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New Heartland poll paints a gloomy picture of American mood

People are increasingly concerned about the economy and increasingly skeptical of government and business institutions, a new Allstate-National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll released Thursday found. The annual survey focuses on the middle class. Forty-six percent see themselves as middle class,...

Heartland Wildlife Institute Works to Grow Bigger Brush Country Bucks

New Brush Country Buffet seed mix is perfect for Southern Climates Heartland Wildlife Institute, the provider of the finest complete program for deer and wildlife management is pleased to introduce “Brush Country Buffet” a new custom seed blend designed specifically for dry arid climates such as Texas and the Deep South. Brush Country Buffet is [...]Show More Summary

Test Your Soil, Not Your Patience

Improve your food plot success with Heartland Wildlife Institute’s New Soil Test Kit Heartland Wildlife Institute, the provider of the finest complete program for deer and wildlife management is pleased to introduce to their product line, a soil test kit – a critical tool to successful food plot development. Developing quality food plots can be [...]Show More Summary

Parent Trigger - False Promises, Divided Communities and Disrupted Young Lives

Thank you for this thoughtful and informative video exposing The Heartland Institute, Parent Revolution, and ALEC's corporate charter trigger law. We're hopeful that videos like this will counter the lies the trigger proponents promulgate, and that communities will resist when these outsiders? come to steal our schools. Show More Summary

Climate Denier at CPAC: Trust Me, I'm an Astronaut

Walter Cunningham—a former Apollo astronaut and Marine fighter pilot who now gives talks about climate change for the conservative Heartland Institute—can only find one piece of evidence to support the view, held by 97 percent of climate scientists, that the Earth is getting warmer. Show More Summary

How Conservatives Are Manipulating Renewable Energy Standards

This article was originally published on Climate Progress. By Tiffany Germain and Matt Kasper As the Heartland Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, continue to target states’ renewable energy standard (RES)...Show More Summary

The Loophole That’s Letting Conservatives Manipulate Renewable Energy Standards

By Tiffany Germain and Matt Kasper As the Heartland Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, continue to target states’ renewable energy standard (RES) with their model legislation — the Electricity Freedom Act — conservative lawmakers are using other unethical tactics to weaken or repeal standards. Currently, at least five states — Connecticut, [...]

Unabomber billboard on climate change taken down; Heartland Institute loses Diageo’s support

3 months agoNews : The Cutline

A billboard suggesting that those who believe in global warming are as crazy as the Unabomber was taken down less than 24 hours after it went up--but not before the group behind the ad lost another prominent backer. A quote, attributed to Ted Kaczynski, was displayed on the electronic billboard: "I still believe in global [...]

Digging for dark money

Just over a year ago, Peter Gleick, a scientist and climate-change activist, obtained a cache of internal documents from The Heartland Institute by calling the anti-regulatory think tank and claiming to be one of its board members. Even though Gleick was not a journalist, the ploy stirred up a debate about when and where the media can use...

Mark Boslough: Valentine's Day at the Heartland Institute

Scientists have long known that the Heartland Institute is a fake science organization. Now we have the documentation to prove it. It's not a think tank. It's a fake tank. Thanks for the Valentine, Heartland!

Peter Gleick vs Heartland Institute

Peter Gleick, my sbling here at scienceblogs.com (see his blog here) is famous for a lot of things, but about one year ago he went up against the Heartland Institute and in a daring effort of investigative (if avocational) journalism, revealed that right wing conservative/libertarian “think” tank’s nefarious plans to interfere with science education in…

Heartland releases the Peter Gleick legal briefing

This was presented to the US Attorney’s office by the Jones-Day legal firm on behalf of the Heartland Institute in connection with the theft of documents by Dr. Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute one year ago today. It is … Continue reading ?

The Koch Brothers' dirty attack on clean energy

4 months agoUS Politics / Liberal : BlueNC

Aided and abedded by ALEC, of course: ALEC's Electricity Freedom Act model bill was written by the Heartland Institute, a shill group made infamous for comparing those who recognize climate science to terrorists like Ted Kaczynski. Todd...Show More Summary

NY Times Environmental Desk Goes the Way of Global Warming

“What’s in worse shape””, asked the Heartland Institute’s Director of Communications, Jim Lakely, in a January 11th blog post. “The state of the Earth’s climate? Or the state of the New York Times? Global temperatures are not rising all that quickly, so the Earth is doing fine. Meanwhile, the Old Gray Lady is shutting down [...]

The Gleick effect – proving there is no bad publicity

Guest Post by Joe Bast In a December 28 post, blogger Greg Laden, a self-described “biological anthropologist and science communicator,” ranked The Heartland Institute’s efforts to expose global warming alarmism as one of the “top climate stories of 2012”. I … Continue reading ?

Pfizer Caves And Pulls Heartland Institute Support

After months of pressure and criticism, Pfizer (PFE) quietly withdrew its support from the Heartland Institute, a highly controversial group that downplays global warming and believes anti-smoking campaigns are based on junk science....Show More Summary

Heeding Public Outrage, Pfizer Drops Climate Denial And Tobacco Front Group Heartland Institute

by Brad Johnson The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (PFE) has confirmed that it will no longer support the Heartland Institute, a political advocacy group that questions the science of climate change and tobacco smoking. Forecast the Facts, which is leading the campaign calling on corporations to drop Heartland, was informed of the decision by Pfizer’s Corporate [...]

WaPo’s Juliet Eilperin retracts false Heartland claims

From the Heartland Institute, where everyone on the alarmist side of the debate automatically seems to think it is “big oil” central, until such time they have to admit to their mistakes. Washington Post Corrects Lies About Heartland Institute, Prints … Continue reading ?

Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute's 5 Most Offensive Attacks On Science and Public Health

With the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute completely discredited in the US, they are taking their climate change Denial-a-Palooza circus act over to Germany this week. The Heartland Institute has a long history of attacking conventional...Show More Summary

Denial-a-Palooza Hits Germany and DeSmog is There... Kind Of

The ultra-conservative Heartland Institute is kicking off their climate change Denial-a-Palooza gathering in Germany today. DeSmog has managed to get top billing on a major German website with an article describing the 50 shades of crazy...Show More Summary

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