">Center for the Study of <span class="caps">CO</span>2 <span class="amp">&</span> Global Change</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span>, which like the Heartland Institute, has charitable status and therefore operates with an effective subsidy from the American taxpayer. (Funny how quick libertarians are to fleece old Uncle Sam when <span class="caps">THEY</span> get to kick the money back to their rich friends.)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Coming in at <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">$5,000 a month is Idso's principal partner in the regular <span class="caps">IPCC</span> attack, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/s-fred-singer">Fred Singer</a></span> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>, who for the last 20 years has denied pretty much any health threat with a corporate sponsor: the health impacts of second-hand smoke; coal's role in creating acid rain; the danger of asbestos; or <span class="caps">DDT</span>; the role of <span class="caps">CFC</span>s in creating the ozone hole; and, of course, the human cause and potential consequences of climate change. (See Naomi Oreskes excellent book, <a href="http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/">Merchants of Doubt</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span> for the full, devastating story ot Singer's lucrative denial business.)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Together, Idso and Singer developed what they call the <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/denialgate-highlights-heartlands-selective-nipcc-science.html">Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span> (<span class="caps">NIPCC</span>), which Heartland funds as “the most comprehensive and authoritative rebuttal of the United Nations’<span class="caps">IPCC</span> reports.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Number 3 on the list of Heartland's beneficiaries, at $1,667 a month, is the Australian <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/rm-bob-carter#s3">Robert Carter</a> </span><span class="print-footnote">[12]</span>, a geologist at James Cook University in Queensland and a staff member for the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs"> Institute of Public Affairs</a> <span class="print-footnote">[13]</span>, an Australian think tank which, like the Heartland Institute,<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1134"> takes funding from the tobacco and oil industries</a> <span class="print-footnote">[14]</span>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The fourth, fifth and sixth experts on Heartland's anonymous donor dole, all at $1,000 a month, are <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/madhav-khandekar">Madhav Khandekar</a> <span class="print-footnote">[15]</span>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/congressman-calls-hearing-heartland-institute-payments-federal-employee-indur-goklany">Indur Goklany</a> <span class="print-footnote">[16]</span> and <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=5">Robert Balling</a></span> <span class="print-footnote">[17]</span>. Khandekar is another think-tank double-dipper, a retired Environment Canada researcher who <a href="http://www.fraserinstitute.org/author.aspx?id=14931&txID=2833">also shows up</a> <span class="print-footnote">[18]</span> on the experts list at the Canadian think tank, the Fraser Institute, which subsidized an earlier <span class="caps">IPCC</span> attack called the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Independent_Summary_for_Policymakers">Independent Summary for Policymakers</a> <span class="print-footnote">[19]</span>. Khandekar has also been an “expert” on other discredited climate change denial organizations, including<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science"> Friends of Science and the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.</a> <span class="print-footnote">[20]</span></font>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Goklany, a Senior Advisor at the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Interior Department, is <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/congressman-calls-hearing-heartland-institute-payments-federal-employee-indur-goklany">currently under scrutiny</a> <span class="print-footnote">[16]</span> over whether the funding he has accepted from Heartland violates <span class="caps">U.S.</span> law against federal employees taking payments that could put them in conflict with their governmental duties.</font></span>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Balling">Robert Balling</a> <span class="print-footnote">[21]</span> is a geography professor at Arizona State who turns up as an expert on several industry funded<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=5"> (taxpayer subsidized) policy hothouses</a> <span class="print-footnote">[17]</span> masquerading as “think tanks” and educational organizations. Balling was a trendsetter among climate-change deniers for hire, working as early as the late 1990s for the coal barons of the Western Fuels Association on its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening_Earth_Society">Greening Earth Society</a> <span class="print-footnote">[22]</span> project.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Coming in with a lower profile and a lower monthly retainer ($750 a month) are <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-lupo">Anthony Lupo</a> <span class="print-footnote">[23]</span>, and Canadian “Terrestrial Animal” specialists Crockford (the dog expert from the University of Victoria) and   Mitch Taylor, a<a href="http://geography.lakeheadu.ca/taylor/taylor.html">contract lecturer </a><span class="print-footnote">[24]</span>at the Lakehead University who has argued that polar bears are in no danger from climate change.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The weather forecaster <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D%27Aleo">Joe D’Aleo</a> <span class="print-footnote">[25]</span> gets just $500 a month, (kid-stuff compared to the <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/15/some-notes-on-the-heartland-leak/">$88,000 that Heartland is kicking over</a> <span class="print-footnote">[26]</span> to D'Aleo's meteorological colleague Anthony Watts). D'Aleo,  co-founder of The Weather Channel, predicted in the 2008 Farmers Almanac that the world was entering a cooling phase. (No word whether he updated that prediction after <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/temp-analysis-2009.html">2009 was the second hottest year on record</a> <span class="print-footnote">[27]</span> and <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-014_Warmest_Year.html">2010 tied for the hottest</a> <span class="print-footnote">[28]</span>.)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It must be disappointing to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon">Willie Soon</a> <span class="print-footnote">[29]</span>, at just $125 a month.</span> Soon is an astrophysicist at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard-Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics" title="Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics">Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics</a> <span class="print-footnote">[30]</span>. But his credibility has sustained a series of terrible blows. It was reported last year, for example, that he took took more than $1 million in funding from oil and coal companies, including the Koch Foundation, Southern and Exxon. He'd earlier been reportedly taking money from the American Petroleum Institute and he and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas">Sallie Baliunas</a> <span class="print-footnote">[31]</span> had a paper discredited in the journal Climate Research (it was so bad, <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Storm-Brews-Over-Global/27779">the editor resigned in protest</a> <span class="print-footnote">[32]</span>).</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Also budgeted at $125 a month are <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Loehle">Craig Loehle</a> <span class="print-footnote">[33]</span>, a pulp and paper industry scientist, and <strike><a href="http://www.hu.mtu.edu/hu_dept/faculty_staff/single_fac_pages/watkins.php">David Watkins,</a> <span class="print-footnote">[34]</span> who appears to be a water resources specialist in the civil and environmental engineering department at Michigan Tech. </strike>There being no obvious public record of Watkins having said anything embarrassingly silly about climate science, it's not immediately clear what his name is doing on the Heartland list.</font>

<strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Update:<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> David Watkins, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at Michigan Tech </span>contacted the DeSmogBlog today to say:</font></strong></p>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>I have had no contact with the Heartland Institute, have not received [nor have been offered] any funding from them, and have no idea how I ended up in their 2012 budget.  M(y) university administration is trying to contact Heartland to find out how this misuse of my name occurred.</strong>

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<p><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Apologies to Dr. Watkins for any embarrassment we might have caused him by repeating the erroneous, and potentially damaging, contention that he was accepting money from Heartland. Read the <a href="http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2012/february/story63491.html">official response from Michigan Tech University</a> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span>.</font></strong></p>

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<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/willie-soon">Willie Soon</a> <span class="print-footnote">[35]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/637">fred singer</a> <span class="print-footnote">[36]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/821">Heartland Institute</a> <span class="print-footnote">[37]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/1534">Robert Carter</a> <span class="print-footnote">[38]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2564">Madhav Khandekar</a> <span class="print-footnote">[39]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4149">Craig Idso</a> <span class="print-footnote">[40]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4186">Susan Crockford</a> <span class="print-footnote">[41]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7302">Anthony Lupo</a> <span class="print-footnote">[42]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7818">robert balling</a> <span class="print-footnote">[43]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8423">denialgate</a> <span class="print-footnote">[44]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8443">DenierGate</a> <span class="print-footnote">[45]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8449">Indur Goklany</a> <span class="print-footnote">[46]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8457">Mitch Taylor</a> <span class="print-footnote">[47]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item even"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8459">Craig Loehle</a> <span class="print-footnote">[49]</span></font></div>

<div class="field-item odd"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8460">David Watkins</a> <span class="print-footnote">[50]</span></font></div>

