The Heartland Institute is nothing more that a hired gun that spreads disinformation about global warming. HI is funded by the fossil fuel industry and other corporations that want to spew carbon pollution into the atmosphere with complete disregard to the damage it is doing. Koch enterprises stand to profit from less environmental regulations.

The Heartland Institute performed the same function for the Tobacco Industry by defending cigarette companies with claims that there was no link between smoking and cancer. HI is a truly professional organization that specializes in muddying the waters. They do not have to get the science right; they only have to prevent science from influencing policy.

I'd love to see him on the new Bill Moyers show and hear what
he has to say about the HI.

I'll bet there is a great deal more that needs to be revealed about
this "foundation."

Hopefully, what is left of real journalists in this country are
pursuing the whole story and will reveal more.
The public needs to know.

BHN

There's more press about the non-scandal than the content... he got email. He spoofed. Who cares? It's a nobody, and a nothing, trying to make hay, and apparently, they're (Heartland) also trying to make others care by making it into something of relevance.

They are exposing his email to them and painting him as the wrong doer
for falsely assuming a board member's identity in order to get them to
send him classified insider memos that revealed their agenda to spread propaganda
about climate change, launch focused and organized media attacks on teachers AND
defeat the recall of their puppet, Scott Walker.

I'm not sure who you are referring to as self-promoting.
HI?
The scientist who exposed their Rovian tactics?

I see it as HI is trying to keep the scrutiny on the scientist and divert the
public from examining the damning documents.

BHN

Nobody "institute" sends another nobody "classified" emails under an assumed identity. The emails take a political stance.

That's pretty much a non-story from the get-go, and the only reason it's in the press (that I can see) is to hype the nobodys, on both sides.

Not so sure you have done your research, which is fine,
but perhaps you should refrain from voicing your views
until you have more information about who the parties ARE
and why they are by no means, "Nobodies."

BHN

...fighting with a leader of a similarly small, equally adversarial, vanity organization....

Yeah, I don't count every random little PR and advocacy firm as "somebodies". I'm sure their egos might be insulted by that, but hey, their self image is not my problem. This is just lobbying orgs cat fighting.

You have not read up on their history- that much is clear.
Carry on.
BHN

These thread kicks are kind of meta-amusing, though.... In the "lets talk about how Paris Hilton matters" sense. They only matter because of their self-created controversy.

They're famous for making themselves famous.

Stop- you're killing me.



BHN

Oooohhh! Boogymen!

They're like the Gerge Soros for the conspiracy-minded left, only there's *TWO* of them!

...

Yeah. Still a cat fight among nobodies.

They would be better to stay in the shadows else they reveal how scummy they are.
Heartland is careless, too.

into sending the docs to the pretend "board member."

Their idea of damage control is to now point at the whistleblower
and sway public opinion against him for fooling their deranged asses.

The fact that they are doing so makes me even more interested in
researching their political and $$$ donor associations,
so what you say is true, by trying to smear the scientist, they
are bringing more attention to themselves and what they
are attempting to hide from public scrutiny.

BHN

His "'fessing up" to the dirty tricks was honorable.

Besides, Gleick is a real scientist, note his research on water quality.

When this flap is over, I hope Gleick returns to his lab bench and the public forum. He has not been discredited by this incident.