Libertarian thinktank keeps prominent sceptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from carbon industry, papers suggest
The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising networks.
DeSmogBlog, which broke the story, said it had received the confidential documents from an "insider" at the Heartland Institute, which is based in Chicago. The blog monitors industry efforts to discredit climate science.
The scheme includes spending $100,000 for spreading the message in K-12 schools that "the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain - two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science", the documents said.
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Again; climate has been changing since the beginning of time. get it???? case closed...
ReplyDeleteNowhere near the amount of money and resources being spent by governments to indoctrinate children in schools that AGW is an imminent global disaster, unless we immediately invest in expensive and ineffecient alternative energy.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't even come close to "...hide the decline."