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CFACT experts, Climate Hustle 2 film make big impact atHeartland Climate Conferencein Vegas

By: Admin - Climate Depot October 21, 2021

https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/18/cfact-experts-climate-hustle-2-film-make-big-impact-at-heartland-climate-conference/

By Adam Houser |Experts, sound science, and CFACT's Climate Hustle 2 on display at Heartland Climate Conference

Above: CFACT president Craig Rucker addresses conference attendees regarding CFACT’s film, Climate Hustle 2.

Prominent skeptical climate scientists, experts, authors, and activists gathered from around the world to attend the Heartland Institute’s 14th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) in Las Vegas, Nevada. CFACT cosponsored the event, and was proud to have several CFACT experts participate in panels and discussions. CFACT also showed its groundbreaking Climate Hustle 2 film to conference attendees.

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CFACT volunteer Priscilla asks Dr. Patrick Moore about his new book and environmental issues.

The ICCC is the largest annual gathering of those skeptical of a so-called “climate crisis.” Indeed, despite continued challenges to travel from covid restrictions, many flocked to the conference from across the United States, including quite a few international attendees and experts from Germany, Canada, and Chile.

CFACT President Craig Rucker moderated two panels at the conference. One was titled “How to Oppose Woke Capital, Activist Investors, and Financial Regulators’ Efforts to Cancel Traditional Energy.” Rucker gave insight into how he participated in the now infamous shareholder meeting of Exxon Mobil where activist investors successfully ousted three board members to replace them with climate activists. Rucker and the other panel experts explained how this should be a warning bell to people every where that the radical Left is using economic institutions to achieve their dangerous agenda.

“The Left is clever. It used to be that big business and the Left were sworn enemies,” Rucker said. “Now, the Left can’t get enough of big business. Huge corporations are bending over backwards to go as woke as possible, and they’re using regular freedom-loving Americans’ investment money to do it, most of the time against their will or without their knowledge.”

CFACT’s Marc Morano gave a rousing speech addressing “Degraded Science and the ComingGreat Reset.” Morano pulled headlines and quotes from mainstream media outlets that advocate for climate lockdowns that mimic covid lockdowns in the name of “saving the planet.” Under a climate lockdown, Morano explained, there would be little to no air travel, no new clothing, no private property, no meat eating, and of course, no use of traditional, reliable fossil fuel energy.

“If you’ve loved the last year and a half living under covid lockdowns, you’ll LOVE the coming climate lockdowns,” Morano sarcastically quipped.

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Left: Marc Morano receives CFACT’s “Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award.” Center: Heartland president James Taylor hosts an energy discussion with German climate experts Wolfgang Muller and Holger Thuss. Right: CFACT president Craig Rucker is interviewed by a representative from the University of Colorado.

On day two of the conference, CFACT presented its coveted Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award. The award is given to the climate change expert, spokesperson, or scientist that has done the most to boldly advocate for the facts behind climate change, sometimes despite incredible attacks and opposition from the Left. Previous winners included Lord Cristopher Monckton, Col. Walter Cunningham, Dr. Fred Singer, and Dr. Jay Lehr.

This year, CFACT gave the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award to Marc Morano, for his bold commitment to spreading the truth on the climate issue. The catch was that Marc didn’t know this – even though he was the one opening the card announcing the winner! CFACT surprised Marc with a tribute video outlining his achievements throughout the years that can be watched here.

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Well over 100 attendees watch CFACT’s Climate Hustle 2 at the culmination of the conference.

At the culmination of the conference, CFACT’s groundbreaking film, Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy, was shown to conference attendees. Well over 100 people packed the showing room to watch the movie; some for the second or third time, but many for the first time.

The film outlines the corruption behind the climate change issue, as well as the money and power involved. Leftist elites, activists, scientists, foundations, and politicians are making trillions off of the issue, all while they never apply the same restrictive rules to themselves that they want the common people to follow.

The film was received well, evoked many laughs as itridiculed the Left’s hypocrisyon the issue, and was given a loud ovation at its conclusion.

“Well that was a treat!” Said one attendee at the conclusion. Another said “It almost makes you angry – thinking about all of this and what we’re up against.”

“The film was very educational as well as comedic in a great way,” said Priscilla Houser, a conference attendee and CFACT volunteer. “My favorite part was when Vaclav Klaus, the former president of the Czech Republic, gave his warnings about how we are repeating the descent into communism through environmentalism. It was very alarming.”

Additionally, at CFACT’s table at the conference, attendees thronged to get their own copy of the film. It was so popular, CFACT volunteers sold out of DVD copies!

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Left: Attendees flock to CFACT’s table to get their copy of Climate Hustle 2. Center: CFACT’s Marc Morano and Craig Rucker with astrophysicistDr. Willie Soon address the crowd after the movie showing. Right: Marc Morano participates in a contentious interview with journalists from the United Kingdom.

In addition to CFACT’s efforts at the conference, dozens of experts gave impressive presentations. Climatologist Dr. David Legates discussed his tenure working in government as well as his climate research. Heartland president James Taylor gave motivating speeches about the climate fight, encouraging attendees to keep fighting in the face of record censorship and opposition.

Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon gave a great presentation explaining the complicated concept of sunspot activity in a way that even someone unfamiliar with climate issues could understand. Anne Jordan, a nurse in Canada and Vice President of the Canada Health Alliance, explained how modern medicine cannot exist without single use plastics, fossil fuels, and the many other products that come from hydrocarbons.

Meteorologist Anthony Watts and Lord Christopher Monckton also gave speeches, each explaining how to debunk the climate alarmist claims.

Finally, Dr. Holger Thuss and Wolfgang Muller, leaders ofEIKE, a German-based climate skeptic group, gave chilling discussions on the state of energy in their home nation of Germany. Thuss and Muller examined the failed government push to force renewables on the country, and how many Germans now have to deal with forced blackouts in the cold winter because the grid has become so unstable.

CFACT’s delegation to the conference was interviewed by several media outlets and writers. CFACT’s Rucker was interviewed by theEpoch Timesas well as French TV, while Marc Morano gave a contentious interview with a journalist from the United Kingdom.

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Left: nurse and healthcare expert Anne Jordan discusses the importance of single use plastics to healthcare. Center: Meteorologist Anthony Watts speaks to the conference crowd. Right: Lord Christopher Monckton gives the keynote address virtually from the United Kingdom.

The UN is going “full steam ahead,” so to speak, with their radical climate agenda, and President Biden continues to push Green New Deal style policies through both legislation and regulation. Yet despite these challenges, there still exists large opposition from excellent experts in the science community against these climate alarmist actions in government.

CFACT, for its part, will continue to fight the good fight by publishing expert articles and reports from these scientists and authors, as well as appearing on many television, radio, and internet programs to dispel climate myths.CFACT will also be attending the UN’s COP26 in Glasgow,Scotland to expose the radical agenda being enacted there and to also act as a fly in theUN’s climate alarmistointment.

Stay tuned for more updates on these efforts.

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https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/california-invests-public-employee-retirement-funds-in-sustainable-energy-to-pitiful-results-guest-tim-doyle

Isaac Orr is a research fellow for energy and environment policy at The Heartland Institute. Orr is a speaker, researcher, and writer specializing in hydraulic fracturing, frac sand mining, agricultural, and environmental policy issues.

Isaac Orr is a research fellow for energy and environment policy at The Heartland Institute. Orr is a speaker, researcher, and writer specializing in hydraulic fracturing, frac sand mining, agricultural, and environmental policy issues. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire with studies in political science and geology, winning awards for his undergraduate geology research before taking a position as an aide in the Wisconsin State Senate, where he served as lead-office writer and as a policy advisor on frac sand mining and agricultural issues.

Since joining Heartland, Orr has written a Heartland Policy Studyon fracking titled “Hydraulic Fracturing: A Game-Changer for U.S. Energy and Economies” and has coauthored multiple policy studies on frac sand mining, including “Environmental Impacts of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) Mining” and “Economic Impacts of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) Mining,” in addition to his article “Frac Sand Study Lots of Scare, Little Science,” published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in October of 2014.

His writing has appeared in USA Today, the New York Post, The Hill,Orange County Register, and Washington Times.His work on fracking is also featured in an upcoming book entitled Alternative Energy and Shale Gas Encyclopedia, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He has recorded more than a dozen podcasts on energy and environment topics for Heartland.

Orr writes, “I grew up on a dairy farm, and I want to preserve rural America, and rural American values. Along with agriculture, I am fascinated by geology, mining, groundwater, and other environmental issues.”

Research & Commentary: Premature Closure of Navajo Generating Station Would Risk Regional Power Supply, Devastate Native Communities

By Tim Benson, Isaac Orr

Plant Closure Will Increase Electricity Costs, Do Incalculable Damage Would Be Done To Navajo And Hopi Tribes

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Energy

Coal power plant at dusk

JANUARY 17, 2018

Heartland Institute Submits Public Comments on Repeal of Clean Power Plan

By Peter Ferrara, Isaac Orr

On January 17, 2018, The Heartland Institute submitted public comments on EPA's proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan.

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Environment

Energy

Climate Change

JANUARY 11, 2018

Closing Coal Plant in Pleasant Prairie Will Increase Electricity Prices

By Isaac Orr

The premature closure of the Pleasant Prairie coal-fired power plant will drive up electricity costs for families.

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Energy

JANUARY 10, 2018

How the Keystone Pipeline Spill Proves Pipelines Are Safe

By Isaac Orr

A section of the Keystone Pipeline that was completed in 2011 sprung a leak, spilling approximately 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota. What does it mean for safety?

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Energy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Blame Government, Not the Market, For Dwindling Coal Industry

By Isaac Orr

Renewable energy advocates free and competitive markets are to blame for coal-fired power plants being replaced by natural gas and wind generation

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Energy

polar ice caps

JANUARY 5, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Department of the Interior Opening up Offshore Drilling

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Jay Lehr, H. Sterling Burnett, Frederick D. Palmer, Isaac Orr, Bette Grande, Walter Cunningham, James H. Rust, Arthur Viterito

“The Trump administration recognizes fossil fuels are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy, provide high paying jobs, and benefits the nation as a whole” - H. Sterling Burnett

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Energy

AUGUST 2, 2017

Testimony Before the Environmental Protection Agency

By Isaac Orr

Testimony Before the Environmental Protection Agency

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Environment

Industrial sand mining facility

APRIL 2, 2017

Air Quality and Industrial Sand (Frac Sand) Mining

By Isaac Orr, Mark Krumenacher

This Heartland Policy Study examines the best available scientific data on the effects of industrial sand mining on air quality, concluding those operations do not pose a threat to human health or the environment.

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2014 WINNERS

E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner is national spokesman for The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, editor of the Cornwall Alliance’s electronic newsletter, and author or co-author of several major papers and articles on global warming produced by the Cornwall Alliance.

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Alan Carlin

Dr. Alan Carlin, now retired, was a career environmental economist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1971 to 2009. His criticism of the agency’s draft Endangerment Finding led to efforts to silence him and orders to stop working on global warming issues. He chose to become a whistleblower, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute broke the story in June 2009.

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Tom Harris

Tom Harris is executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, a non-partisan group of independent scientists, economists, and energy and policy experts who are working to promote better understanding of climate science and policy worldwide.

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Sherwood Idso

Dr. Sherwood Idso, one of the world’s leading authorities on the effects of carbon dioxide on plants, is president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. Prior to 2001 he was a research physicist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked since 1967.

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Christopher Monckton

Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, is chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). He has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policy advisor.

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Patrick Moore

Dr. Patrick Moore is an internationally renowned ecologist and environmentalist. Beginning his career as an activist/leader in the Greenpeace movement he now concentrates on collaborative efforts aimed at finding environmental solutions. He speaks and lectures frequently at universities, community meetings, and conferences.

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Arthur B. Robinson

Dr. Arthur Robinson is a distinguished chemist, cofounder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and editor of the newsletter Access to Energy. He also works on the development of home schooling techniques and on the public dissemination of information on civil defense

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S. Fred Singer

Dr. S. Fred Singer was among the first and is still the most prominent scientist in the world speaking out against global warming alarmism. He is the author, coauthor, and editor of many books, including Climate Change Reconsidered (several volumes) and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.

