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1. Jim Lakely – Heartland Institute Responds to Stolen and Fake Documents – The Heartland Institute, 15/02/2012 – http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/02/15/heartland-institute-responds-stolen-and-fake-documents
   “How did this happen? The stolen documents were obtained by an unknown person who fraudulently assumed the identity of a Heartland board member and persuaded a staff member here to “re-send” board materials to a new email address.”
   
2. Peter H. Gleick – The Origin of the Heartland Documents – The Huffington Post, 20/02/2012 – Pacific Institute – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/-the-origin-of-the-heartl_b_1289669.html
   “My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts — often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated — to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate, and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved. Nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case. I offer my personal apologies to all those affected.”
   
3. Joseph L. Bast – Joe Camel Is Innocent! – The Heartland Institute – Published online: 21/08/1996 – http://heartland.org/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/1532.pdf
   “Somebody seems to have declared open season on cigarette smokers and their suppliers. On behalf of the 25 percent of the adult population that smokes, may I offer a few words in defense of smoking? … According to both Williams and Jennings, the fact that ‘Joe Camel’ is a cartoon somehow proves that Camel’s manifacturer, R.J. Reynolds, is targeting kids. But cartoons are used to pitch scores of products that could only be of use to adults.”
   
4. Paul M. Fischer et al (1991) – Brand Logo Recognition by Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: Mickey Mouse and Old Joe the Camel – Journal of the American Medical Association 266:3145-3148 doi:10.1001/jama.1991.03470220061027 – Published online: 11/12/1991 – Department of Family Medicine, The Medical College of Georgia Augusta – http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/t/y/y/tyy43d00/Styy43d00.pdf – 5 authors
   “Very young children see, understand, and remember advertising . Given the serious health consequences of smoking, the exposure of children to environmental tobacco advertising may represent an important health risk that should be studied further.”
   
5. From: Joseph Bast To: Roy Marden – Legacy Tobacco Documents Library – 27/07/1999 – http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/jvy82i00/pdf
   “Because Heartland does many things that benefit Philip Morris’ bottom line, things that no other organization does, I hope you will consider boosting your general operating support this year to $30,000 and once again reserve a Gold Table for an additional $5,000.”
   
6. Board of Directors – Environment and Climate News – July 2008 – http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/23410.pdf
   “Board of Directors: Rajeev Bal, Joseph Bast, Robert Buford Paul Fisher, James Fitzgerald, Dan Hales William Higginson, James L. Johnston Roy E. Marden , Arthur Margulis David H. Padden, Frank Resnik Elizabeth Rose, Herbert J. Walberg Ph.D. Tom Walton.”
   
7. Craig Idso and Fred S. Singer (2009) – Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) – The Heartland Institute – June 2009 – Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change; Science and Environmental Policy Project – http://nipccreport.org/reports/2009/pdf/CCR2009FullReport.pdf – 35 authors
   “On the most important issue, the IPCC’s claim that “most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations [emphasis in the original],” NIPCC reaches the opposite conclusion— namely, that natural causes are very likely to be the dominant cause.”
   
8. John Mashey – Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax – Published online: 14/02/2012 – Pág. 36 – http://www.desmogblog.com/fake-science-fakexperts-funny-finances-free-tax
   
9. Neela Banerjee – Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms – Los Angeles Times, 16/01/2012 – http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-change-school-20120116,0,2808837.story
   “Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to teach climate change denial as a valid scientific position. South Dakota and Utah passed resolutions denying climate change. Tennessee and Oklahoma also have introduced legislation to give climate change skeptics a place in the classroom. In May, a school board in Los Alamitos, Calif., passed a measure, later rescinded, identifying climate science as a controversial topic that required special instructional oversight.”
   
