Conservatives Attempt to Deny Climate Science: Doing the Bidding of Big Business

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Conservatives Attempt to Deny Climate Science: Doing the Bidding of Big Business

Heartland -- those dirty bastards:

The institute singled out one of the six documents — claiming to be a summary of efforts on the issue of global warming — as a fake.

Because Heartland was not specific about what was fake and what was real, The Associated Press attempted to verify independently key parts of separate budget and fundraising documents that were leaked.

Heartland Institute's Leaked Documents Reveal Climate Skepticism Efforts

The origins of the dirty, dastardly, documents from Heartland:
Peter H. Gleick: The Origin of the Heartland Documents

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Leaked internal documents expose some of the mechanisms a prominent 'free-market' think tank uses to discredit climate science.

Heartland's leaked documents show how climate skepticism spreads - CSMonitor.com

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In a statement released Wednesday, the Pacific Institute's board of directors said outside counsel had conducted an independent investigation that "supported what Dr. Gleick has stated publicly regarding his interaction with the Heartland Institute. This independent investigation has further confirmed and the Pacific Institute is satisfied that none of its staff knew of or was involved in any way."

President of Pacific Institute returns to post after absence - latimes.com

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and we have this: Earth may be near tipping point, scientists warn
A group of scientists warns that population growth, climate change and environmental damage are pushing Earth toward calamitous and irreversible changes.

Forty years ago, the Club of Rome think tank caused a stir when it argued that there were limits to world growth. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, now a professor of population studies at Stanford University, warned of the dangers of overpopulation in his book "The Population Bomb."

"This is what scientists saw in the '60s and '70s," said Mikael Fortelius, a professor of evolutionary paleontology at the University of Helsinki in Finland and one of the paper's authors. "We've never been quite sure when it would happen. We're there now."

Human influence on the planet has become so pervasive that some scientists have argued in recent years that Earth has entered a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene.

Earth may be near tipping point, scientists warn - latimes.com