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Willie Soon

Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and a geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. His discoveries challenge computer modelers and advocates who consistently underestimate solar influences on cloud formation, ocean currents, and wind that cause climate to change.

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Roy W. Spencer

Dr. Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He previously was a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites

The second Climate Change Awards were presented in July 2015 to five outstanding scientists, economists, and activists. The awards were sponsored by four organizations and each accompanied by cash stipends.

The award ceremonies took place at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change, an event hosted by The Heartland Institute and cosponsored by some 25 other organizations. The Climate Change Awards are not all from The Heartland Institute. Most awards have different sponsors, and Heartland only provides logistical support. Heartland created and hosts this Web site to promote award winners and award sponsors and to encourage others to sponsor awards and nominate candidates.

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2015 WINNERS

Robert Carter

Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, and marine geologist with a 50-year record of university teaching and publishing international research on ancient environmental and climatic change topics.

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William Happer

William Happer, Ph.D. is a physicist who has specialized in the interaction of atoms and nuclei with radiation. He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett professor of physics (emeritus) at Princeton University and a long-term member of the JASON advisory group, where he pioneered the development of adaptive optics and invented the sodium guide star to eliminate astronomical imaging blurring due to atmospheric turbulence.

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James Inhofe

U.S. Sen. James Inhofe is well known in his home state of Oklahoma and in Washington, DC as one of the most conservative members of the United States Senate. Human Events recently ranked Inhofe #1 on its list of the “Top 10 Most Outstanding Conservative Senators.” In 2013, National Journal ranked Inhofe among the top five most conservative members of the Senate.

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David Legates

David Legates, Ph.D. is professor of climatology in the Department of Geography at the University of Delaware and an adjunct professor at the university’s Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program and in the Department of Applied Economics.

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Anthony Watts

Anthony Watts is a 25-year broadcast meteorology veteran and currently chief meteorologist for KPAY-AM radio. He got his start as an on-air meteorologist for WLFI-TV in Lafayette, Indiana and at KHSL-TV in Chico, California.

http://climatechangeawards.org/alan-carlin/

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Lennie Jarratt is the project manager for the Center for Transforming Education at The Heartland Institute.

Jarratt is the former managing editor (2013 - 2014) of Champion News, an Illinois based news website focused on reporting on Education and Illinois Politics. Jarratt was the managing editor (2004 - 2011) of Education Matters which researched education in local school districts across Illinois.

Jarratt has presented analysis on Common Core and education choice on Fox News, Breitbart, ABC Chicago and multiple radio outlets and newspapers across the United States. He has been a presenter on panels discussingeducation choice, common core, homeschooling, and Illinois Freedom of Information Laws with groups such as American Majority,Americans for Prosperity (AFP), Illinois Tea Party groups, homeschool conventions, and state legislative hearings.

Jarratt received his bachelor’s degree from Virginia State University where he studied mathematics and computer science.

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The conference speakers did refer to science in passing—usually through sardonic quips about “alarmist” or "falsified" science—but their references gave me the feeling of being stuck in a time warp. There was an obsession with Al Gore and his 2007 film, An Inconvenient Truth,particularly the imagery of desperate polar bears. (“There is a problem with polar bears right now,” said Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe while receiving an award for political leadership. “It’s overpopulation.”)

Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” temperature reconstruction, first published in 1998, also remained a common punch line. Attendees seemed blissfully unaware of the pile of subsequent studies that have yielded the same result. To them, the hockey stick remains the emblem of debunked, fraudulent climate science—their enemy’s shattered sword.

The bugbear of land temperature records distorted by the urban heat island effect, too, is still being slain. The idea here is that as cities grew up around weather stations, all that concrete heats up in the midday sun, pushing thermometer readings higher and artificially creating the appearance of a warming trend. This does happen, as does the opposite. Speakers claimed repeatedly that researchers ignore this effect.

Though this sounds good, it's not true. (And the fact that there are no urban heat islands on the ocean, which covers most of the Earth’s surface, appears to be under-appreciated.) For instance, the Berkeley Earthproject, led by then-climate skeptic Richard Muller, was a privately funded effort purporting to address such warming biases in the temperature record. The project's record turned out to look just like all the others, and the team behind it concluded that the impact of the urban heat island effect was “indistinguishable from zero." That work was promptly discounted by groups like Heartland. When contrarian blogger Anthony Watts was asked during the conference about the Berkeley Earth project, he dismissed it by saying that the project hadn’t excluded “what I consider all of the bad data.”

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The discredited Heartland Institute is attempting to present itsnew NIPCC report,Climate Change Reconsidered, as a legitimate alternative authority to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But the NIPCC report is not a credible scientific undertaking, and the Heartland Institute has no credibility, scientific or otherwise.

Update: The Heartland Institute is planning to launch Climate Change Reconsidered at an event on September 18.

The following is a guest post by Climate Nexus. (The post in PDF format is here.)

With the launch of new NIPCC report, the discredited Heartland Institute goes head to head with the entire world’s foremost climate scientists.

Tomorrow the Heartland Institute launches a new report Climate Change Reconsidered. To write the report, Heartland assembled a group it calls the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a particularly revealing choice of name. The name, combined with the timing of the release to coincide with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s upcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), shows that Heartland is attempting to present itself as a legitimate alternative authority to the IPCC.

However, the Heartland institute is nowhere close to the IPCC in terms of credibility. A few key points show the NIPCC to be a transparent marketing gimmick rather than a legitimate scientific undertaking:

The NIPCC does not follow the same rigorous scientific evaluation process as the IPCC.

The Heartland Institute has a long history of opposing settled science in the interests of its free-market funders, and has used decidedly un-scientific tactics to do so.

The NIPCC vs. IPCC Process

The IPCC is supported by hundreds of scientists, think tanks, and organizations around the world that assess and synthesize the most recent climate change-related science. The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007, involved more than 500 Lead Authors and 2000 Expert Reviewers from more than one hundred participating nations. These authors and reviewers were all unpaid volunteers, and are required to identify and show consideration to theories that differ from conventional wisdom.

Unlike the IPCC, the NIPCC examines literature published exclusively by climate contrarians who are paid to contribute their findings to NIPCC reports, according to leaked internal documents of the Heartland Institute. The 2009 NIPCC report Climate Change Reconsidered hadtwo lead authors, Fred Singer and Craig Idso, and 35 contributors. Similarly, the 2011 Interim NIPCC report had three lead authors, Fred Singer, Craig Idso, and Robert Carter, and only eight contributors. The NIPCC does not employ the same rigorous standards and approval process used by the IPCC to ensure its assessment reports are accurate and inclusive.

The Heartland Institute’s Credibility

The Heartland Institute has a long history of valuing the interests of its financial backers over the conclusions of experts. It has campaigned against the threats posed by second-hand smoke, acid rain, and ozone depletion, as well as the Endangered Species Act. With its aggressive campaigning using tools such as billboards comparing climate change “believers” to the Unabomber, Heartland makes no pretense at being a scientific organization.

Heartland’s funding over the past decade has included thousands of dollars directly from ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute, but a large portion of their funding ($25.6 million) comes from the shadowy Donor’s Capital Fund, created expressly to conceal the identity of large donors to free-market causes. The Koch brothers appear to be funneling money into Donor’s Capital via their Knowledge and Progress Fund.

Heartland’s credibility has been so damaged that mainstream funders have been abandoning the organization, and it has been forced to discontinue its annual climate conference.

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http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/09/09/heartland-institute-nipcc-fail-the-credibility-test/

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list of almost all ICCC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The **International Conference on Climate Change** is aconference series organized and sponsored by The Heartland Institute which aims to bring together global warming "skeptics" who "dispute that the science is settled on the causes, consequences, and policy implications of climate change."[1][2][3] The conference has taken place 10 times between 2008 and 2015.[4] All but two of the events have been held in the United States.

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First conference, March 2008

The first conference was held in New York City.[5] Speakers included climatologist Patrick J. Michaels and physicist S. Fred Singer.[6]

Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change

The conference endorsed the work of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), which is a group of skeptics led by Fred Singer that disputes the positions of the United NationsIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).[7][8] Singer prepared a critique of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report called "Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate". This NIPCC report was published in March 2008 by the Heartland Institute.[9] ABC News said the same month that unnamed climate scientists from NASA, Stanford, and Princeton who spoke to ABC about the report dismissed it as "fabricated nonsense."[10] In a letter of complaint to ABC News, Singer said their piece used "prejudicial language, distorted facts, libelous insinuations, and anonymous smears".[11][12] Singer also said that the anonymous scientists, "are easily identified as the well-known global warming zealots Jim Hansen, Michael Oppenheimer and Steve Schneider."[11][12]

Manhattan Declaration

The conference led to the release of the Manhattan Declaration, declaring that carbon dioxide is essential for all life and calling for the immediate halt to any tax funded attempts to counteract climate change. The declaration says "assertions of a supposed 'consensus' among climate experts are false" and recommends "that all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith."[13]

It was signed by attendees at the 2008 conference described by The Heartland Institute as "world leading climate scientists, economists, policymakers, engineers, business leaders, medical doctors, as well as other professionals and concerned citizens".[14]

Signatories include Fred Singer, Anthony Watts, Piers Corbyn, Ian Plimer, Robert M. Carter, Roy Spencer and David Bellamy.[15]

Subsequent conferences

The second conference was held in New York City with the theme, "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?"[16][17] The keynote address was given by Czech Republic President Václav Klaus.[18][19] Other speakers included Jack Schmitt, Richard Lindzen, Stephen McIntyre, Willam Gray, Tom McClintock[20] and Christopher Booker.

The third conference was held in Washington, D.C.[21] The 2009 report of the NIPCC, "Climate Change Reconsidered",[22] was released in conjunction with the conference.

The fourth conference was held in Chicago, Illinois with the theme, "Reconsidering the Science and Economics."[23]

The fifth conference was held in Sydney, Australia.[24]

The sixth conference was held in Washington, D.C. with the theme, "Restoring the Scientific Method."[25]

The seventh conference was held in Chicago, Illinois with the theme, "Real Science, Real Choices."[26] Due to a controversial billboard ad run by the Heartland Institute leading up to the May 2012 conference, there was a drop in attendance and expected speakers Donna Laframboise and Ross McKitrick cancelled in protest.[27][28] At the end of the seventh conference, Heartland Institute president Joseph Bast announced that there were no plans to continue the conferences, due to flagging participation and funding shortfalls.[29]

The eighth conference was held in Munich, Germany in 2012 in partnership with the European Institute for Climate and Energy.[30][31]

[The Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, which took place on July 7-9, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 10th conference was held in Washington, DC in June 2015.[32]

Conference Presentations

Videos of most presentations at past ICCC conferences are maintained here. In addition to climate change science topics, presentations cover a variety of topics such as environmentalism, economic impacts, communication, green jobs, and politics.

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The Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (#ICCC10)

happened June 11-12, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Every keynote speech and panel session can be seen by clicking on the links below.

Grand Ballroom Sessions

Thursday, June 11

8:00 AM EST – Opening Breakfast Keynote with Sen. JamesInhofe

9:30 AM EST – Panel 1: Climate Science with Willie Soon, Ph.D., David Legates, Ph.D., and Patrick Michaels, Ph.D.

10:50 AM EST – Panel 3: Energy Realities with Mark Mills, Kathleen Hartnett White, and Howard Hayden

12:45 PM EST – Lunch Keynote with U.S.Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

2:15 PM EST – Panel 5: Climate Program Impacts with Cornelis van Kooten, Ph.D.,Wolfgang Müller,and Paul Driessen

3:45 PM EST – Panel 7: Climate Policy and National Security with Capt. Donald K. “Deke” Forbes (USN, ret.), Jay Lehr, Ph.D., and James Taylor

6:00 PM EST – A Recap of The Heartland Institute’s Trip to the Vatican Climate Conference

6:30 PM EST – Dinner Keynote with :{William :{Happer,:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}: Ph.D.:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:

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8:00 AM EST – Breakfast Keynote withMark Steyn

9:30 AM EST – Panel 9: Climate Change Reconsidered II: Human Welfare, Energy, and Policies with S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., Craig Idso, Ph.D., Christopher Monckton, and Bob Carter, Ph.D.

