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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/04/13 ... ng-expert/






no, it isnt brand new info and it may already be here somewhere, if it is i apologize

I recommend going to the link and seeing the chart. But we can't just dent folks the punch line.

Leaks show how think tank tries to shape climate teaching


Heartland is one of the loudest voices denying man-made global warming, hosting the largest international scientific conference of skeptics on climate change.


http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/s ... 53235836/1



We will also pursue additional support from the Charles G. Koch Foundation. They returned as a Heartland donor in 2011 with a contribution of $200,000. We expect to push up their level of support in 2012 and gain access to their network of philanthropists, if our focus continues to align with their interests. Other contributions will be pursued for this work, especially from corporations whose interests are threatened by climate policies.”


The focus must be kept on Heartland and their deception in trying to discredit the science of climate change. Gleick is a hero who deserves our eternal gratitude for revealing the scope of this deception.


http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-ins ... al-machine



Peter Gleick, the scientist who was responsible for acquiring and releasing information on the Heartland Institude's plan to discredit climate change science has requested a short leave of absence from his duties as President of Pacific Institute while the Institute investigates his part as a whistle blower.


Gleick makes his exit after days of ferocious debate about his tactics in exposing Heartland, a rightwing thinktank with a core mission of spreading disinformation about climate change.

There is parallel pressure being put on Heartland to come clean about its mission and its funding – specifically the influence exerted by the single anonymous donor who has given it $14m.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... tland-leak

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie guts greenhouse gas fund targeted by Koch Bros.' Americans for Prosperity



As one of its many objectives, the Koch Bros.-founded and -financed Americans for Prosperity has been out to defund the seven-year-old Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. It seems to have succeeded in New Jersey. Republican Gov. Chris Christie has just scooped up the $473,000 left in the RGGI coffers and plunked them into the general fund along with $210 million from the state's clean energy fund.

Myopia? Buffoonery? Hardly. It's a calculated effort to block clean and green energy programs as well as anything smacking of "climate change" mitigation. While Christie himself is not personally a climate-change denialist, the tea party and oil-soaked AFP most definitely fit in that category. Thus does Christie align himself with the most retrograde of his party's movers and shakers.

This is not the first time the governor has raided each fund:

"They're cutting the program to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy," said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. "When people go to buy an energy-efficient appliance, they won't be getting any rebates."


Christie conceded last May that climate change is real, but he claimed RGGI is ineffective and vowed to take the state out of the program by the end of 2012. Maria Gallucci of InsideClimate News reports:


In its three years in RGGI, New Jersey has generated more than $113 million in revenues from 14 auctions, even with Christie's diversion of millions of dollars. The proceeds helped homeowners and businesses purchase energy-efficient appliances, weatherize homes and install rooftop solar panels, resulting in $150 million in economic activity and the creation of nearly 1,800 jobs, according to a November report by Analysis Group, a Boston-based consulting firm.

A report this month by Environment New Jersey claims that scrapping RGGI would cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in future revenues. The state, at minimum, could generate more than $170 million in auction proceeds between 2012 and 2018, the report found. RGGI authorities are now reviewing the program and could move to tighten emissions requirements. If that happens, the state could bring in between $340 million and $680 million during that six-year time period, it said.


“It’s creating jobs, putting money back in our pockets, and cutting harmful air pollution.


more

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/2 ... Prosperity

But somehow in most places that you will see this story it is all about the 'shame' that has befallen Gleick and PI for the dirty trick of luring this information out of Heartland I can see the argument about the standards that should be held by an academic. But let academia wring their hands over that. The story of most import to the public at large IMO should be the information that was revealed.