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<div class="blogreadmore"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Read more: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/what-passes-brain-trust-heartland">What passes for a Brain Trust at Heartland?</a> <span class="print-footnote">[51]</span></font></div>

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<div class="print-source_url" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Source URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/what-passes-brain-trust-heartland">http://www.desmogblog.com/what-passes-brain-trust-heartland</a></font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Links:</font></strong></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[1] http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2012/february/story63491.html</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[3] http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/%281-15-2012%29%202012%20Heartland%20Budget%20%282%29.pdf</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[4] http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-insider-exposes-institute-s-budget-and-strategy</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[5] http://www.desmogblog.com/no-apology-is-owed-dr-s-fred-singer-and-none-will-be-forthcoming</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[6] http://anthropology.uvic.ca/people/faculty/adjunct_and_sessional.php</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[7] http://www.desmogblog.com/craig-idso</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[8] http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/dirty-dozen-climate-change-denial-11-idso-family%20%20</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[9] http://www.desmogblog.com/s-fred-singer</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[10] http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[11] http://www.skepticalscience.com/denialgate-highlights-heartlands-selective-nipcc-science.html</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[12] http://www.desmogblog.com/rm-bob-carter#s3</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[14] http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1134</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[15] http://www.desmogblog.com/madhav-khandekar</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[16] http://www.desmogblog.com/congressman-calls-hearing-heartland-institute-payments-federal-employee-indur-goklany</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[17] http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=5</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[18] http://www.fraserinstitute.org/author.aspx?id=14931&txID=2833</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[19] http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Independent_Summary_for_Policymakers</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[20] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[21] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Balling</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[22] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening_Earth_Society</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[23] http://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-lupo</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[24] http://geography.lakeheadu.ca/taylor/taylor.html</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D%27Aleo</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[26] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/15/some-notes-on-the-heartland-leak/</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[27] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/temp-analysis-2009.html</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[28] http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-014_Warmest_Year.html</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[29] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[30] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard-Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[31] http://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[32] http://chronicle.com/article/Storm-Brews-Over-Global/27779</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[33] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Loehle</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[34] http://www.hu.mtu.edu/hu_dept/faculty_staff/single_fac_pages/watkins.php</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[35] http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/willie-soon</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[36] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/637</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[37] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/821</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[38] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/1534</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[39] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2564</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[40] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4149</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[41] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4186</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[42] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7302</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[43] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7818</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[44] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8423</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[45] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8443</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[46] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8449</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[47] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8457</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[48] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8458</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[49] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8459</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[50] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8460</font></div>

<div style=" text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[51] http://www.desmogblog.com/what-passes-brain-trust-heartland</font></div>

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin: 1em 0em; padding: 0px; line-height: 15.6px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the principal international body for the assessment of climate research, just published its <b>Fifth Assessment Report </b>concluding unequivocally that<span style=" line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"> climate change is real and requires meaningful action — but the anti-science fringe is now running to the media to spread misinformation </span>and discredit the report.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In one example on Monday, the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">president of the Koch-funded Heartland Institute published an op-ed in Forbes arguing that climate change would have “net benefits” – and there's many more like him being printed in newspapers across the country.</span></font></p>

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</font><h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PART 2: Denier Tricks and Tactics</font></h3>

<p><a class="act" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/Dealing-in-Doubt---the-Climate-Denial-Machine-vs-Climate-Science/Dealing-in-Doubt-Heartland-Institute-NIPCC-Climate-Change-Reconsidered-global-warming-denial/" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">CASE STUDY: The Heartland Institute: a Clearing House of Climate Denial Campaign Tactics</font></a></p>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Heartland’s internal workings exposed</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Heartland’s Fake Scientific Conferences and the Unabomber</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Origin of the ICCC</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The NIPCC – or “Climate Change Reconsidered” – or “Not the IPCC”</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2013 NIPCC in China – or: Let not the truth get in the way of a good story</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Heartland, ALEC and the attack on science education</font></li>

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