10:50 AM EST – Panel 11:Attacks on Scientists and the Corruption of Sciencewith Bob Carter, Ph.D, William Briggs, Tim Ball, and Christopher Monckton

12:45 PM EST – Keynote Lunch with Lord Christopher Monckton

2:15 PM EST – Panel 13: The Right Climate Stuff with Walter Cunningham, Tom Wysmuller, and Hal Doiron}}}}}}}}}}}_

Atrium Ballroom Sessions

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9:30 AM EST – Panel 2:Climate Science and Accurate DatawithAnthony Watts, Roy Spencer, Ph.D., and J. Scott Armstrong, Ph.D.

10:50 AM EST – Panel 4: Energy Policy withMarlo Lewis,Jay Lehr, Ph.D., and Isaac Orr

2:15 PM EST – Panel 6: Economic Policy with Benjamin Zycher, Tiffany Roberts, and David Kreutzer

3:45 PM EST – Panel 8: Human Health and Welfare with JamesEnstrom, Ph.D.,Stanley Young, Ph.D., and Charles Battig, M.D.}}}_

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9:30 AM EST – Panel 10: Climate Policy Impacts withState Sen. Carlyle Begay (D-Arizona),Alan Moran, and Amanda Maxham

10:50 AM EST – Panel 12: Effective Climate Science Communication with Tom Harris, JohnColeman, and Michael Bastasch

2:15 AM EST – Panel 14: Action Items for Policymakers with MarcMorano, Bette Grande, and Myron Ebell}}}_

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The Chicago-based non-profit think tank is an outspoken pundit of climate-change skepticism. But its billboard prompted U.S. Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) to rethink his scheduled speaking appearance at the Heartland Institute's upcoming International Conference on Climate Change. His press secretary told the Washington Post, "Congressman Sensenbrenner will not participate in the upcoming Climate Change Conference if the Heartland Institute decides to continue this ad campaign."

Author Donna Laframboise announced she will not attend the conference as planned. She recently published a book exposing fraud in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change but says her association with Heartland has now harmed her reputation. She complains she has been unwittingly and "publicly linked to an organization that thinks it's OK to equate people concerned about climate change with psychopaths."

Sunday's Guardian reported the London-based drinks company, Diageo, which owns brands such as Guinness and Smirnoff, has pulled funding for Heartland. According to a corporate spokesman, however, "Diageo's only association with the Heartland Institute was limited to a small contribution made two years ago specifically related to an excise tax issue." No other Heartland contributors have announced plans to end their support.

Environmental economist Ross McKitrick fired off a letter Friday to Heartland Institute President Joe Bast. "You cannot simultaneously say that you want to promote a debate while equating the other side to terrorists and mass murderers," he wrote. McKitrick said Bast responded immediately and agreed to pull the message.

Though the campaign is discontinued, Bast refused to apologize. Instead, he defended it, saying, "This billboard was deliberately provocative, an attempt to turn the tables on the climate alarmists by using their own tactics but with the opposite message." He said those on his side of the climate debate are "subjected to the most uncivil name-calling and disparagement you can possibly imagine from climate alarmists." Bast referenced such incidents as a 2010 congressional hearing when U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) made modest headlines comparing climate-change skeptics to Nazi deniers....

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 was an odd choice of icon for the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute. But there he was in round glasses, beard, and halo of curls staring out from T-shirts and coffee mugs at their gathering of climate change contrarians this week, the scientist whose internet sting set Heartland on its current course of collapse.

Heartland's seventh climate conference, which runs until Wednesday, was a much diminished event, compared to earlier lavish gatherings which spilled out over several floors of a hotel in New York's Time Square, and attracted up to 800 followers.

The tables were set for 270 at this year's gala, featuring the Czech president and climate contrarian Václav Klaus, and there were well over 100 no-shows. In a further sign of Heartland's cash crunch, meals were not included in this year's conference package.

"We have been under a lot of pressure over the last four months," Heartland's president, Joseph Bast, told the conference. "And I think we have discovered who our real friends are."

Now even those friends are upset with Heartland. Jim Sensenbrenner, the conservative Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin who was the only US politician to attend this year's conference, signalled his displeasure with the provocative billboard in his speech on Tuesday.

Sensenbrenner did not mention the billboard directly, but an aide told reporters earlier his words were intended as a criticism for Bast for leading Heartland into disaster. "How we conduct ourselves in this debate matters," Sensenbrenner said. He went on to accuse climate scientists of being partisan, but concluded: "Civility matters."

Other speakers were not concerned with civility, however. Britain's leading climate contrarian Christopher Monckton got a standing ovation for telling a series of "birther" jokes.

The pressure point occurred last February when the scientist on the conference mugs, Peter Gleick, used deception to obtain confidential documents from Heartland, including a donors list and plans to indoctrinate school children against belief in climate change.

Bast told the conference Heartland had met with the US attorney's office to discuss criminal charges against Gleick. He said Heartland was waiting for a formal decision before deciding whether to sue Gleick.

The exposure led some corporate donors to cut their funds to Heartland – until Bast committed a huge PR blunder, approving a provocative billboard ad likening scientists to psychopaths.

Donor flight accelerated, and Heartland has now lost some $825,000 (£523,000) in funding, according to the campaign group Forecast the Facts. Advocacy groups are meeting with some of Heartland's biggest remaining funders to persuade them to cut their ties.

The crisis forced Heartland to seek funds from the oil and coal industry – despite earlier claims to be independent of fossil fuel interests.

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Between them, the nearly 60 organisations listed by Heartland as conference sponsors have received nearly $22m from Exxon Mobil and the Koch oil billionaire family since 1998, according to an analysis by the campaign website Desmogblog.

Listed as a "gold level" sponsor of this week's conference was the Illinois Coal Association, although Heartland told reporters the contribution was only in the hundreds of dollars.

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Other allies were scarce. Only three groups set up tables at the conference. The largest was staffed by Americans for Prosperity, the ultra-conservative organisation founded by the Koch oil billionaires.

David From, who heads the Illinois chapter of Americans for Prosperity, said the contribution was only in the hundreds of dollars. He grimaced when asked about the Heartland billboard, which featured the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.

"It certainly got a lot of attention," From said.

Going to Heartland conferences was alwaysa bit like entering the portal to an alternative universe. Speakers and audience are almost entirely male, white and getting on in years. Jokes about Al Gore fly fast and furious, and can be counted on to get big laughs.

But this year's event had a sense of desperation. Speakers spoke about being "victimised" by "warmists" and "alarmists" – scientists and politicians who accept that carbon dioxide emissions from industry are a main driver of climate change.

And after nearly 30 years in operation, it is unclear what Heartland stands for when it comes to climate change – beyond resistance to putting any kind of restraint on business.

Klaus, who made his name as an economist before his election as president, sees environmental concerns as a red menace. "It is identical to communism – identical not similar," he warned.

John Dunn, a Heartland policy adviser, sees his role as fighting "enviro-fascist madness". In his speech, he sought to ridicule recorded evidence of growing drought and heatwaves due to climate change. "Warm is good for people, and it's particularly good for people as they get older," said Dunn. "The people that warm spells kill are already moribund." He went on to say that only extreme cold caused extra deaths.

The next speaker called for the return of the insecticide DDT, long banned in the US. "It's cheap, it's effective and it's perfectly safe for humans and for all wildlife."

Bast, meanwhile, in his speech pivoted from discrediting climate science – formerly the main Heartland mission – to policy, attacking Barack Obama for his "anti-energy" agenda.

Other speakers opened up attacks on Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, for failing to be supportive enough of the oil and gas industry.

But despite the coffee mugs and T-shirt giveaway, the biggest issue facing Heartland went largely unaddressed: how will the organisation recover from its twin setbacks, the expose by Gleick and the ad disaster approved by Bast?

Heartland had hoped to use the Gleick episode, which it calls "Fakegate", to gain sympathy, and rebuild a donor network. But even well-wishers acknowledged it would be an uphill climb for an organisation that was once at the hub of the climate contrarian network.

"It certainly raises the cost of doing business when your arch-enemies or a very vocal segment knows what you are up to in every little detail," said Marc Morano, who runs the contrarian website Climate Depot and spoke at the conference.

But he said he was hopeful that Heartland would come back. "I think it's a temporary feeding frenzy," he said. "If Heartland had just started last year and only had 10 donors when that happened it could have been fatal. But this is a hiccup."

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More context can be read in our blog launching this investigation: ***Heartland Institute Sting Operation Triggers Greenpeace Investigations.***

COMPANIES ENDING HEARTLAND INSTITUTE FUNDING

due to climate change denial campaigns:

Heartland's entire Finance, Insurance and Real Estate program (now the R Street Institute), including:

Farmer's Insurance and Nationwide Insurance have also confirmed (E&E News ClimateWire) they will not support the Heartland Institute. **Microsoft** has stated that "the Heartland Institute’s position on climate change is diametrically opposed to Microsoft’s position. And we completely disagree with the group’s inflammatory and distasteful advertising campaign."

SEE FORECAST THE FACTS FOR A FULL LOOK AT CORPORATE FUNDERS WHO HAVE LEFT OR STAYED WITH THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE'S CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIAL

ABOUT THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE INVESTIGATIONS:

The urgency of the global warming crisis has never been greater. Even as Republican presidential candidates vie for the greatest policy flip flopper or denier of global warming, the planet is experiencing weather extremes at a staggering pace. The summer of 2011 set multiple U.S. heat records and thousands of monthly temperature, rainfall, drought, flooding and wildfirerecords were set in 2011. This reality has not stopped the Heartland Institute from politicizing and denying the science of climate change and muddying the policy process to address the crisis.

Internal documents published on DeSmogBlog prompted multiple Greenpeace investigations into the Heartland Institute's influence on our government, our universities, and our public opinion and what implications they have on our ability to stop global warming. Our investigations in response to leaked Heartland documents are cataloged below.

For more, see our multiple investigations below as well as the Heartland Institute and Joseph Bast PolluterWatch profiles.

Heartland Institute Investigations blogroll: (back to top)

Heartland Institute Sting Operation Triggers Greenpeace Investigations (3/12/2012)

Heartland Institute Scandals Convince Columnist of Climate Change Reality (3/14/2012)

How the Heartland Institute Deceived Me with Underhand Tactics (3/15/2012)

Heartland Institute and ALEC Partner to Pollute Classroom Science (3/30/2012)

GM Drops Heartland, Coke and Pepsi drop ALEC (4/5/2012)

Climate Denial University? The Heartland Institute's Toxic Presence in Higher Education (4/12/2012)

Heartland Institute Compares Climate Advocates to Mass Murderers (5/5/2012)

More corporate funders drop Heartland Institute, yet some major names remain (5/15/2012)

Jump to investigation:

*INVESTIGATION #1 JOSEPH BAST’S CLIMATE CHANGE PHILOSOPHY FLIP FLOP

*INVESTIGATION #2 HEARTLAND INSTITUTE PAYMENTS TO FEDERAL SCIENTISTS AND CAREER CLIMATE DENIERS

*INVESTIGATION #3: PAYMENTS TO UNIVERSITY FACULTY FOR "CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED" ANTI-SCIENCE REPORTS

*INVESTIGATION #4: THE GLOBAL WARMING CURRICULUM PROJECT

Updated 10/22/2012

INVESTIGATION #1:JOSEPH BAST’S CLIMATE CHANGE PHILOSOPHY FLIP FLOP (back to top)

Mr. Bast gave a bizarre interview  in E&E News' ClimateWire wherein he predicted that the climate crisis would be “old news” within five to ten years. But Bast can’t seem to keep his story straight on the science in two interviews from one day to the next:

From a Wall Street Journalvideo interview the day before (Feb. 22, 2012):

{{{{WSJ}_: What is the Heartland Institute's position on global warming? [emphasis added]

Bast: "We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem. We think that that's pretty much actually the consensus of working scientists in this area."}}}_

Fact check: Actual scientific consensus on global warming (from real scientists that research and publish scrutinized reports) is getting stronger.

