I’ve had a change of heart. I’ve been sent some new data, after seeing it, I’ve decided that The Heartland Institute is actually a terrible threat to science in the USA. As “Deep Throat” famously said (in the movie), “follow the money”. Well here it is, all laid out. I hope the public relations experts at DeSmog run this.
Oh, wait.
And actually, if you look at Heartland’s Gleick-grabbed budget plan, the actual numbers spent on climate programs are a fraction of that 6.5 million total budget.
No wonder our friends are so scared of Heartland, they are effective for next to nothing by comparison to US government climate programs. Thanks to Josh at cartoonsbyjosh.com for the artwork.
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Taxed Enough Already?
Can you imagine the havoc if HI spent their entire budget of clarifying climate science!
Very funny, actually, in a sad sort of way.
I’m still waiting, of course, for Big Oil to send me scads of money to tell lies and undercut the CAGW scenario. My Ford Excursion has a big, expensive tank to fill — heck, they can skip the money and just send my my own tanker full of gasoline to park in the backyard!
However, all of that money (or gasoline!) fails to show up. I’m starting to think that is is really just a myth, that CAGW deniers are secretly funded by Big Oil.
Hey, BP! Look, I’m your man! I’m easy, I can be bought! Please send me one of those preloaded BP credit cards with enough on it to keep my cars full for the next decade or so, and I’ll continue to attack bad CAGW science!
Maybe I should try threats — if you don’t send me money, I might switch sides. From Anthony’s piles up above, it should be pretty easy to divert some of the many billions being spent into my own pockets.
And all I have to do to get it is lie…
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Mr. Green and his minions continue to spend gobs of taxpayer money as they wish. But the regulations spawned by this alarmist fallacy is even worse.
The heartbreak is, that for that class of money you could have put clean water and decent drains into every cottage on the planet. Instead, it has gone into getting moonbeams from cucumbers.
I remember when the DeSmogBlog started, I would look at the things they said in amazement at the stupidity. I thought to myself that the thing would either go under or they’d wizen up a bit, even it stayed misguided. They were so obviously PR guys on assignment who didn’t have a clue.
Well, my bad. Skipped going over there for a few years until this Heartland scandal (as in, what was done to Heartland and the poor reporting of same). When I took a look recently, it hadn’t improved a bit.
How is it even possible for adults to work on something for years and not pick up at least a little knowledge? Even by accident?
What about all of the private foundation money flowing into warmist coffers?
Can we get a coffee mug “Climate Skeptics Do It Better”?
That is truly one scary schematic – all that money going to money heaven and all for absolutely nothing – and even worse none of that wasted money sticks to me.
But you are right, Heartland is clearly grossly overfunded. Otherwise organisations like it and WUWT would not be winning the argument on supposed global warming. Perhaps if the government doubled the climate research budget, that might help it compete with Heartland, WUWT etc – that’s it, we need to demand a level playing field, or those deniers will never be stopped.
I might as well try to be the first to say “it’s worse than we thought.” Admittedly, that line is getting tired.
Talk about a one-sided fight.
Add in WWF, Green Peace and all the green whatevers, plus all the props money spent by the MSM and rags like Nature, SA, etc.
This isn’t David and Goliath, it’s more like Goliath and the gnat.
Goodcash for justice equity!
Goodcash for justice equity!
*bangs bongos*
The ratio is some 100 even 1000 to 1. But ask a warmists what they think the ration is and they will tell you it is the other way around.
In other words, the difference between the true funding ratio and the warmists belief is probably of the order of 10,000 even 1,000,000 to 1.
How can people be so absolutely, completely utterly deluded as the warmists?
And, if you look at the global values it gets much worse. Anyone have EU numbers?
So why don’t the watermelons throw a little chump change to Heartland to get them to lobby for the CAGW side.
.03% oughta cover it.
Problem solved.
Amazing how those ignorant flat-earth deniers gave away secret details of their villainous donors, nefarious strategems and well-funded henchmen (like Watts) – then entrapped a Macarthur Genius and AGU ethics guru into identity theft, wire fraud and libel. Fortunately, when Dr. Gleick faces criminal and civil prosecutions for this, he can fall back on a classic defense: “the devil made me do it!”
All of those “might, may, maybe, could, possibly, extrapolated, expected, projected and probables” cost money.
It might make more sense to compare Heartland to other privately funded groups like Green Peace?
What about Greenpeace, WWF, Sierra Club, et al?
What about the myriad NGO’s, University departments, MSM outlets, etc?
The “follow the money” quote was only in the movie.
It was not said by FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, who was Deep Throat.
As for the BiG-OIL lie. Why would BIG-OIL fund us? They are all doing very well from this scam. Just five minutes on the internet and of the five companies usually meant by BIG-OIL I can easily find they all have interests in wind energy:-
BP – link
Chevron – link
ExxonMobil – link
Shell – link
Total – link
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
~ Upton Sinclair
Of course the better comparison would be with a green NGO; the Sierra Club, FOTE or Greenpeace.
But it’s still just a joke. A more interesting question is why anyone thinks the money is what brainwashes people?
For sure, if the science was settled then there’ld no need to keep an open mind but why would anyone think those who do look into a subject are persuaded by presentation and not the nature of the physical data. Yamal, the missing heat, the mispalacenment of the MWP and the fact that CO2 concentration follow global temps by 800 years are all more persuasive than a right wing pressure group who alienate many of us who aren’t right wing.
Can anyone tell me why Heartland’s funding is thought to be so effective?
Ahhh…the Climate Ca$h writ large! Excellent graphic.
I think Pink Floyd said it best…
Money (aka Climate Ca$h)
Get away
You get a good job with good pay and you’re okay
Money It’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I’ll buy me a football team
Money Well, get back
I’m all right Jack
Keep your hands off of my stack
Money It’s a hit
Don’t give me that do goody good [Climate Research]
I’m in the high-fidelity first class travelling set
I think I need a Lear jet
Money It’s a crime
Share it fairly
But don’t take a slice of my pie
Money So they say Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a raise It’s no surprise that they’re giving none away