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Leaked documents turn up heat on climate change denying Hearlands Institute
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Wednesday February 22, 2012 16:47 by Joe Mc joemcivor at gmail dot com
The right-wing Heartland Institute think-tank , which produces anti-scientific propaganda for climate change denial purposes , has often been criticized for its links to mining, oil and mineral extraction industries . These links would seem to have been confirmed by the publishing of documents on the Desmogblog site on February 14 that , if authentic, reveal much of the "inner workings " of Heartlands . The Heartland Institute has since its founding in 1984 been lobbying against policies that are aimed at curbing carbon emissions . The Chicago-based Institute directs regular well-funded research against scientific data whose publication might support environmentalist regulation. The right-wing Institute argues that global warming is not occurring and that warming would be beneficial if it did occur . |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4You say that this institute produces "anti-scientific propaganda" but you don't give even one example of this. This is all about attacking the institute and it's method of funding itself. It must seem to the casual reader, as it does to me, that you cannot question any of the "anti-scientific propaganda" and have instead decided to engage in an ad hominem attack.
Or ad tink-tank maybe. Ad hominem means to the person. Unless you are crediting the institution with legal personality, a bit of an unscientific extension even still.
And he does give extracts backing the post, which is about the institute, not climate science as such. To this casual scanner it seems you have an agenda of your own here.
In fact, you could be accused of an ad hominem response. The very slant of you label is personal.
That’s correct Opus .The article is about the anti-science Heartland Institute, and not the details of climate science research as such. The.Heartland Institute currently says on its website that individuals who have commented on the leaked documents without waiting for the Institute to confirm or deny their authenticity have committed civil and possibly criminal offenses for which Heartland “plans to pursue charges and collect payment for damages, including damages to our reputation”.
joe, thanks for this post. The first poster who posts about ad hominem in an ad hominem post without a trace of irony is likely the notorious poster "real scientist" in disguise. I'd just ignore him. I'd estimate the large volume of hot air he generates on this site is increasing global warming significantly! ;-)