Compare Bast’s recognition of a “measurable human impact” with another interview one day later from E&E News’ ClimateWire:

{{_{*As president of the Heartland Institute, Bast has established a no-surrender strategy to challenge the scientific accord that humans are causing a rise in temperatures. He is a bearded Midwesterner with strong suspicions that a small group of politically connected climate scientists are influencing their community's behavior. The result, he thinks, is an outsized, but shrinking, agreement that man's activity is altering the climate.

"I'm confident that the scientific basis behind the threat has pretty much melted away. So I talk about the global warming ... delusion and how it's gradually unwinding," "It's like any other apocalyptic movement. These things crest, and then they start to retreat, until the next apocalyptic movement comes along and gives us something to get all worried about."*}}}_

In the same E&E ClimateWire interview, Bast criticized the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as climate science capitulators who committed what he called "pre-emptive surrender" for admitting there is serious man made warming and engaging the policy arena. "You don't concede the science,” Bast said of AEI’s stance. Ironically, Bast conceded seven months earlier that Heartland's position doesn't match broad scientific consensus. In an interview with the scientific journalNature, Bast explained, "We've won the public opinion debate, and we've won the political debate as well. But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration."

{{_{Why is this important? Because Heartland has spent the last decade pushing mythology about climate science, working to bend the public opinion needle back, attacking Al Gore and legitimate climate scientists including Peter Gleick and Michael Mann. The more any given scientist tries to bring their work out of the journals and into public warnings about real world impacts, the more they find themselves in Heartland’s crosshairs. Bast is very consistent with his inconsistencies on climate science, a clear indicator

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PolluterWatch has aggregated Joseph Bast quotes demonstrating his shocking, inconsistent or blatantly incorrect statements.

INVESTIGATION #2: HEARTLAND INSTITUTE PAYMENTS TO FEDERAL SCIENTISTS AND CAREER CLIMATE DENIERS (back to top)

Last month, Greenpeace sent letters (linked below) of inquiry to the U.S. Departments of Energy and the Interior where individuals are receiving monthly checks from Heartland for services rendered. The Heartland Budget document details $300,000/year in payments to climate denier scientists such as Fred Singer, Craig Idso, Bob Carter and Willie Soon to confront the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and write contrarian critiques of published peer-reviewed climate science:

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One of the scientists on the Heartland ledger is Indur Goklany, who is listed as working at the US Department of the Interior (DOI). We sent a letter to the DOI questioning Heartland’s payments to Indur Goklany. Triggered by our letter, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona called for a congressional hearing on Goklany’s financial ties to Heartland. After House Natural Resources committee chairman Doc Hastings denied Rep. Grijalva’s request, Grijalva succeeded in initiating an investigation over this potential conflict of interest through DOI’s Inspector General.

Talking Points Memo confirmed that “The Interior Department is “reviewing” whether a government climate change expert held over from the Bush administration received improper payments from an institution known for its opposition to environmental regulation, a spokesman tells TPM.”

Unfortunately we only have confirmation of 2012 payments on Heartland’s books. We don’t know how far back these payments go nor the total that Goklany or others have received from Heartland through the years.

See Greenpeace's letter to theDepartment of Energy

See Greenpeace's letter to the Department of the Interior

INVESTIGATION #3: PAYMENTS TO UNIVERSITY FACULTY FOR “CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED” ANTI-SCIENCE REPORTS (back to top)

Following the leak of internal Heartland Institute documents, six universities with faculty listed in Heartland's budget for work relating to denying the science or implications of global climate change received letters from Greenpeace asking for conflict of interest investigations (see the Chronicle of Higher Education's coverage). Of those six, four have made some movement that open up a variety of unanswered questions:

- UPDATE: see Greenpeace's response to Mizzou, expressing concern over Prof. Lupo's contracted climate work for Heartland being "beyond his scientific qualifications," and asking how Mizzou "ensures that its Global Climate Change Group is not inhibited by political bias when conducting and promoting academic research on global climate change."Mizzou has not responded to Greenpeace (10/22/2012).

Canadian schools Greenpeace wrote to have not responded, but are mentioned in this article by the Muse. Another school, Carleton University, recently audited and discovered was recently subject to an audit discovering significant classroom bias against sound climate science in the case of Tom Harris, also affiliated with Heartland (see the Guardian).

Unanswered questions among all these inquiries could indicate tense internal politics at Heartland if they were making up names in their budget for the sake of impressing the board, making plans look finalized for fundraising purposes, or given inaccurate information from major contractors like Craig Idso.

INVESTIGATION #4: THE GLOBAL WARMING CURRICULUM PROJECT (back to top)

Greenpeace sent a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) about a part time employee there who is also on Heartland’s 2012 books to write K-12 curriculum on a contrarian view of the climate science consensus:

In the Heartland fundraising plan states that the Anonymous Donor Barre Seid has pledged $100,000 for this project (100% of its committed financing) as it laments that “Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective.” To fight this, they hope to develop curriculum “modules” to insert doubt into climate science lessons:

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In the recent Wall Street Journalinterview however, Bast manages to reframe the K-12 climate curriculum project completely.

WSJ: What about the program for schools?

Bast: "What we want to do is bring real research and real science into the classroom. Teach kids about critical thinking, let them understand that to try to find the human fingerprint on climate is a big challenge."

We would love to see Mr. Bast answer some tough questions on global warming science and policy in front of a class at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, outside of Washington DC in Virginia, one of the top science high schools in the country.

INVESTIGATIONS ARE ONGOING -- POLLUTERWATCH WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE.

http://www.polluterwatch.com/greenpeace-investigates-heartland-institute-leaked-documents

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http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/05/heartland-institute-facing-uncertain-future-staff-depart-and-cash-dries

2012

Heartland Institute Facing Uncertain Future As Staff Departs and Cash Dries Up

The free-market think tank's conference opens in Chicago with president admitting defections are hurting group's finances.

—By Suzanne Goldenberg | Mon May 21, 2012

This story first appeard on the Guardian website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The first Heartland Institute conference on climate change in 2008 had all the trappings of a major scientific conclave—minus large numbers of real scientists. Hundreds of climate change contrarians, with a few academics among them, descended into the banquet rooms of a lavish Times Square hotel for what was purported to be a reasoned debate about climate change.

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But as the latest Heartland climate conference opens in a Chicago hotel on Monday, the think tank's claims to reasoned debate lie in shreds and its financial future remains uncertain.

Heartland's claims to "stay above the fray" of the climate wars was exploded by a billboard campaign earlier this month comparing climate change believers to the Unabomer Ted Kaczynski, and a document sting last February that revealed a plan to spread doubt among kindergarteners on the existence of climate change.

Along with the damage to its reputation, Heartland's financial future is also threatened by an exodus of corporate donors as well as key members of staff.

In a fiery blog post on the Heartland website, the organization's president, Joseph Bast, admitted Heartland's defectors were "abandoning us in this moment of need".

Over the last few weeks, Heartland has lost at least $825,000 in expected funds for 2012, or more than 35 percent of the funds its planned to raise from corporate donors, according to the campaign group Forecast the Facts, which is pushing companies to boycott the organization.

The organization has been forced to make up those funds by taking its first publicly acknowledged donations from the coal industry. The main Illinois coal lobby is a last-minute sponsor of this week's conference, undermining Heartland's claims to operate independently of fossil fuel interests.

Its entire Washington, DC, office, barring one staffer, decamped, taking Heartland's biggest project, involving the insurance industry, with them.

Board directors quit, conference speakers canceled at short notice, and longtime associates demanded Heartland remove their names from its website. The list of conference sponsors shrank by nearly half from 2010, and many of those listed sponsors are just websites operating on the right-wing fringe.

"It's hemorrhaging," said Kert Davies, research director of Greenpeace, who has spent years tracking climate-denying outfits. "Heartland's true colors finally came through, and now people are jumping ship in quick order."

It does not look like Heartland is about to adopt a corrective course of action.

In his post, Bast defended the ads, writing: "Our billboard was factual: the Unabomber was motivated by concern over man-made global warming to do the terrible crimes he committed." He went on to describe climate scientist Michael Mann and activist Bill McKibben as "madmen."

The public unraveling of Heartland began last February when the scientist Peter Gleick lied to obtain highly sensitive materials, including a list of donors.

The publicity around the donors' list made it difficult for companies with public commitment to sustainability, such as the General Motors Foundation, to continue funding Heartland. The GM Foundation soon announced it was ending its support of $15,000 a year.

But what had been a gradual collapse quickened when Heartland advertised its climate conference with a billboard on a Chicago expressway comparing believers in climate science to the Unabomber.

The slow trickle of departing corporate donors turned into a gusher.

Even Heartland insiders, such as Eli Lehrer, who headed the organization's Washington group, found the billboard too extreme. Lehrer, who headed the biggest project within Heartland, on insurance, immediately announced his departure along with six other staff.

"The ad was ill advised," he said. "I'm a free-market conservative with a long right-wing résumé and most, if not all, of my team fits the same description and all of us found it very problematic. Staying with Heartland was simply not workable in the wake of this billboard."

Heartland took down the billboard within 24 hours, but by then the ad had gone viral.

Lehrer, who maintains the split was amicable, said the billboard had undermined Heartland's claims to be a serious conservative think tank.

"It didn't reflect the seriousness which I want to bring to public policy," Lehrer said in the telephone interview. "As somebody who deals mostly with insurance I believe all risk have to be taken seriously and there certainly are some important climate and global warming related risks that must be taken account of in the insurance market. Trivializing them is not consistent with free-market thought. Suggesting they are only thought about by people who are crazy is not good for the free market."

Other Heartland allies came to a similar conclusion. In a letter to Heartland announcing he was backing out from the conference, Ross McKitrick, a Canadian economist, wrote: "You can not simultaneously say that you want to promote a debate while equating the other side to terrorists and mass murderers."

A number of other experts meanwhile began cutting their ties with Heartland, according to a tally kept by a Canadian blogger BigCityLiberal.

Meanwhile, there was growing anger that Bast failed to consult with colleagues before ordering up the Kaczynski attack ads.

Four board members told the Guardian they had not been consulted in advance about the ad. "I did not have prior approval of the billboard and was in favor of discontinuing the billboard when I was made aware of it," Jeff Judson, a Texas lobbyist and board member, wrote in an email.

Could the turmoil and discontent at Heartland eventually prove its undoing? Campaigners would certainly hope so. "We are watching the consequences of an organization that acts quite randomly and that is actually an extremist organization in the end," Davies said. "They are not built to be at the hump of the climate denial movement."

But while more mainstream corporate entities are deserting Heartland, others are stepping into the breach, including the coal lobby and conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation.

Both the Illinois Coal Association and Heritage stepped in to fund this week's conference, after other corporate donors began backing out in protest at the offensive Kaczynski ad.

Meanwhile, a Greenpeace analysis of the other smaller conference sponsors suggests they have collectively received $5 million in funds from Exxon and other oil companies.

The Coal Association and Heritage were not listed on the original conference sponsor list, but they appeared to come in about a week or so after the appearance of the offending Kaczynski ad.

Phil Gonet, the chief lobbyist for the 20 coal companies in the association, said he had no qualms about stepping in to fund the Heartland conference.

"We support the work they are doing and so we thought we would finally make a contribution to the organization," he said, calling criticism of the ad "moot", "pointless," and "absurd".

Gonet went on: "I made a contribution mainly in support of a conference that is designed to make balanced information available to the public on the issue of global warming…In general, the message of the Heartland Institute is something the Illinois Coal Association supports."

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Inside Look at the World’s Largest Climate Denial Conference

Connor Gibson, Greenpeace

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“Sold out … ?! No way. Cannot be true.” I swore to myself. In all of its awkward history, The Heartland Institute’s conferences for climate change deniers have never sold out. This year it did, and I wanted in.

These events aren’t something to look forward to. It’s mostly angry, aged white men in suits, lying to themselves about climate change for two days straight in sterile air conditioning, safe from the evils of sun and breeze.

But my job is to keep tabs on these folks, so I spend a lot of time in the dungeons of denial.

This year, after a troubled recent history, Heartland hosted their tenth International Conference on Climate Change, or #ICCC10, in a much smaller space: the basement of the Washington Court Hotel, in Washington, DC.

Reluctantly, I emailed Jim Lakely, Heartland’s communications director, to get on the waiting list. Jim and I have a strained relationship from past encounters, but I was banking on Heartland’s “come one, come all” invitations, which reasonable people tend to ignore once they see Heartland’s work.

