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A libertarian thinktank devoted to discrediting climate change received funds and other support from major corporations including some publicly committed to social responsibility, leaked documents reveal.
The inner workings of the Heartland Institute were laid bare on Tuesday night after an "insider" emailed confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising network to DeSmogBlog, which monitors industry efforts to discredit climate science.
Much of Heartland's work to discredit climate change is funded by a single anonymous donor, the papers reveal. However, a 2012 fundraising plan also indicated that Heartland has in the past received funds from a host of major corporations for other projects – including companies that publicly support action on climate change.
Climate science attack machine took donations from major corporations | Environment | The Guardian
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In view of the recent news regarding GM contributions to the Heartland Institute, I am writing to inform GM that I will no longer be a loyal customer. Heartland's long-time campaign of anti-science distortion is a threat to this nation's security, and the planet's inhabitants. I thought you should know that your actions have consequences.
Sent to GM at this link. 'Other comment or question' option used.
Funny how papers in other countries are writing about this, but I really haven't seen much press on it here.
Diageo, the drinks company which owns Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Baileys, said its funding of Heartland was now under review.
I'll be writing to them next.
#1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:37 PM ESTFunny how papers in other countries are writing about this, but I really haven't seen much press on it here.
That's because of 2 reasons:
First, the only "sexy" document is a clumsily written fraud, and the rest of the documents are boring and vanilla.
Second, the money that Heartland receives is a mere pittance compared to what the warmist receive. If they talk too much about the sources of funding the people might get a glimpse of the "man the curtain" (green industries) that are bankrolling the warmist propaganda machine.
the only "sexy" document is a clumsily written fraud
It's now been 6 days since the leak. Heartland could easily prove that the 'Strategy' document really is a fake, simply by releasing the original email, with attachments and timestamp.
Why haven't they done that?
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They have shown that it was uploaded by a scanner, not sent by email. I told you that before. Are you trying to be disingenuous?
Heartland could easily prove the strategy document is a fake by releasing the email which they claim contained the released documents, Castor.
Everything else amounts to little more than speculation. But keep saying it's a fake. It will certainly show who needs proof, and who (when convenient) really doesn't.
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Who else would support this type of organization. All of these think tanks right or left have a political agenda. None are concerned with scientific truth.
#2 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:53 PM EST...as opposed to the Al-Gore'ian vision of a New Global Carbon Caliphate which would tithe-tax all living humans from cradle to grave for their 'carbon sins', creating a $Ts theocracy and futures trading network, controlling every aspect of our lives, putting their ayatollahs and mullahs in charge of our children's education, and the food that we eat, and the energy that we use, while disclaiming 'deniers and heretics' to some existential Twitteresque gulag, and yet...
...and yet They ALLOW continued clear-cutting, and ALLOW continued strip-mining, and ALLOW continued fracking, as long as the New Green Caliphate ayatollahs receive their blood tithe-tax every month, to be passed around like host at a wikkan festival, then handed on to third-world royals to drive campesanos off their freeland holdings, log off the old growth forest, and lease the newly consolidated lands to agribusiness for biofuels production ... which is ALREADY HAPPENING.
For such self-proclaimed 'scientists' to have, and deny, such fundamental political science outcome, is a tribute to the power of the rice bowl, the comfortable office, the outdoors job, the full pension. Men have tortured millions of innocents to death in inquisitions for far less than this ICE-CCX grift, but that is the Final Outcome, ...you can make biobank on that.
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