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us/Canadian Court Slams Trump Climate Advisor in Successful Libel Case
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Climate science denier and Trump transition team advisor Dr. Tim Ball, who a Canadian court earlier derided as incompetent, ill-intended, and apparently indifferent to the truth, has been further r...
us/Climate Denier Tim Ball: Trump Approved, But Not Credible Enough To Stand Accountable For Libel
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It was gratifying, today, to see a senior justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia denounce the professional “climate change sceptic” Dr. Tim Ball as incompetent, inattentive and, perhaps, ...
us/Judge Dismisses Libel Claim, Climate 'Sceptic' Tim Ball Not Credible Enough To Take Seriously
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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed a libel action against “climate change sceptic” Dr. Tim Ball on the basis that Ball’s writing is not sufficiently credible to inflict damage on the reputati...
us/Countertrend: Google, Economist Flee from Climate Reality
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The once-authoritative Economist news magazine has set fire to its credibility, again, by reporting that global warming has slowed to the point where one columnist argues that we should wait “a dec...
us/Do the Math! A Surprisingly Optimistic Video
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University of Lethbridge Prof Jim Byrnes weighs in with a short video with survey of numbers both frightening and reassuring. The conclusion is obvious. There's no question we can “afford” to fix t...
us/Enbridge Video Stunningly Misleading
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For compulsive watchers of Enbridge Inc., the spill-crazy pipeline company that wants to pipe tar sands crude to the Canadian West Coast - or just for students of the barefaced lie - this video can...
us/Arctic Ice Decline Much Worse Than Expected
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As the extent of Arctic sea ice declines to levels unrecorded since satellite monitoring began, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has released a new analysis that shows the situation to be wors...
us/Heartland's Joe Bast lashes out at Institute's own "friends"
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The somewhat hysterical Heartland Institute President Joe Bast has lashed out at the lengthening list of “friends” who are trying to distance themselves from the institute's increasingly embarrassi...
us/Diageo: Liquor giant backs away from science-dissembling Heartland Institute
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The London-based liquor giant Diageo has joined the companies that are criticizing or cutting off the Heartland Institute in protest over its campaigns to confuse people about climate science and t...
us/Microsoft Fail: Computer company criticizes Heartland but won't withhold future support
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Microsoft is finally taking a clearer position denouncing the Heartland Institute's irresponsible position on climate science, but the computer megacorp still won't shut the door on providing Heart...
us/Heartland Billboard: "the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists; they are murderers, tyrants, and madmen"
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The Heartland Institute's current President, Joe Bast, has launched a billboard campaign denouncing science, scientists, conscientious political activists - and by association EVERYONE else who spe...
us/Koch Brothers fund Fraser Institute
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Hats off to Alexis Stoymenoff at the Vancouver Observer for turning up evidence that the Koch Brothers have been ladling money into Canada's own climate dissembling Fraser Institute since at least ...
us/Heartland Double Standard: Institute Tried to Scam Greenpeace for Internal Documents
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A Heartland Institute front man* phoned a Greenpeace activist and lied about his identity in an effort to get her to turn over UN climate conference documents to which he had no legitimate access. ...
us/Heartland has Long History of Blowing Smoke
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One of the most bizarre reactions to the St. Valetines Day Striptease, in which the Heartland Institute was tempted by a mild-mnannered scientist to completely expose itself - its strategies, funde...
us/Fake Heartland "Scientist" Infiltrates Canadian University
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Bogus climate course “a source of embarrassment to the institution” An energy industry public relations man and lobbyist with no background in climate science has infiltrated Carleton University ...
us/Heartland Funding Disinformation Echo Chamber
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The Heartland Institute has been using its corporate funding to create an echo chamber of experts-for-hire, subsidiary think tanks and websites which all work together to rebroadcast information in...
us/Heartland: Selling Out Science in School
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Visit The Climate Reality Project for more. And read this message from 17-year-old Corey Husic to Heartland Institute CEO, Joseph Bast. Dear Mr. Bast, I'm Corey Husic, and I'm a high school...
us/What passes for a Brain Trust at Heartland?
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Has beens, also-rans, deniers-for-hire on retainer at “think tank” Update: 13th scientist disavows Heartland connection (See: Watkins at bottom of this post) The Heartland Institute maintains a s...
us/At Heartland's law firm: "Carbon Matters"
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Levenfeld Pearlstein, the law firm that has stepped up to pass on complaints about the publication of leaked Heartland Institute documents, appears to be one of the greenest in Chicago. For example...
us/Whistleblower Authenticates Heartland Documents
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Climate scientist Peter Gleick has acknowledged that he was the person who convinced the Heartland Institute to hand over the contents of its January Board package, authenticating the documents bey...

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