I never heard back from Jim, but decided to go anyway. I’m not a journalist, I work at Greenpeace and that affiliation comes with plenty of apprehension in the world of corporate lobbying.

Ironically, Jim Lakely was the first person I saw when I arrived at the hotel, standing outside in the oppressive heat, sucking down a nice, healthy cigarette. This was fitting: Heartland is on Big Tobacco’s payroll and still downplays the health hazards of smoking.

Knowing Jim would recognize me and likely ask me to leave before speaking to any conference guests, I ducked discreetly into the conference.

I immediately bumped intoMarc Morano, the self-glorifying public relations consultant you’ve probably seen shouting at Bill Nye on cable TV. If you can bear the nonsense, you can hear my informal debate with Marc Morano, including his take on “the uphill battle that skeptics face,” and climate denial among 2016 Presidential contenders.

The next person I saw was Dr. Roy Spencer, one of the world’s few scientists to deny the evidence that people play a role in causing climate change. Credible climate scientists have wasted time and effort debunking his nonsense claims. Dr. Spencer has retaliated by calling his critics “global warming Nazis,” as he explained to me:

Nazi accusations aside, the rest of what Dr. Spencer was full of self-contradiction.

Just after claiming his latest research shows “no warming,” he acknowledged a warming trend of global average surface temperature.

n Then he backtracked, asserting “we have no idea what’s natural and what’s man-made.” A minute later, he was even more certain on this, saying, “there is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.”

Except there is, I told him.

“That’s bullshit,” he maintained.

The unedited interview with Roy Spencer at Heartland Institute’s ICCC10 is available in full, for posterity.

Up until this point, I had been contained in the lobby. For whatever reason, Heartland’s private security left before the conference actually ended, opening the main area to guests like myself. I took the elevator down to the basement floor and scanned for familiar faces. In short order, I found one.

Unlike almost everyone else working with The Heartland Institute, Isaac Orr is young. Kind of like me.

This perplexes me—why the hell would a young person work to make their own future worse? Why help coal and oil lobbyists cook our planet? What price is worth that risk.

I have yet to find out. Mr. Orr brushed me aside while he sucked away at a Dum-Dum. I can’t blame him—the conference was winding down, and he was probably bored to death by the stale company:

What finally got me kicked out was a very short interaction with Dr. Willie Soon, an aerospace engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who says “too much ice is really bad for polar bears.” Documents obtained by Greenpeace and the Climate Investigations Center show Soon has been exclusively financed by fossil fuel companies, their lobbying organizations and dark money nonprofits with known ties to industry.

An expose of Dr. Soon in The New York Times last February revealed how the discredited scientist promised coal utility Southern Company “deliverables” in the form of undermining climate policies discussed by Congress, and attacks on Kansas clean energy incentives for the Charles Koch Foundation. These revelations sparked an ongoing investigation of Dr. Soon’s conduct by his employer.

The public and the press were shocked, but this is routine for Dr. Soon. He’s been taking industry money for over a decade, pushing his discredited analysis with persistence even as climate scientists around the world pick apart his empty theory.

Funny enough, even other climate denier scientists don’t think much of Dr. Soon’s research. Here’s Roy Spencer:

This disagreement is illustrative of a much larger maze of contradicting positions taken by climate science deniers, with only one consistent theme: do not try to solve global warming. They’re all pretty clear on that.

That’s why we need independent people—with zero obligation to enrich corporate clients—to call out climate change deniers. We’ve wasted enough time giving consideration to these fake “skeptics.”

The best we can do is help them trip over their own words, and push forward with real solutions to climate change.

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pix: Alex Epstein, author of forthcoming The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, sports his I Heart Fossil Fuels T-Shirt

I’ve been researching the climate denial industry for almost three years and the best way to gather information about this incredibly small yet influential clique is to hang out with them. I attended their 2012 conference of the Heartland Institute, an oil and tobacco funded free market think tank that spends a lot of time and effort trying to call bullshit on what is clearly not bullshit – the science of climate change. My presence was clearly unwelcome – but I guess they forgot to scrub me from their email invitation list, because I got invited again this year, to their 9th International Conference on Climate Change in the deep heat of the Nevada desert amid the chaos of Las Vegas casinos.

The choice of Vegas by Heartland seemed brilliantly provocative. A celebration of high-stakes capitalism in the very gambling dens where $92 billion is lost each year in pursuit of the American dream. The dazzling lights, the grotesquely oversized hotels, the free drinks.

Perhaps nowhere on earth is more profligate and wasteful of increasingly scarce natural resources than this twisted utopia. The Republican Party reportedly blackballed Vegas for its 2016 convention fearing its Christian supporters would be repelled by this den of iniquity – and that its legislators would be lured into its brothels and casinos. Scientists have explicitly stated we are “loading the dice” by raising temperatures so that extreme weather and deadly catastrophes will become more frequent – gambling with our future, basically. Joseph Bast, the president of Heartland, was surely thumbing his nose at his detractors.

Heartland has had a torrid two years. Dr Peter Gleick, a hydro-climatologist and author, took the unusual step of posing as a board member and tricking Heartland staff into sending him a trove of highly secret internal documents. The papers revealed that Heartland was working with a coal industry consultant in order to enter American schools and attack climate science.

Two months later, and just ahead of their 2012 conference in hometown Chicago, Heartland made the bizarre decision to erect a huge advertising billboard attacking climate science on the basis that the terrorist Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, had apparently been concerned about global warming. This gave their archenemies Greenpeace US and Forecast the Facts the ammunition they needed to successfully lobby funders to withdraw.

The Vegas conference was going a good opportunity to enter this strange world again. But did I really want to spend a week in the middle of dustbowl America with three hundred climate cranks who would crowd around trying to tell me how wrong I am about everything if they knew the first thing about me?

"When I finally got there I was confronted by a stout, hairy American wearing tight black underpants."

24 hours later and I touched down at the Vegas airport in the dead of night, bathed in light. The Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, a gold-plated monument to excess, appeared to be next to the runway. Still it took 20 minutes and $20 dollars for a cab driver to get me there.

This sub-prime feeling hotel was the perfect setting for Heartland. The deregulated casinos glared as they took people’s money and the acrid smell of tobacco was pervasive. The hotel was brash, huge, and run down. All fur coat and moth eaten. There were loud renovations taking place when I arrived. The front desk had double booked my room, so when I finally got there I was confronted by a stout, hairy American wearing tight black underpants. Mercifully I was relocated.

The morning after my arrival I met Christopher Monckton, who had agreed to have breakfast with me. Within minutes I found myself almost entirely lost in confusing nonsense. Monckton repeated his claim to be a member of the House of Lords, which has been denied by the House of Lords, and having been the scientific advisor to Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s when she first championed climate science, which has also been debunked.

The aristocrat, a classically trained architect and one-time journalist, told me he had produced a very simple climate model that proved actual scientists had exaggerated the threat of climate science and that there was no evidence that heating the atmosphere was dangerous.

Monckton has worked closely with the ominous sounding neoliberal think tank, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). They even hired a plane so he couldparachute uninvited into the Durban climate conference. CFACT has enjoyed significant funding from ExxonMobil and other oil and car industrialists. So I asked Monckton if he had benefited from ExMo’s largesse. “The cheque has not yet arrived in the post,” he joked, before asking if I was “left wing”.

Monckton then told me he attended climate conferences because it was better than sitting at home on his sofa and he cared for the future of society. He had refused his $1,000 Heartland fee. I asked him how this chimed with his belief in the free market, that rested on the idea that people only respond to financial incentives. He grinned.

After I had paid for his breakfast he said something that really surprised me. We were walking past the slot machines when I asked him what he thought of Vegas. He said he believed gambling to be immoral. The casinos were profiting from people’s lack of a good education and fundamental misunderstanding of mathematics. He said Heartland had, in fact, chosen Vegas to make the point that climate scientists had failed to understand risk.

Dr Willie Soon. He claims Albert Einstein would have been a sceptic and accused the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as “gangter science” during his presentation.

Bearded Joseph Bast opened the conference that evening. He said, “Speaking of funding and for the record, except for $150 from the Illinois Coal Association and another $150 from Liberty Coin Service, a great little coin shop in Lansing, Michigan, owned by my old friend Pat Heller, no corporate money was raised for this conference. And no, not a nickel from the Koch brothers" – owners of Koch Industries, the largest privately held firm in the United States and a major player in the oil refinery industry. The humorously small donations were meant to prove that Big Oil was not behind this jamboree.

The remarks came seconds after he thanked his co-sponsors, who included the Media Research Center, Heritage Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, CFACT, and the George C. Marshall Institute – many of which have been funded by oil corporations and some by Charles Koch foundations.

The fact checking website Media Matters for Americaput out a blog post about some of the _{speakers}__{’ }__{various links to oil}_. But their website was blocked in the hoteland the Heartland delegates, all doughty defenders of free speech, were left in the dark.

Then the shadow-side of this comic dishonesty and hypocrisy became almost too much to bear. Dr S Fred Singer, a folk hero around here, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. He in turn presented the Frederick Seitz Award. If one man can take credit for inventing climate denial it is Singer. The old man once claimed, rather brilliantly, that, “My connection to oil during the past decade is as a Wesson Fellow at the Hoover Institution; the Wesson money derives from salad oil.” Exxon had given Singer $10,000 in funding just a few years earlier.

The late Dr Seitz had many achievements in his lifetime. But the one I will remember him for was contributing indirectly to the deaths of millions of Americans. He sat on the medical research committee of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and oversaw $45 million in medical funding which his critics claimed “served the tobacco industry’s purposes.” Much of my close family has been wiped out by smoking related diseases, so this one sticks out for me.

The Heartland conference was now in full swing and my brain began to melt. There was the usual monotony of badly put together Powerpoint slides, rambling speeches and desperate attempts to resurrect climate science controversies buried by actual scientists almost three decades ago. The speakers were being paid around $1,000 to attend, plus flights and large hotel suites.

The hundreds of sceptics around me not once questioned the bizarre, the illogical, the poorly constructed claims that swirled in front of our eyes. This parody of science was a deadly hybrid of 1970s Open University programmes and sub-Cirque du Soleil.

In the intervals I managed to speak to some of the key deniers. Dr Patrick Michaels has been vilified by Greenpeace and was one of the early generation of scientists to take money from coal companies to argue against mainstream climate science. He once admitted on national television that 40 percent of his funding comes from the oil industry.

He told me how as a young scientist he challenged what he thought of as a monolithic orthodoxy of climate change only to see his government research grants dwindle. Believing himself to be among the most brilliant he was insulted that he was in fact one of the worst paid in his profession. Thankfully, car companies were willing to secretly pay him to help them fight environmental legal battles.

Later I spoke to Dr Willie Soon, one of the few professional scientists in the room. He wasoncefunded by Exxon, the American Petroleum Institute and one way or another by Charles Koch. Greenpeace used Freedom of Information laws to expose his financial support from oil barons through his university. Soon told me Exxon broke off his funding, without so much as a kiss goodbye. Soon was another sad sack who seemed convinced of his own brilliance and dumbfounded at the lack of recognition. At Heartland he was given a glass trophy and a round of applause.

I was then witness to a suited Greenpeace activist dressing down Anthony Watts, the one-time weatherman who blogs at Watts Up With That?, in a hallway. Watts broke the story of Climategate, when thousands of private emails between climate scientists were hacked and published online. The emails were presented as evidence of a lurid and global conspiracy to fool the public into fearing global warming. They weren't.

Then I ran into :{James :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}::{Delingpole:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:, the one-time Telegraph Online journalist who spewed vitriol at climate scientists and their defenders. I was about to undergo the kind of nasty, bitter confrontation I wanted to avoid.

Delingpole went to Oxford University with the British Prime Minister David Cameron but his novels didn’t do brilliantly:{ and he was never invited into London Society. Delingpole’s other claim to fame was being }made to look a complete fool:{ when Sir Paul Nurse, filming for the BBC, asked if he had read the abstract of any scientific papers (the short introduction which sets out the significance of the study). Delingpole, who claims to have found a remarkable global conspiracy to fake climate research, admitted he hadn’t. So I just asked James if he had read any abstracts since. “No”. I couldn’t quite believe it.}:

Delingpole has written off one of the most influential climate studies as “ludicrous, comedy” and claimed its author, Professor Michael Mann at Penn State University, has “little discernible talent”. But during our confrontation he confirmed he had never interviewed Mann, never read his book and never read any of his scientific papers. I was dumbfounded.

