This afternoon, Joseph Bast delivered the closing remarks to the Heartland Institute’s Seventh and final “International Conference on Climate Change.” 

The final Denial-a-Palooza was co-sponsored by dozens of organizations that have received over $67 Million from ExxonMobil, Koch, and Scaife family foundations. 

There was tension in the air at this year’s gathering in Chicago. In the past several weeks, Heartland’s “Experts” have been jumping ship in the wake of Heartland’s disastrous Unabomber billboard campaign, and some of Heartland’s conference speakers even threatened not to show up.

More worrying to Heartland has been the sudden exodus of their corporate donors. Some suggested that this was cause for Heartland to cancel the conference, but it looks like they had one last hoorah left in them. (Barely, as Joe Bast admitted today.)

The sponsors and speakers who remained part of Heartland’s Denial-a-Palooza network for this final conference are those who would choose to go down with a sinking ship rather than accept the scientific evidence of climate change driven by industrial pollution and other man-made impacts.

Below are links to DeSmogBlog’s in-depth research on both the Sponsors and Speakers of ICCC7. This list of sponsor organizations is just a taste of the additions coming soon to the DeSmogBlog Disinformation Database.

Here is our comprehensive entry for The Heartland Institute.

ICCC7 SPEAKERS

• Jerome Arnett, Jr.
• Dennis Avery
• Joe Bastardi
• Charles Battig
• Larry Bell
• Robert (Bob) Carter
• Alan Carlin
• Walter Cunningham
• Donn Dears
• Harold Doiron
• Paul Driessen
• John Droz
• John Dale Dunn
• Don Easterbrook
• Myron Ebell
• Willis Eschenbach
• Peter Ferrara
• Stanley B. Goldenberg
• Steve Goreham
• Larry Gould
• William M. Gray
• Kenneth Haapala
• Tom Harris
• Howard Hayden
• Roger Helmer
• Craig Idso
• Richard Keen
• Madhav Khandekar
• Vaclav Klaus
• Craig Loehle
• Sebastian Luning
• Anthony Lupo
• Patrick Michaels
• Christopher Monckton
• Marc Morano
• Julian Morris
• Harrison Schmitt
• Tom V. Segalstad
• Jim Sensenbrenner
• Nir J. Shaviv
• S. Fred Singer
• Willie Soon
• H. Leighton Steward
• Brian Sussman
• Anthony Watts
• Todd Wynn
• Thomas Wysmuller

ICCC7 SPONSORS

“Gold Sponsors”

• CFACT
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Leadership Institute
• Illinois Coal Association
• Ayn Rand Institute
• The Heritage Foundation
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation

“Silver Sponsors”

• Alternate Solutions Institute
• Australian Libertarian Society
• The Carbon Sense Coalition
• CIPA
• Free to  Choose Network
• The Beacon Hill Institute
• Ice Age NOW
• ICECAP
• Instituto Liberdade
• JunkScience.com
• Power For USA (See TSAugust)
• Reason Foundation
• TSAugust
• Northern Virginia Chapter of SEEE
• CO2Science (Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change)
• Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
• Frontier Centre for Public Policy
• International Climate Science Coalition  (ICSC)
• Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance
• Berlin Manhattan Institute
• Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy
• Capital Research Center (CRC)
• European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE)
• VA SEEE  (See Northern Virginia Chapter of SEEE)
• 60Plus
• The Independent Institute
• Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
• Americans for Tax Reform
• The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
• African Center for Advocacy and Human Development (ACAHD)
• Liberty Institute
• Austrian Economics Center
• www.EconomicThinking.org
• Center for Industrial Progress (CIP)
• John Locke Foundation
• Frontiers of Freedom
• Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
• Institute for Private Enterprise
• George C. Marshall Institute
• American Tradition Institute
• Institute for Liberty