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Achy Breaky Heartland Institute: May Chicago Meeting Brief

Kert Davies | Posted 05.22.2012

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The crowd assembled in Chicago this week at the 7th Heartland Denial-Palooza meeting is a who's who of individuals and organizations that have actively conspired to derail global warming policy and science for the last two decades.

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Heartland Spin-off 'Will Not Promote Climate Skepticism'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Heartland Institute's insurance research project, formerly the Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, which on Friday announc...

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Controversial Billboard Prompts Internal Rifts At Heartland

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Heartland Institute announced Friday the spin-off of its insurance research project, effective May 31. The departure comes just a we...

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The Climate Post: Keystone Pipeline Debate Reopens With Submission of New Application

Tim Profeta | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Energy, Keystone XL Pipeline, Environment, Oil, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Nuclear, Japan, Barack Obama, Heartland Institute, Solar Power, Green News

The U.S. Department of State has received a new application from TransCanada to ship crude oil via a proposed pipeline running from the Canadian border to existing infrastructure in Nebraska.

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Get Oil, Gas and Coal Off Welfare

Jigar Shah | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Gas, Koch Brothers, Oil Subsidies, Mitt Romney, Grover Norquist, Coal, Heartland Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, Green News

For this election, let's acknowledge that environmental concerns are not moving the electoral needle -- natural gas will probably not be adequately regulated until the industry destroys an acquifer. And maybe not even then.

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Donors Jump Ship On Heartland

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.09.2012

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Six days after the Heartland Institute launched an ad campaign comparing a belief in global warming to the psychology of mass murder, corporate sponso...

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Shocking New Oil Propaganda Plan to Fool Americans

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Anti-Science, American Tradition Institute, Climate Change, Cap and Trade, Heartland Institute, Wind Energy Opponents, Climate Change Deniers, Wind Energy, Green News

If anyone doubts there is a well-coordinated, well-funded assault on science in America that is designed to fool people, look no further than this plan.

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The Heartland Billboard Embarrassment and the Dangers of Ideological Ignorance

David Ropeik | Posted 05.08.2012

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It is far less an appeal to reason, and far more a campaign to preach to the choir, to circle the ideological wagons of the members of the tribe, and rally the troops around Heartland's deeply conservative and libertarian ideals.

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Last Week In Crazy

Posted 05.07.2012

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Another week, another crop of people making the news for opening their mouth (or worse) and getting attention for the regrettable things that come out...

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Enough Is Enough: Why Some Ad Campaigns Go Too Far

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Clean Energy, Climate Change, 2012 Election, Heartland Institute, Climate Change Statistics, Heartland Institute Ad, Global Warming, Politics News

What the American people want and need is a real dialogue about how we can work together to invest in clean energy. It's time we all drew a line in the sand and told the likes of the Heartland Institute to stop creating outlandish ads.

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An Open Letter to State Farm About Climate Denial

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.08.2012

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Last week, Heartland rolled out a hate-oriented billboard campaign that compared scientists, science organizations, and federal agencies who acknowledge that science suggests human behavior is warming the planet to "murderers and madmen."

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The Heartland Institute Self Destructs

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Ted Kaczynski, Fidel Castro, Global Warming, Heartland Institute, Heartland Institute Billboards, Green News

The notorious group has come out of the shadows and finally fessed up to being the kooks and fanatics that we long suspected they were.

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From the Heartland: Schoolchildren, Climate, and... Mass Murder?

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 05.07.2012

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This exposure of families and schoolchildren to the darker aspects of propaganda suggests the Heartland Institute's leadership has sunk to a juvenile bully's level of moral and ethical development.

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Heartland Institute: 'Not All Global Warming Alarmists Are Murderers' (UPDATE)

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.04.2012

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The Heartland Institute is out with what is quite possibly its most ill-considered publicity stunt to date: a poster ad campaign comparing a belief in...

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Suppose You Could Actually See Climate Change?

Carl Pope | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Ceres, Environment, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Green News

This is an image that shows the cumulative increase or decrease in the amount of water on each part of the earth's surface from 2003-2009.

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ALEC's Other 'Deadly Force' Campaign to Kill Climate Initiatives

Elliott Negin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Union of Concerned Scientists, American Legislative Exchange Council, Koch Brothers, General Motors, Center for Media and Democracy, Climate Science, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, BP America, Global Warming Deniers, DeSmog Blog, Heartland Institute, Global Warming, Green News, Politics News

With ALEC in the spotlight, what has still gone unmentioned is its longtime stealth campaign to scuttle state -- and federal -- climate change initiatives, despite the fact that a number of its corporate members publicly acknowledge that global warming is a serious problem.

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Automaker CEO: Climate Change Is Real

HuffingtonPost.com | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Forecast the Future, Heartland Institute Leaked Documents, General Motors, Chrysler, Dan Akerson, Climate Change, Ford, Heartland Institute, Daniel Souweine, Business News

After getting called out by an environmental group, General Motors has pulled support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit well-kno...

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What Made a Good Scientist Do a Bad Thing?

Brandon Brown | Posted 05.13.2012

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Dr. Gleick has admitted to presenting himself under false pretenses to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute. As a scientist, I find his recent actions indefensible, but I'm interested in the causes.

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Green Group Urges GM To Stop Funding Climate Change Deniers

The Huffington Post | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Climate Change Denial, General Motors, Global Warming, Heartland Institute, Business News

The recent disclosure that General Motors' charitable arm has funded a think tank skeptical of climate change fueled an outcry among environmentalists...

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Why Is Heartland Institute's president Joe Bast So Concerned?

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 04.30.2012

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How did Mosher and other Heartland-aligned climate denial bloggers know immediately and with such a high confidence that the whistleblower was Peter Gleick when as we see this is tricky stuff, and why is Joe Bast going to such great lengths to disavow the memo?

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Heartland Furor

J Henry Fair | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Green, Environment, Peter Gleick, Climate Change, Global Warming, Heartland Institute, Slidepollajax, Green News

Peter Gleick is a hero, and has no need to apologize. We as a society need to wake up and do something about this while there is still time.

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Email and Earth

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, Climate Change Denial, University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, Heartland Institute, Peter Gleick Heartland, Climate Science, Green News

It's a sad time for the climate. It's enough to make an iceberg melt. That's because everyone is stealing emails from everyone else.

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Making Headlines: Why We Must Find Religious Consensus On Climate Change

Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Religion, Climate Change, Religion and Science, Green Faith, Global Warming, Heartland Institute, Religion News

This month, a study revealed that divisive political leaders drive our public confusion about climate change, an unfortunate finding given the overwhelming scientific consensus about global warming.

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Heartland Institute's Climate Skeptics vs Children: Bet on the Kids

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Epa, Michelle Obama, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv, Let's Move, Children and Nature, National Wildlife Federation, Leaked Documents, Evolution, Sustainability Natives, Cynthia Figge, Heartland Institute, Global Warming, Be Out There, National Parks, Csrhub, Education News

Even if children are faced with a curriculum that demotes climate change to a scientific controversy, they will still act as-if because it's their native culture. It's built in to their screen time: the code for bad-guys is someone who smokes or doesn't recycle.

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'Green News Report' - February 21, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Rick Santorum, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Republicans, Iran, Dioxin, Peter Gleick, Drought, Dow Chemical, Israel, Toxic Water, Wisconsin, Solar Energy; Subsidies, Heartland Institute, Water Pollution, Mining, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Gas price...

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