Delingpole was furious. He raged and spat and accused me of being a troll. He attacked my journalism, having not read any, and attacked my opinions, having not heard any. All of this was being filmed by two French filmmakers. I was shaking. More in anger than in sorrow. “Can I give you some friendly advice,” I said.

“I don’t want your friendly advice, Mr Montague”, he said.

“Why don’t you read the abstracts to three scientific papers. Then you won’t look like such a fool next time someone asks that question. It doesn’t take long.”

The argument fizzled out and we both went our separate ways, huffing. And then I felt sad for Delingpole. Why was he even at this conference? He could be at home with hisfamily, playing Scrabble. It seems he is driven by ambition, but had made it no further than the basement conference hall of a faded hotel in Vegas.

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After three days locked into this air-conditioned hell Wednesday was upon us and the conference finally drew to a close. And I remembered we were in Vegas. I buttonholed Joseph Bast and asked whether he had indeed chosen Vegas as a brilliantly daring provocation to his critics. The spin of the roulette wheel reminded me at least of the madness of sub-prime mortgages and credit default swaps that plunged millions of Americans into penury. Was it social commentary? “No”, he said. “The rooms were cheap”.

It would almost be possible to dismiss this whole crowd as a bunch of sad cranks. Somewhere between 9/11 Truthers and homeopathic doctors. Not just snake oil salesmen but snake oil customers at the same time. Immune to the accumulating evidence that free market economics is not only responsible for the economic crash of 2008, but also the ever-closer ecological catastrophe.

"They are full of shit. But they are having a real influence on American politics."

They would just be sad sacks if they were not also influential. Among the delegates swarm the sharks just as surely as they do in the Mandalay Bay Hotel aquarium. Myron Ebell of CEI who once conspired with a White House insider to downplay climate in a seminal government report. Senator James Inhofe who, by video call, told the troops to ready themselves to take Congress in November. They also influence lower level officials.

During one dinner I sat next to Rod Wright, a brilliantly funny and apparently savvy Democrat state senator from the environmentalist hotbed California. Rod, one of only two black people I saw out of a claimed 600 attendees, told me how he became suspicious of renewable energy, and then climate science more generally.

These suspicions were confirmed by the avalanche of literature he received from the Heartland Institute. His colleagues deserted him but he was steeled by the support of the free market think tank. “You have to sift information through your own filter”, he told me. “Their funding does not devalue their information. Everybody got money from somebody. Jesus said, ‘Let he without sin cast the first stone’.” He smiles, before adding. “I have looked at some of their work on insurance and I think they’re full of shit.” (I read later that Wright has been convicted of voter fraud).

They are full of shit. But they are having a real influence on American politics. They are just one of the hundreds of Koch and Exxon funded think tanks and fake grassroots campaigns that have frustrated and blocked Obama’s administration at every turn. As I leave the conference I find it hard to reconcile what I have learned. These people are just cranks but they are perverting American politics. I did learn in Vegas that attacks from these people are not going to hurt me.

In the casino the tragedy of the American Dream continues. Hardworking Americans sit emotionless pouring their salaries into slot machines. Believing the dream. But investing every last dime in a desperate and, for the overwhelming majority, simply hopeless attempt to escape. I watch a guy burn $2,500 in 20 minutes during a spiral of roulette stupidity.

When you see the homelessness in Vegas, and the drug addiction, and you know there is no real welfare state over here, no safety net. These Heartland folk are just a few pay cheques from freefall. They're not going to get headhunted by Stanford University any time soon. They believe themselves too educated to survive McJobs. They are clinging on. They’re hustling. That’s what you do in Vegas.

Brendan Montague is a London based investigative journalist who has published in The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday and The Guardian. He is founder of theRequest Initiative, which boasts Greenpeace UK among its NGO clients.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/06/12/:{2015:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:/climate-skeptics-convene-on-capitol-hill.html

his week, the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change convened in Washington, D.C. But don't confuse it with the "IPCC"—the United Nations group that puts out climate reports based on the work of hundreds of scientists. The ICCC, as this conference is known, is instead sponsored by the Heartland Institute—the conservative think tank that promotes skepticism about human-caused global warming.

The Takeaway's Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich attended the meeting, and reports here on comments by Senator Jim Inhofe and Representative Lamar Smith, and discusses whether some politicians are shifting their tactics on climate change. Dave Levitan, a science writer at FactCheck.org, double-checks the science behind a few of climate claims.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/12/inhofe-pope-francis-climate-change/

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They include discredited fossil fuel-funded scientist Willie Soon; Marc Morano, executive editor of the denial website ClimateDepot.com and one of the main subjects of the documentary *Merchants of Doubt*; and two congressmen, including the infamous, snowball-throwing chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, James Inhofe. When you’ve got the author of The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World and Bass Ackwards: How Climate Alarmists Confuse Cause With Effect (those are written by retired University of Connecticut physics professor Howard Hayden) and another speaker whose touted as “a popular guest of America’s number one radio show, the Rush Limbaugh Show,” it’s pretty clear what direction the event is going to take.

And according to *The Guardian* of London, “Lamar Smith, the Texas congressman who heads the science, space and technology committee, raised cheers from the room when he said he proposed a 40 percent cut in NASA’s budget for Earth sciences last week.” So the crowd clearly heard what they came for.

Inhofe opened the conference with a keynote address flogging the same narrative he’s been putting out there since the 2012 publication of his bookThe Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, passing out sheets with 12 talking points for those intent on refuting the evidence of climate change.

He dismissed the upcoming Paris climate summit as nothing  but a bunch of talk, saying, “They talked about it—very good. Now they say it is all going to come together in Paris, and I don’t think it is.” And he assured his audience that the Republican Party will stand firm with them on climate change, saying, “If you look at Republican candidates, they are all denying this stuff with the exception of Lindsey Graham. They’re all with the people in this room.”

He also took potshots at Pope Francis, who has spoken out repeatedly on climate change and is expected to deliver his long-awaited encyclical on the topic next week.

“Everyone is going to ride the Pope now. Isn’t that wonderful,” said Inhofe sarcastically. “The Pope ought to stay with his job, and we’ll stay with ours.”

“I am not going to talk about the Pope,” he said, immediately after doing so. “Let him run his shop, and we’ll run ours.”

Never mind that Inhofe’s “shop” is fueled by millions from the oil and gas industry, he’s already trespassed on the Pope’s “shop” to make his hoax argument. In 2012, he appeared on a Christian radio program where he said, “The Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.’ My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.” He repeated the “God is still up there” line in his speech at the Climate Conference.

Inhofe also warned his audiences against “appeasers,” Republicans tempted by the money spent by people such as Republican businessman Jay Faison, who has committed $175 million to encourage them to address climate change as a reality.

“When they see how much money is there, and they see that the bureaucracy is on their side, they might be tempted to give them a vote,” said Inhofe. “This is why you have this last guy with $175 million claiming to be a Republican, and all it takes is one or two or three of the senators to say, maybe I’ll appease them.”

Not only was Inhofe honored with the opening keynote slot, he was also one of five individuals given awards by the Heartland Institute for “decades fighting the politicization and misinterpretation of climate science.” He joined three scientists—only one a climatologist—and a TV weatherman in receiving the honor.

“The Climate Change Awards were started in 2014 as a way to recognize individuals of extraordinary ability and unflagging commitment to restoring sound science and common sense to the debate over global warming,” according to the Heartland Institute. “The awards serve to increase public awareness of the global warming realism movement and send a signal to the academy and other elite institutions saying if they won’t recognize these genuine heroes, then the sponsors of these awards will. And finally, they encourage otherwise silent scientists, philanthropists, and civic and business leaders to speak up on behalf of sound science and common sense.”

Listen to Sen. Inhofe and other climate deniers speak at the Heartland Institute’s Climate Conference:

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Heartland is also getting into the movie side of show business. Its main co-sponsor in Vegas this week is the concurrent libertarian event, FreedomFest, held at Planet Hollywood. On Wednesday night, Heartland ticket-holders are invited to attend the debut the film, Atlas Shrugged 3: Where is John Galt? Fox Business host and popular climate comedian John Stossel will introduce the screening and broadcast his show from the FreedomFest floor.

Media Matters has produced brief playbill bios of Heartland's Vegas cast.

Habibullo Abdussamatov

Bob Armstrong

Ron Arnold

Tim Ball

Joe Bastardi

E. Calvin Beisner

Larry Bell

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen    

Barry Brill

Robert M. Carter

George Christensen

John Coleman

Russell Cook

Walter Cunningham

Joe D'Aleo

Harold Doiron

John Dale Dunn

Don Easterbrook

Myron Ebell

Willis Eschenbach

Peter Ferrara

Terrence Flower

Patrick Garofalo

Fred Goldberg

Stanley Goldenberg            

Steve Goreham

Laurence Gould

William Gray

Kenneth Haapala

Tom Harris

Howard Hayden

Tony Heller

Craig Idso

Jim Johnston

Olavi Karner

Richard Keen

Madhav Khandekar

David Kreutzer

William Kininmonth

Jay Lehr

Marlo Lewis

Craig Loehle

Sebastian L. Lüning

Anthony Lupo

Jennifer Marohasy

Patrick Michaels

Christopher Monckton

Patrick Moore

Marc Morano

Nils-Axel Mörner

Marita Noon

Tiffany Roberts

Norm Rogers

Hon. Dana Rohrabacher         

Craig Rucker

S. Fred Singer

Willie Soon

Roy Spencer

H. Leighton Steward

Anthony Watts

Thomas Wysmuller

Joe Bastardi

Day Job: Meteorologist at Weatherbell Analytics.

Industry Ties: The American Tradition Institute (recently re-launched as the Energy & Environment Legal Institute). Also "heavily involved" In forecasting for corporate energy clients.

Fox News Guest: "Fox regularly turns to him to analyze climate research"

Climate Expertise: Bastardi has published no articles in peer-reviewed journals on any subject. His views aresharply at odds with those of working scientists in the field. Multiple climate scientists have stated that his claims are "completely wrong," scientifically incorrect," and "nonsense."

He Said It: On Fox News in 2011, Bastardi claimed that the theory of human-induced climate change "contradicts what we call the first law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source."

Dana Rohrabacher

Day Job: Republican Congressman from California, sits on House Science Committee.

Industry Ties: Campaign contributions from Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, Marathon Petroleum, Halliburton, and Chevron.

Fox News Guest: Regular appearances on both Fox News and Foxnews.com.

Climate Expertise: None

He Said It: He has suggested that "prehistoric climate change could have been caused by 'dinosaur flatulence,'" Policy.Mic reported.

Patrick Moore

Day Job: Canadian public relations specialist; Chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute and founder of Greenspirit Strategies; frequently described as "co-founder of Greenpeace" (Greenpeace has released a statement putting this in context.)

Industry Ties: Moore has been a spokesman for fossil fuel-intensive industries for more than 20 years.

Fox News Guest: Regular appearances and frequently cited. When he told lawmakers there is no evidence man is contributing to climate change, Fox wrote about it. Many of his statements have been picked up on various Fox segments where they use his "cofounder of Greenpeace" title. In a February segment on The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson, Carlson touted "a stunning admission about climate change" from "the co-founder of Greenpeace, who says there is no scientific proof that man is contributing to climate change."

Climate Expertise: None

He Said It: "Weather is just weather, like the cold weather we're getting this year. It has not warmed for the last 17 years. We know that for sure. And that brings into question the whole hypothesis."

John Coleman

Day Job: Founder of the Weather Channel and weatherman on KUSI News.

Industry Ties: He is associated with Heartland Institute

Fox News guest: Fox picked up his 2009 article "scolding" Al Gore and have referenced him on multiple programs, including The Five and The O'Reilly Factor.

