Ah yes the heartland institute, lets see what shenanigans they've been up to.JFABNRGR said:Spend a short few minutes watching this video and it will bring very logical explanations to much of this charade.wxmanX said:
yea, whatever.
World is 1.6C above the mean, NATL highest temps ever, Gulf highest temps ever. Record warm TX, highest lows ever in Baton Rouge, Tampa, Miami, PHX this year.
Morrocco 122F, highest ever.
Greece, 119F highest ever.
Spain 118F tied highest ever.
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The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank known for its rejection of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-Streep-4][2][/url]
Founded in 1984, it worked with tobacco company Philip Morris throughout the 1990s to attempt to discredit the health risks of secondhand smoke and lobby against smoking bans.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-merchants-5][3][/url]: 233234 [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-respecting-6][4][/url] Since the 2000s, the Heartland Institute has been a leading promoter of climate change denial.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-routliege-7][5][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-8][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute[/url]
As I suspected, another comically evil think tank. Now lets see who the real culprit is.
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Oil and gas companies have contributed to the institute, including $736,500 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-wp20121124-80][76][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-nyt-skeptics-111][107][/url] Greenpeace reported that Heartland received almost $800,000 from ExxonMobil.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-smh-52][50][/url] In 2008, ExxonMobil said that it would stop funding to groups skeptical of climate change, including Heartland.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-nyt-skeptics-111][107][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-112][108][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-113][109][/url][failed verification] Joseph Bast, president of the institute, argued that ExxonMobil was simply distancing itself from Heartland out of concern for its public image.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#cite_note-nyt-skeptics-111][107][/url]