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.
I’ve had enough of this. When is Exxon and BP and Mobil and Gulfstream Jet Co. (Al Gore’s Favourite!?), Cadillac, and BlackWater, and the US Dept. of Defense and the DC Congressional limo pool, and Boeing, and the Hollywood Lighting Company, and everyone else who benefits from the inherent organic natural qualities of mother oil going to get in the game. So they fear it’ll be a Tobacco type war but I see that they are analagous. As long as this is kept in Science realm-arena (AGW departed some time ago I know but is being dragged back into the ring) and not the corrupt litigation realm (see OJ’s jury) then there is nothing….NOTHING to fear. They can say …” well you say that because of big oil!” meanwhile, they say what they do because of “big Govt. Funding” and dominate. To me, it’s analagous to WWII. The Brits won the Battle of Britain and (with thanks in part to the Russian second front) eventually, jointly with friends, won the war. Getting the war ended and done in a lot shorter time required the might of the US. WUWT and the other band of bros has done the impossible and kept the Science in the arena and delivered some blows. Now we need big everything to push over the Pisa like AGW tower of babel. We the need big ‘quality of life’ players to marshall a D-Day and get these………_________________……….buried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(BTW—All Tobacco litigation is filed, I believe, by plaintiffs, in a small county near Chicago. Anyone know why??)
Science is the answer to all this; not litigation, but,when the Science is corrupt; we’re going to need some big power to straighten the corrupt Science, and, dismantle the down stream corrupt politic/industry!!!
We can be right, but if we don’t have a relevant forum, and we don’t have power, and we don’t have influence, and they are not forced to listen; we’ll never get rid of this evil. –IMHO
Moderator Delete it —i’ve a typo in there!!!
[Moved to spam. Robt]
And what of the funding from GreenPeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF etc: etc: ??
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Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/87xg4ts
By the way my $238 million for the World Wildlife should read $700m. Greenpeace budget for 2010 was $300m. However you look at it, it’s David V Goliath.
Good grief. Next you’ll be telling us that WUWT isn’t being funded with billions by Big Oil.
The fact is that taxpayers are forking out billions for a massive propaganda and misinformation campaign. And the consequential costs of this nonsense dwarf the direct expenditures. Where is the outrage?
Alan Clark of Dirty Oil-berta says:
March 1, 2012 at 8:42 am
“Meanwhile, the children starve and die.”
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That is also part of the plan.
Mankind must be reduced, don’t you see?
This illustration makes it clear what is meant by being GREEN.
MAN….we need to contract with HI to run the EPA PR and education programs. Look at that efficiency!!!. $$$ per effective output!!
Luckily only feeble-minded morons would be myopic enough to promote the ludicrous CAGW cause.
Joseph Bast is the greatest PR man in history and his small treasury goes so far because he’s on the side of truth and his opponents are corrupt to their core.
Amy Ridenour:
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?
As the saying goes: ‘You’re never too old to learn something stupid.’
Start here: http://www.eib.org/projects/topics/environment/index.htm
Guess I need to make a donation. 🙂
Worse yet is the fact that the govt money is OUR money, taken from us and transferred to those other entities. The Heartland Institute’s money is what we CHOOSE to spend, after we’ve already been robbed by the govt. Un-F-ING-believable! Oh well, we keep voting for these clowns, so we get what we pay for.
MarkW says:
March 1, 2012 at 8:39 am
Typhoon says:
March 1, 2012 at 8:05 am
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
~ Upton Sinclair
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Which is funny, considering the fact that Sinclair was the Michael Mann of his day.
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I usually think of him as being closer to the other Michael M, Michael Moore.
Why do all our major research organizations and professional societies support the global warming alarmism? It’s so basic. Follow the money.
@frank K. says:
March 1, 2012 at 8:09 am
“Don’t give me that do goody good [Climate Research]”
Excellent! Great song and nice use of ‘poetic license.’
Allow me to drop my 2 cents into the Jukebox…after all somebody is paying for all this ‘research’ and since money does not grow on tree’s, even in the enriched CO2 environment of today…
“Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small ( 5% is that what we get to keep?)
Be thankful I don’t take it all
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, (or carbon emissions)
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.
Don’t ask me what I want it for
If you don’t want to pay some more
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
And you’re working for no one but me.”
Thanks George for the song!
Jimbo says:
March 1, 2012 at 9:03 am
Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/87xg4ts
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Thanks Jimbo
The scare machine. [Click in image to embiggen]
No mention of the Defense Department. IIRC there have been various announcements of their Green/sustainability programs. For example, the linked article reports that the DoD “investment” in clean fuel research was $1.2 billion in 2009, almost double the amount cited above for DoE.
mods, the link is http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20110134-54/military-green-investments-could-hit-$10b-by-2030/ please add to end of my post. tia, RayG
This is a travesty. This can’t be right. Obviously the data needs to be smoothed, adjusted and corrected by a WWF volunteer on his Playstation.
A useful shovel: http://www.activistcash.com
Anybody got details of funding given to Friends of the Earth in the U.K.?
Looks like HI has no future. Is it really that bad? No one wants to support “skeptiker”?
Yup. Pure and simply, it is ALL about the money. And lots of it. Lots and lots of lovely, lovely, beautiful filthy lucre and they all want to get their dirthy grubby little hands on it.