Climate Expertise: According to the Columbia Journalism Review,"Coleman had spent half a century in the trenches of TV weathercasting... But his work was more a highly technical art than a science. His degree, received fifty years earlier at the University of Illinois, was in journalism."

He said it: "I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct."

John Dale Dunn, M.D.

Day Job: Emergency doctor in Brownwood, Texas; policy advisor for the Heartland Institute and the American Council on Science and Health.  He taught environmental law at Howard Payne University in Texas.

Industry Ties: He's a policy advisor for the Heartland Institute.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "I assert that warm[ing] is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increase..."

Dr. William Kininmonth

Day Job: Retired Australian meteorologist, runs the Australasian Climate Research Institute, which is based out of Kininmonth's home.

Industry Ties: Multiple: Business Council of Australia, Heartland Institute, Fraser Institute, International Climate Science Coalition, Science and Public Policy Institute.

Climate Expertise: He has no published peer-reviewed research on climate change, aside from Energy & Environment, a journal designed to house the pseudo-academic work of climate skeptics.

He said it: "Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow."

Dr. William Gray

Day Job:  Professor of Meteorology at Colorado State University

Industry Ties:Heartland Institute "Global Warming Expert"

Fox News guest: Yes.

Climate Expertise: Specializes in tropical meteorology.

He said it: "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews."

Dr. Roy Spencer

Day Job: Research scientist at University of Alabama in Huntsville

Industry Ties: Cornwall AllianceFor the Stewardship of Creation (previously "Interfaith Stewardship Alliance"), International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP), The Heartland Institute, George C. Marshall Institute

Fox News guest: Yes.

Climate Expertise:One of the few actual climate scientists who does not recognize manmade climate change. Spencer has published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of satellite climate measurements. He's also a Creationist.

He said it: "As long as they continue to call people like me 'deniers', I will call them 'global warming Nazis.'"

James L. Johnston

Day Job: Senior Fellow for Energy and Regulatory Policy, The Heartland Institute

Industry Ties: In 1993, he retired as senior economist for Amoco, an oil company, after working there for nearly two decades. Also worked at the RAND corporation, Institute for Defense Analyses, and the Secretary's Office of the U.S. Treasury.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "For a firm facing such dangers from government-funded designs for reducing greenhouse gases, it would be prudent to support financial analysts and free-market institutions not committed to government solutions."

David Kreutzer

Day Job: Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change at The Heritage Foundation

Industry Ties: Kreutzer worked as an economist at Berman and Company, a Washington-based public affairs firm, prior to coming on board in 2008 at Heritage. For James Madison University's International Business Program, he also taught economics.

Fox News guest: Has appeared on several programs and has written op-eds.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "A decade of global cooling ... threatens to undermine the scientific foundation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

Marlo Lewis

Day Job: Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and chairman of the Cooler Heads Coalition

Industry Ties: The CEI benefits from funding from energy interests, including Koch Family Foundations, ExxonMobil, Texaco, American Petroleum Institute. He has long been on the front lines of industry's war on science.

Fox News Guest: He's written many op-eds on climate change.

Climate Expertise: None.

He said it: Lewis thinks we should just move cities that might go underwater.

Kenneth Haapala

Day Job: Vice President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project

Industry Ties: The Heartland Institute, The Science and Environmental Policy Project

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "Carbon dioxide is a necessary food for green plants, thus necessary for life on this planet as we generally recognize it."

Norman Rogers

Day Job: A "volunteer" advisor to The Heartland Institute. He runs his own website where he writes about his study of global warming as a "retirement project."

Industry Ties: The Heartland Institute

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "The few examples of coal or oil companies actually giving money to dissenters or dissenting organizations are so minor that one suspects that the gift was an accident or bureaucratic snafu."

Tom Harris

Day Job: Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, a "group of climate change skeptics that has received funding from the Heartland Institute."

Industry Ties: Director of Operations of the High Park Group, a lobbying organization for the energy industry until 2006. This has apparently been deleted from their website.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "All the companies want is to see information coming out about research that supports their side. They wouldn't have to if all sides were covered (by the media).... If we got to half a million (dollars), I'd be thrilled."

Walter Cunningham

Day Job: Retired astronaut; current lecturer and speaker.

Industry Ties: Has served as the director of a number of public and private companies, including those in the venture capital, real estate, offshore pipeline and consulting engineering industries. Exxon Mobil-affiliated Tech Central Station lists him as a roundtable member. Exxon also gave this group $95,000 in contributions since 1998 for "Climate Change Support."

Fox News guest: Has appeared on Fox talking about how NASA puts "politics over science".

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "After years of looking, I have not found one piece of empirical evidence that man-made CO2 has a significant impact on global climate."

Craig Idso

Day Job: Founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change which has the mission to "separate reality from rhetoric in the emotionally-charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global change."

Industry Ties: Heartland, Peabody Energy, and the Science and Public Policy Institute.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "Atmospheric CO2 enrichment brings growth and prosperity to man and nature alike."

Dr. Willie Soon

Day Job: astrophysicist

Industry Ties: Has received much of his research funding from the oil and gas industry. See "Researcher helps sow climate-change doubt: Industry-funded Cambridge astrophysicist adds to partisan divide".This goes into some of his Industry connections.

Climate Expertise: Many of Soon's articles are not published in peer-reviewed journals, but by organizations skeptical of climate change such as the Fraser Institute (here and here), The George C. Marshall Institute  (here), and in the skeptical science journal Energy & Environment (here). One paper that Soon authored and was published in two peer-reviewed journals received research funding from the oil lobbying group, American Petroleum Institute.

He said it: "I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic."

Dr. S. Fred Singer

Day Job: President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project

Industry Ties: The Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Heartland Institute and others. According to SourceWatch, Singer has also done consulting work for major oil companies including Texaco, Arco, Shell, Sun, Unocal, the Electric Power Institute, Florida Power and the American Gas Association. Has previously worked for the tobacco industry to debunk the "junk science" linking their products to cancer.

Fox News guest: Regularon Fox News.

Climate Expertise: One of a few climate deniers with a history of relevant work published in peer-reviewed journals.

He said it: "Let's face it. People like warmer climates."

Robert M. Carter

Day Job: Science Policy Advisor at Australia's Institute of Public Affairs, which has received funding from oil companies and whose directors sit on the boards of companies in the fossil fuel sector. He's also an "expert" at the Heartland Institute and Chief Science Advisor to the International Climate Science Coalition.

Industry Ties: See above.

Climate Expertise: A geologist by training, Carter wrote a book titled, Climate: The Counter-Consensus.

He said it: As paraphrased by the Sydney Morning Herald: "The role of peer review in scientific literature is overstressed, and whether or not a scientist had been funded by the fossil fuel industry [i]s irrelevant to the validity of research."

Ron Arnold

Day Job: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE); writes a column for the Washington Examiner.

Industry Ties: CDFE has received money from Coors Foundation, Georgia Pacific, Louisiana-Pacific, Pacific Lumber, Exxon, DuPont and others.

Fox News guest: Has appeared on numerous Fox programs.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "We want to destroy environmentalists by taking their money and their members."

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen

Day Job: Editor, Energy & Environment, which has been described as the place skeptics "go to when they are rejected by the mainstream, peer-reviewed science" journals.

Industry Ties: She is a contributing author at the Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence online portal and an advising member at The Scientific Alliance.

Fox News guest: Has been quoted in Fox articles.

Climate Expertise: None, although she describes herself as an " 'expert' on the science and politics of global warming since the late 1980s."

She said it: "To count as science, such knowledge seeking should not have ulterior motives such as growing rich and powerful, for that would lead to bias and selection. I found my niche where nature meets culture, in environmental politics and policy."

Larry Bell

Day Job: Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston, blogger at Forbes.com

Industry Ties: Heartland Institute.

Climate Expertise: None, despite writing Climate of Corruption.

He said it: "Pointing the finger at carbon dioxide as the culprit is a convenient way, of course, of vilifying carbon based fuels."

Leighton Steward

Day Job: President and Chairman of Plants Need CO2, a group founded in 2009 with the mission "to educate the public on the positive effects of additional atmospheric CO2 and help prevent the inadvertent negative impact to human, plant and animal life if we reduce CO2."

Industry Ties: He was Vice Chairman of the American oil and gas company Burlington Resources, Inc. until his retirement in 2000. DeSmogBlog reported that: "According to his profile at EOG Resources (formerlyEnron Oil and Gas Company) where he is a director, Steward has extensive experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry and has also worked with The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company as President, Chief Operating Officer and, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 1989 until its acquisition by Burlington Resources Inc. in 1997." He is also an "Honorary Director" at the American Petroleum Institute.

Fox News guest:Yes

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "CO2 is a great airborne fertilizer."

Thomas Wysmuller

Day Job: Owner of Colderside.com, "The Colder Side of Global Warming," and lecturer. His Heartland biohighlights his work as a NASA meteorologist, but he just interned there. 

Industry Ties: Heartland Institute

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "The largest contributor to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the warming oceans." (via SeaCoastOnline)

Harold (Hal) Doiron

Day Job: Retired NASA scientist

Industry Ties: "Studied methods to reduce costs of drilling for oil and gas for" the Reed Tool Company, DeSmogBlog reported.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "The physics, chemical, biological and heat transfer processes involved in Climate Change modeling and analysis are similar to large, complex systems familiar to Aerospace Engineers."

Dr. Patrick Michaels

Day Job: Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute and has taught environmental sciences professor at the University of Virginia

Industry Ties: Expert and visiting scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute, expert and senior fellow at Cato Institute, policy expert at the Heritage Foundation. Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Tech Central Station, and more In an interview with Fareed Zakaria in 2010, he estimated that 40 percent of his work is funded by the petroleum industry.

Fox News guest: He's a regular commentator on climate change issues on Fox News and other conservative news outlets. He also writes regularly for Forbes.

Climate Expertise: Michaels has published research papers in peer-reviewed climate journals. According to DeSmogBlog, "Some of Michaels's papers were published in the journal *Climate Research*  around the time that climate skeptic Chris de Freitas was serving as one of the journal's editors. Half of the journal's editors resigned over poor quality control in mid-2003. Additionally, he has published some of his papers in the journal Energy and Environment, run by fellow skeptic Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen."

He said it: "By the year 2000, plus or minus a few, the vogue environmental calamity will be an ice age. And this nouvelle apocalypse, revised version, will predict that global warming will cause sea level to fall."

Hon. George Christensen

Day Job:Member of the :{Australian:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}::{ House of Representatives:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:, representing the coal state of Queensland.

Industry Ties:Heartland Institute

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "It seems to me that before we go down the track of removing people's property rights or introducing carbon taxes in the name of stopping man-made climate change, we should really work out what the facts are. That is why I believe it is high time we had a Royal Commission to determine the scientific facts on the theory of man-made climate change."

Jay Lehr

Day Job:  Science director at The Heartland Institute and lecturer.

Industry Ties: Outside of his work for the Heartland Institute, Jay Lehr's current client list includes biotech giant Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences Canada, a division of Dow Chemical.

Fox News guest:Yes, and recently.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "The debate is over, if there ever was one." And: "Why people are so alarmed about [extreme weather], Ihave no clue."

Sebastian Luning

Day Job:Senior geologist with the oil and gas company RWE Dea in Hamburg; Co-author of Die Kalte Sonne(The Cold Sun), which argued climate change is the result of solar flares and cycles.

Industry Ties: Heartland Institute. His co-author on The Cold Sun was Fritz Vahrenholt, CEO of his energy firm.

Climate Expertise: None

Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov

Day Job: Director of Space Research the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in at St. Petersburg, Russia

Industry Ties: Russian government

Climate Expertise: None. He said it: "The Earth passed the peak of global warming in 1998-2005." Last year he predicted a "Little Ice Age" within three decades.

Dr. Howard Hayden

Day Job: Retired professor of physics, University of Connecticut. He edits The Energy Advocate, a monthly newsletter that serves as a mouthpiece for the energy and technology industries.

Industry Ties: He's spoken at multiple Heartland conferences and is one of their "experts," also a memberof the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which received more than half of $1 million in funding by ExxonMobil since since 1998.

Fox News guest: He's quoted in FoxNews articles about climate.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "A warmer world is a better world. Look at weather-related death rates in winter and in summer, and the case is overwhelming that warmer is better."

