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Climate Change "Deniers" Deny Denial Of Climate Change

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:25:54 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Interesting quotes from the supposed "deniers" at the clipped site.

Clip Source: www.desmogblog.com

Dozens of scientists are demanding that their names be removed from a widely distributed Heartland Institute article entitled 500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares.

The article, by Hudson Institute director and Heartland "Senior Fellow" Dennis T. Avery (inset), purports to list scientists whose work contradicts the overwhelming scientific agreement that human-induced climate change is endangering the world as we know it.

DeSmogBlog manager Kevin Grandia emailed 122 of the scientists yesterday afternoon, calling their attention to the list. So far - in less than 24 hours - three dozen of those scientists had responded in outrage, denying that their research supports Avery's conclusions and demanding that their names be removed.

UPDATE: we have received notes now from 45 outraged scientists whose names appear on the list of 500. We've published more quotes here.

Things Whites Can Say That Blacks Can't II

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:36:31 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Last Friday, Alexandra Liddy Bourne, Vice President for Policy and Strategy at the global warming denier group Heartland Institute, spoke to the Heritage Foundation. She warned that state-led climate legislation unfairly burdened the South and would lead to “another Civil War here in a short period of time”:

So yet again, the South has to pay on its back the cost of using coal in this country to the northern states. We’re going to have another Civil War here in a short period of time, because the cost is going to go up. So the Southeast has not bought into this because they understand that they’re going to have to pay a very high price. Maryland has decided to sort of stay out of it because they have coal, as is Pennsylvania. They don’t necessarily want to pay Yankee taxes, right?

Tags: heartland institute, hypocrisy, race

Natural Forces, Not Man, Causing Global Warming...

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:41:10 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: Most people know this.

Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

Natural Forces, Not Man, Causing Global Warming, Scientist Says

Natural forces, not human activity, are primarily responsible for any global warming taking place, prominent atmospheric and space physicist Fred Singer declared Monday at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

the preponderance of scientific evidence about natural forces causing global warming is so great that the issue is settled,

"The science is settled in the sense that we have evidence that most of the climate change taking place today is caused by natural forces and not by human activity," Singer

Since natural variability is responsible for climate change, it logically follows that warming and cooling periods are unstoppable and that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant,

Tags: global warming, politics

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:14:32 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The Heartland Institute produces five monthly publications on budget and tax issues, environment and climate, health care reform, information technology and telecommunications, and school reform. It also publishes policy studies and books, hosts conferences and other events, supports 12 senior fellows, and maintains two Web sites (www.heartland.org and www.globalwarmingheartland.org) and a blog (www.fromtheheartland.org). Click here for an overview of these programs.

Activities of The Heartland Institute are overseen by a 15-member Board of Directors, which meets quarterly. The full-time staff works with editors and Senior Fellows, including Dr. Richard Dolinar (health care), Dr. Jay Lehr (environment), Maureen Martin (legal affairs), John Rutledge (technology and economy), and Brian Wesbury (taxes and economy).

Clip Source: www.heartland.org

Heartland's mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.

The Heartland Institute produces five monthly publications on budget and tax issues, environment and climate, health care reform, information technology and telecommunications, and school reform. It also publishes policy studies and books, hosts conferences and other events, supports 12 senior fellows, and maintains two Web sites (www.heartland.org and www.globalwarmingheartland.org) and a blog (www.fromtheheartland.org). Click here for an overview of these programs.

Tags: free-market solutions, market based approaches, environmental protection, privatization of public services, deregulation, property rights, markets

Oil and Tobacco pay for anti-climate change conference

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:53:46 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Ho ho ho! Here's the "cigarettes don't hurt you" crowd with a new hobby horse and a new ally. Laughable and pathetic.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

The first international conference designed to question the scientific consensus on climate change is being sponsored by a right-wing American think-tank which receives money from the oil industry.

The same group has tried to undermine the link between passive smoking and health problems and has accepted donations from a major tobacco company.

