Prankster Protesters Posing as Coal Profiteers Punk Climate Denial-a-Palooza

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BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND KYLA MANDEL IN PARIS

Coral Bleach, from the Billionaire United Mining Services, arrived this morning at the Heartland Institute‘s much vaunted Day of Examining Data repleat with an emerald-studed hard hat, high-viz jacket, and furs. But her excitement soon turned toย dissapointment.

The fearless champions of freedom of speech at the Chicago-based free market think tank were quick to call the security at the California Hotel in Paris – and two undercover police officers touting walky-talkies were not farย behind.

For Ms Bleach was a fraud, a prankster, a troublemaker – of the most curteous and humourous kind. Deborah Hart, 45, from Australia is co-founder of the ClimActs protest group and author of the popular children’s book on climate, Guarding Eden.

She was protesting the Heartland Institute press event with activists from the Climate Games because of concerns that the oil and tobacco funded think tank was successfully spreading disinformation about climateย science.

โ€œWe use satire because that is the most effective form of straight talking,โ€ she told DeSmog UK. โ€œThey are misleading and deceptive and well funded. They are extremely effective. They have industry behind them, and the Australian media behindย them.โ€

Extremelyย Disingenuous

She added: โ€œThis small group of people are extremely disingenuous andย evil.โ€

Jonathan Adams, 25, from Minneapolis in Minnesota, is an activist from Rising Tide North America. He attended the Heartland event briefly before being ushered out byย security.

He asked the Heartland staffers whether they really believed that 97 percent of the world’s scientists were lying about their research, and challenged whether white, older, wealthy Americans should be telling people in Africa how to run theirย countries.

โ€œWe were asked to behave. People were telling us we were being childish, that we were behaving like five-year-olds. And then we were pushedย out.โ€

Sam Castro, 45, a full time activist and mother of three from Australia was performing Greg Hunt – the โ€œminister for killingย everything.โ€

She said: โ€œThe Heartland Institute in the US work closely with the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia. There is no way they can meet in Paris without being challenged. This is our children’sย future.

โ€œThese people are producing anti-science propaganda and this is used by the Australian government to justifyย inaction.โ€

The Heartland press conference was advertised as open to the public but DeSmog UK reporters were told to leave before the event had evenย begun.

Jim Lakely, the hapless press officer, explained the ban was in place because the reporters had distributed printed materials at an earlier event inย Rome.

After the banned press and public left there were just two women in attendance prior to the eventย starting.ย 

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Wanted posters with the faces of Heartland attendeesย Myron Ebellย andย Chris Hornerย had been pasted outside theย hotel.ย 

Among those due to give presentations at the Paris event were Dr Willie Soon, who has been funded by ExxonMobil for decades; Dr S Fred Singer, the grandfather of climate denial who shilled for the tobacco industry, and Ebell from the ExxonMobil-funded Competitive Enterpriseย Institute.

Lord Christopher Monckton was also in attendance. Last week he explained his theory to DeSmog UK that Barack Obama was among a group of โ€œtotalitariansโ€ who were trying to use the UNFCCC climate talks as a mechanism to install a Communist-Fascistย State.ย 

@brendanmontague

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