Steve Goreham

Day Job: Author, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism; executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America.

Industry Ties: Prior to the page being apparently hacked, "Goreham's profile on*Climatism.net* describes him as an engineer and business executive with extensive experience at Fortune 100 public companies and private firms," DeSmogBlog reported.

Fox News guest: Yes

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "I'm just a layperson ... I'm also a relative newcomer to the climate battle."

Marita Noon

Day Job: Executive director for both Energy Makes America Great Inc. and the Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE), a lobby group funded by New Mexico oil and gas industry interests. Prior to her work in energy, she worked as a motivational speaker and author.

Industry Ties: See above.

Climate Expertise: None

She said it: "America is poised to become the "no pee" section of the global swimming pool."

Craig Rucker

Day Job: Director for Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT, a fossil fuel-funded group.

Industry Ties: According to Greenpeace's report, Dealing In Doubt, CFACT has received over $4.1 million in funds from Donor's Trust and Donor's Capital Fund between 2002-2011, and additional $582,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998-2012.

Fox News guest: Yes

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "The Obama administration's war on coal is a disaster in the making for the U.S. economy."

Marc Morano

Day Job:Blogger at Climate Depot, a blog sponsored by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.

Industry Ties: CFACT's 2011 financial disclosure form lists Morano as the highest paid member of its staff, each year receiving a $150,000 salary. Former employee of the Media Research Center, which has received more than $400,000 from ExxonMobil.

Fox News guest: Many times.

Climate Expertise: None.

He said it: "[In] the fall of 2009, more Americans believed in haunted houses than manmade global warming, and I'm not making that up. Science wins in the end."

Joseph D'Aleo

Day Job: Executive director, International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP); colleague of Joe Bastardi at AccuWeather.

Climate Expertise: None. Co-published one article on global cooling in the non-peer review journal Energy & Environment which only 25 libraries around the world carry.

He said it: "Warming not 'global'. It is shown in satellite data to be northern hemisphere only... Warming (global mean and northern hemisphere) stopped in the 1990s."

Fred Goldberg

Day Job: Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (adjunct, but RIT has stated that he is "not currently employed.")

Industry Ties: Heartland

Climate Expertise: None, despite Goldberg being a signatory on an open letter to United Nation's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that said stopping climate change is impossible, calling it "a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages."

He said it: "It is, of course, the Sun that drives everything, and clouds aremaking problems for the Sun."

E. Calvin Beisner

Day Job: Spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation and speaker on the application of the Biblical worldview to economics, government, and environmental policy. Known as a "leading evangelical climate-change skeptic."

Industry Ties: Advisory Board member of CFACT.

Fox News guest: Yes

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: From Beisner's "Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming": "We believe Earth and its ecosystems--created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence --are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth's climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history."

Dr. Craig Loehle

Day Job: Scientist for the paper industry's National Council for Air and Stream Improvement

Industry Ties: Expert for The Heartland Institute.

Fox News guest:Cited on FoxNews.com

Climate Expertise: Several of his papers related to climate were published in the skeptic journal Energy & Environment.

He said it: "I am not part of a conspiracy and am not directed by anyone ... Only a fraction of my work concerns climate change."

Myron Ebell

Day Job: Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute

Industry Ties: The Competitive Enterprise Institute has enjoyed funding from, among others, Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Texaco, General Motors, Richard Mellon Scaife's foundations, and the Koch family foundations

Fox News guest: Yes, including his regularly featured op-ed on FoxNews.com.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "We felt that if you concede the science is settled and that there's a consensus, you cannot-- the moral high ground has been ceded to the alarmists."

Madhav Khandekar

Day Job: Meteorologist, Environment Canada (retired)

Industry Ties: An "expert" at Heartland, a member of International Climate Science Coalition

Climate Expertise: "According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Khandekar has published 19 pieces of research in peer-reviewed journals, mainly in the area of El Nino and climate. Many of his papers on climate change were published in the journal Energy and Environment, a journal which has been criticized for its peer review process and which is edited by global warming skeptic Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen," DeSmogBlog reported.

He said it: "I don't see that CO2 is inducing any climate change. CO2 may have induced a small amount of warming that we saw in the 80's and 90's but more importantly CO2 is an inert gas, it is not a pollutant."

Barry Brill

Day Job: New Zealand-based lawyer and the former Minister of Science & Technology and Minister of Energy. He is currently chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.

Industry Ties: Has served as chairman or director at Power New Zealand Ltd.,  Electricity Supply Association of NZ, Business New Zealand, Pacific Energy Corp, Petrocorp Exploration, and more fossil fuel companies.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "The official temperature record is wrong."

Dr. Jennifer Marohasy

Day Job:Adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Plant and Water Science at Central Queensland University and former senior fellow at the conservative Australian think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), and adirector of the Australian Environment Foundation.

Climate Expertise: None

She said it: From her official bio: "Jennifer Marohasy is an Australian biologist and libertarian who holds unpopular opinions on a range of important environmental issues."

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner

Day Job: Stockholm University (retired)

Climate Expertise: He appears to have written no peer-reviewed journal articles.

He said it: Mörner claims to have paranormal abilities to find land-bound water using only a dowsing rod and the power of his imagination. Also, writing in the Guardian, George Monbiot relates: "In 2007, Mörner and his collaborator, a homeopath and amateur archaeologist called Bob Lind, were reprimanded by the Scania County archaeologist in Sweden for damaging an Iron Age cemetery during their quest to demonstrate the 'Bronze Age calendar alignments,' which would somehow help to show that this local graveyard was in fact an ancient Hellenic trading centre."

Dr. Stanley Goldenberg

Day Job: Meteorologist for the Hurricane Research Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory/National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.

Industry Ties: Heartland Institute Speaker

Fox News guest: Yes, and Fox News' Brit Hume has quoted him.

Climate Expertise: Studied meteorology under fellow climate change skeptic Jim O'Brien.

He said it:"It takes guts to do and be outspoken."

Anthony Watts

Day Job: Blogger at "Watts Up With That?"; Chief meteorologist for KPAY, an AM Fox News affiliate in Chico, California

Industry Ties: Watts was paid by the Heartland Institute for his work on temperature stations and is a regular speaker at Heartland conferences.

Fox News guest: Yes, and often writes for and cited on FoxNews.com.

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable."

Dr. Laurence "Larry" Gould

Day Job: Physics professor at the University of Hartford

Industry Ties: Heartland Institute "expert" who has spoken at their conferences.

Fox News guest: Yes, with Fox appearances listed on his website.

Climate Expertise: Gould published two peer-reviewed articles in the area of physics in the 1980s. Beganpublishing articles and giving presentations on climate change in 2003.

He said it: "This is the state of science education and environmental science, and what we have really is basically aporcupine of errors."

Richard Keen

Day Job:Meteorology instructor at the University of Colorado.

Industry Ties: Regular at Heartland Institute conferences.

Climate Expertise: Has published a few climate-related articles in peer-reviewed journals.According to Keen, he has experience as a military meteorologist and has "done some climate modeling but when I was younger and less wise."

He said it: From his presentation at the ICCC7: "The Warmers 'jimmy' the data to make it agree with the models and look like it is warming."

Russell Cook

Day Job: Blogger and Contributing Editor, Environment & Climate News; writes regularly about the "smear of skeptic scientists" for Breitbart.com and RedState.

Industry Ties: He's an "expert" for Heartland

Climate Expertise: None

He said it: "No skeptic scientists ever had an opportunity to present the myriad faults in the idea of man-caused global warming."

Tim Ball

Day Job: Author, The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science, and public speaker. A former geography professor at the University of Winnipeg, he calls himself a former climatology professor.

Industry Ties: Heartland Institute; Frontier Centre for Public Policy; Friends of Science (FoS).

Fox News guest: Was featured on "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," a special Glenn Beck Program in 2007.

Climate Expertise: Has published a total of four papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and on the historical climate in Canada. He has repeatedly misstated his credentials.

He said it: "What's wrong with global warming? There are lots of positive benefits to global warming."

Robert "Bob" Armstrong

Day Job: Writes for his own website, CoSy.com, and calls himself "a bleeding heart Libertarian with particular understanding of the nonscience of the CO2 global warming fraud."

Industry Ties: Heartland

Climate Expertise: None

He said it:"The eco-Nazis are willfully, consciously guilty of Crimes against Reality."

Dr. Anthony Lupo

Day Job: Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri

Industry Ties: Has been paid by the Heartland Institute to write "skeptic" reports.

Climate Expertise: He has a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Purdue University and has written a number of articles on the subject.

He said it: "I try to keep my science independent of my politics as much as possible."

Dr. Olavi Karner

Day Job: Tartu Observatory (Estonia)

Industry Ties: A contributor to Heartland reports.

Climate Expertise: He has written a number of articles on quantifying and modeling climate time series. His work is listed here.

He said it:The IPCC model results are "not relevant for understanding the current climate system variability."

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

Day Job: Roving speaker and heredity peer. Claims to have been the former science advisor to Margaret Thatcher and claims to be a member of the House of Lords but is not and never has been.

Industry Ties: He's a contributor to the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), which is a project sponsored by Heartland. He's a Chief Policy Advisor, Science and Public Policy Institute for Heartland.

Fox News guest: A regular,he's been on and been discussed on numerous shows.

Climate Expertise:According to George Monbiot at *The Guardian*, Monckton "has a degree in classics and a diploma in journalism and, as far as I can tell, no further qualifications."

He said it: "The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing."

Dr. Don Easterbrook

Day Job: Geology Professor at Western Washington University

Industry Ties: Heartland. Emeritus 

Fox News: Regularly cited on website.

Climate Expertise: Has published climate-related articles in peer-review journals

He said it: "Global warming is over -- at least for a few decades. However, the bad news is that global cooling is even more harmful to humans than global warming, and a cause for even greater concern."

Willis Eschenbach

Day Job: Former masseuse and construction manager turned "independent" climate researcher

Industry Ties: Heartland

Climate Expertise:None

He said it: ""I'll let you in on a very dark, ugly secret -- I don't want trust in climate science to be restored."

Rep. Pat Garofalo

Day Job: Member of Minnesota House of Representatives and serves as GOP Lead on the House Energy Policy Committee.

Industry Ties: He's written for Heartland. State co-chair at ALEC, which is heavily funded by fossil-fuel interests.

Fox News guest: No, but Garofalo made headlines this March when he tweeted, "Let's be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime."

Climate Expertise: None. His only degree is in law enforcement.

He said it: "Solar is dumb."

Peter Ferrara

Day Job: Senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at the Social Security Institute; general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union at the Heartland Institute.

Industry Ties: Heartland.

Fox News guest: Regular on web and broadcast.

Climate Expertise: "While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change."

He said it: See above.

Terrence Flower

Day Job: Emeritus professor of mathematics and physics at St. Catherine University

Industry Ties: Heartland Institute; CFACT

Climate Expertise: Has a background in infared astrophysics

He said it: "There is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the earth." -- From the Global Warming Petition Project, of which Flower is a signee

Tony Heller (AKA Steve Goddard) 

Day Job: Blogger in Fort Collins, Colo., under name "Steve Goddard"

Industry Ties: Claims that he can't get any: "I have tried to obtain funding, but skeptics with money are terrified of political attacks directed by the White House and/or being targeted by the IRS."

Fox News Guest: Cited on Fox & Friendsas proof the U.S. has been cooling since the 1930s.

Climate Expertise: Zero. He has a bachelor's degree in geology from Arizona State University, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University, but he's "spent much of the past seven years studying the history of extreme weather, as well as the history and methodology behind the reported NOAA/NASA temperature record."

He said it: "My name is Tony Heller. I am a whistle blower. ... If you want to learn more about climate history, I have assembled a large collection of old newspaper articles about the weather below 350 PPM CO2. If you read through this, you will understand that lowering CO2 will not make the weather any better, or worse.'"

Tiffany Roberts

Day Job: Consultant for Republicans in the California state Senate.

Climate Expertise: None. Her background is in economics.

She said it: Once praised cap-and-trade by telling the Scientific American, "If I'm under the cap, I make more and more money. If I'm above the cap, I'm paying more and more money... [Companies] are actually able to profit from that good behavior."