The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York appears to be a conventional exchange of ideas on the science of global warming. Yet it is organised by the Heartland Institute of Chicago, which has opposed much of the science of climate change and passive smoking.

Exxon, the oil giant, and Philip Morris, the tobacco company, have both donated money to it

“Global Warming Censored”

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:10:32 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The conference is being run by the Heartland Institute. The Business & Media Institute is one of several co-sponsors and will be reporting from the event. BMI will also be hosting a panel discussion on the media’s involvement in advancing alarmism.

Those who challenge the popular theories that humans are causing global warming or that climate change will lead to catastrophic events are often ignored by the media or branded as “skeptics,” “cynics” or “deniers.”

The media have been eager to report on climate change throughout modern history, alternating between the imminent threat of global cooling and global warming in the past century. The recent trend in media-driven global warming alarmism has seen the media glorifying crusaders like former Vice President Al Gore while vilifying -- or ignoring -- scientists and others who don’t buy into the hype.

Clip Source: www.businessandmedia.org

Some of the findings of “Global Warming Censored:”

Global warming proponents overwhelmingly outnumbered dissenters in coverage of the issue in the last half of 2007, and the media often turned to non-experts for “expert” opinions on complex scientific issues.

Proposals to address global warming -- everything from mandating the use of more efficient light bulbs to putting caps on carbon emissions -- will affect Americans’ personal finances as well as the business that support the economy, but the media largely ignore the costs.

The Heartland Institute conference will address the “one-sided” debate that is “dominated by government scientists and government organizations agenda-driven to find data that suggest a human impact on climate and to call for immediate government action, if only to fund their own continued research.”

More information about the conference is available at The Heartland Institute's Web site.

Tags: media bias, sceptics, censored, co2 caps, "experts", the heartland institute, businessandmedia.org

Researchers Closer To Solving Disappearing Bee Mystery

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:11:26 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food Issues and senior fellow of the Hudson Institute said, "Of course, blaming pesticides has been the standard political tactic of the environmental movement since Rachel Carson wrongly blamed DDT for thinning the egg shells of eagles 40 years ago.

"Again, the activists blamed before they knew the answer," Avery continued. "That's their tactic: Find a problem, blame it on something they want to get rid of, and put that perception into the public mind before anyone has time to do real science on the real problems.

Bees play an integral role in the world food supply, providing pollination for 90 fruit and vegetable crops that in the United States alone generate $14 billion in annual revenue for U.S. farmers. The almond crop in California, for example, requires and cannot survive without bee pollination.

Clip Source: www.heartland.org

Pesticides are not to blame, scientists find
Written By: John Dale Dunn
Published In: Environment News
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
Publisher: The Heartland Institute

Beekeepers exchanged stories of CCD decimating their hives, and scientists assured beekeepers that finding the cause of CCD is a top priority.

Best of all, before the conference was held a team of scientists led by researchers at Penn State University reported the search for the cause of CCD may be over. They have linked Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) to the vast majority of destroyed hives.

Nearly All Had Virus

Scientists from Penn State University, Columbia University, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, and the University of Arizona now think they have found the most likely cause of the colony collapse disorder in IAPV.

Environmental Myth Exposed

"Environmental activists have recently claimed that the mysterious decline in honeybee populations was due to pesticides,"

Tags: colony collapse disorder, beekeepers, israeli acute paralysis virus (iapv)

How to control media coverage

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:02:55 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: newsbusters.org

Want more proof of just how biased the United Nations is?

A group of reporters representing the conservative newspaper Environment & Climate News were refused press credentials to attend the U.N.'s climate change meeting in Bali this week.

statement

As the first goals of the Kyoto Protocol are about to expire, the United Nations is preparing a "Conference of the Parties," the highest decision-making authority.

But the event lost any claim of impartiality when organizers rejected attempts by representatives of Environment & Climate News to receive press accreditation for the conference.

Environment & Climate News has been in continual publication for 10 years; is sent to more than 75,000 elected officials, opinion leaders, and environmental professionals in the United States; and is one of five newspapers published the by 23-year-old Heartland Institute.

I guess only reporters that buy into the global warming myth are considered accredited.

Tags: un, united nations, global warming, climate change, science, politics, media, censorship

The Coming Death of Newspapers

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:05:19 GMT

clipped by: book-mole
clipper's remarks: I do not read newspapers these days. I read the on line version, not the paper one. This article doesn't seem to take that into account. Still, the full thing is interesting,

Clip Source: www.heartland.org

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

U.S. newspapers have a life-or-death interest in schoolchildren being taught how to read and becoming motivated to read regularly.

The trends are not encouraging—for literacy or for newspapers. National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores for fourth-graders have not budged off dreadful over the past decade. Poor and minority children have fallen even further behind, despite a federal expenditure of $125 billion over 25 years that was supposed to narrow the gap.

Among 18 industrialized nations, OECD found, the United States ranked dead last in the literacy of 16- to 25-year-old high school graduates who did not go on to further study. Six in 10 of the high school graduates read below a level considered minimally necessary to cope with “the complex demands of modern life.”

Tags: literacy, newpapers, modern trends

Global Warming Theories Fizzle, New Studies Show

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:19:47 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: "Discrediting" the "alarmists".

Clip Source: www.tylerpaper.com

Claims of alarming changes in nature because of global warming are being discredited.

Results of two new studies of historical hurricane patterns add to a growing body of research that discredits global warming alarmism, said James M. Taylor, an environmental policy senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.

While all newly conceived predictions of some catastrophic result due to the effects of global warming get widespread attention, sound scientific study conclusively refuting almost every one of the scares goes almost unnoticed, he added.

One example cited is a well-publicized report of the World Wildlife Fund on March 14, 2005, claiming "Himalayan glaciers are among the fastest retreating glaciers globally due to the effects of global warming." Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported: "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists

Tags: environment, i-climate change, i-scepticism

Shwartz on How More Produces Less in Iraq

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:59:14 GMT

clipped by: frenchcanmonkey
clipper's remarks: The article is in the second portion of the web page. He has another "Myth of More" in the article proper. He offers some food for thought.

Clip Source: www.tomdispatch.com

The Myth of More

Among the most commonly heard cries for more are the calls for more Iraqi troops to replace overstrained American combat forces; or more American advisers to insure the capability and growth of Iraqi combat units; or more American troops assigned to Baghdad to win back the streets of the Iraqi capital; or more marines in al-Anbar Province to quell the rising tide of violence in that heartland of the Sunni insurgency; or more Congressional oversight to ensure that the administration is following a constructive course in the Middle East.

Fallacy #1: Once More Iraqi Troops are Trained, Both the Insurgency and the American Presence Will Decline

Let's review this paradox. In a time when the Brookings Institute reported that Iraqi military strength increased by slightly less than 90,000 troops and American troops remained steady at 140,000, the insurgency dramatically increased in intensity. More actually seemed to work in favor of the insurgents. Why didn't a larger presence result in a greater suppression of insurgent violence for longer periods of time?

Solving this paradox requires understanding the fundamental horror of Bush administration policy in Iraq: American troops are not quelling violence; they are creating it. Instead of entering a violent city and restoring order, they enter a relatively peaceful city and create violence. The accurate portrait of this situation -- as described, for instance, by Nir Rosen in his book In the Belly of the Green Bird, is that the most hostile anti-American cities like Tal Afar and Ramadi have generally been reasonably peaceful when U.S. troops are not there. They are ruled by local leaders in league with local guerilla fighters. The insurgents -- most often organized into armed militias -- provide policing functions, as well as enforcing the (usually fundamentalist) religious laws that are currently dominant in both Sunni and Shia areas of Iraq.

Tags: war on terror, politics, media