10. Mitchell Anderson – The Heartland Institute’s Skeptic Handbook – Get Out the Shovel… – Desmogblog – Published online: 30/03/2009 – http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-skeptics-handbook-get-out-shovel
    “I am talking about the “Skeptic’s Handbook” that the notorious Heartland Institute is helpfully printing 150,000 copies of for distribution across the US including 850 journalists, 26,000 schools, “19,000 leaders and politicians” … It is also interesting that this latest product of the denial machine is washing over the nation less than a month after the US government released their Climate Change Literacy brochure – cosigned by 13 federal agencies and 24 educational and scientific partners.”
11. Sara Reardon (2011) – Climate Change Sparks Battles in Classroom – Science 333:688-689 doi:10.1126/science.333.6043.688 – 05/08/2011 – http://www.conservbio.missouri.edu/Forms/Science-2011-Reardon-688-9.pdf
    “Heartland Institute senior fellow James Taylor, who sent out the pamphlet, says the underlying message is that educators need “to understand that there is quite a bit that remains to be learned” about climate change. Taylor also applauds the actions of the Los Alamitos school board, saying that ‘if the science is unsettled on any topic, of course you should present all points of view.’.”
    
12. Jeff Tollefson (2011) – The Sceptic Meets his Match – Nature 475:440-441 doi:10.1038/475440a – 28/07/2011 – http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110727/pdf/475440a.pdf
    “Sitting down for a quiet moment during the conference — because of stress-related health problems, he no longer manages the entire affair — Bast temporarily lets his guard down and acknowledges his movement’s failure to win over mainstream climate scientists. More than ever, they continue to warn about the dangers of human-driven global warming and they retain credibility in the public eye. And Bast points out that the government is still writing cheques that will keep the current research system running. “We’ve won the public opinion debate, and we’ve won the political debate as well,” Bast says. “But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration.”.”
    
13. Justin Gillis and Leslie Kaufman – Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science – The New York Times – 15/02/2012 – http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/science/earth/in-heartland-institute-leak-a-plan-to-discredit-climate-teaching.html
    “A spokesman for Microsoft, another listed donor, said that the company believes that “climate change is a serious issue that demands immediate worldwide action.” The company is shown in the documents as having contributed $59,908 last year to a Heartland technology newsletter. But the Microsoft spokesman, Mark Murray, said the gift was not a cash contribution but rather the value of free software, which Microsoft gives to thousands of nonprofit groups.”
    
14. Foundation statement on Heartland Institute – Charles Koch Foundation, 15/02/2012 – http://www.charleskochfoundationfacts.org/2012/02/foundation-statement-on-heartland-institute/
    “Our giving to the Heartland Institute has been repeatedly misrepresented in recent stories by the media as reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s unfortunate that those reporting on the matter did not seek the facts as they would have found the Charles Koch Foundation provided $25,000 to the Heartland Institute in 2011 for research in healthcare, not climate change, and this was the first and only donation the Foundation made to the institute in more than a decade. The Foundation has made no further commitments of funding to Heartland,” said Tonya Mullins, director of communications for the Foundation.”
    
15. Matthew B. Crawford – The Case for Working with Your Hands – The New York Times 21/05/2009 – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html
    “In the spring [of 2001] I landed a job as executive director of a policy organization in Washington. This felt like a coup. But certain perversities became apparent as I settled into the job. It sometimes required me to reason backward, from desired conclusion to suitable premise.”
    
16. Joseph L. Bast – 2012 Fundraising Plan – The Heartland Institute – Published online: 15/01/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012)%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan_0.pdf
    “The Center for Transforming Education at The Heartland Institute produces School Reform News, leads the national effort to implement “Parent Triggers” at the state level outside California, played a major role in a Texas effort in 2012 that narrowly lost, and conducts a full-scale PR and GR campaign for “transformational” school reform … We plan to aggressively pursue donors to charter schools. Lists of such donors often are publicly available, printed in the newsletters of the schools. Charters are the “safe” kind of school choice, and supporters often contribute large amounts toward capital campaigns and scholarships. These individuals are ideal candidates to contribute to a think tank that promises to remove barriers to starting new charter schools and extending choice to other private schools.”
    
17. Joseph L. Bast – 2012 Fundraising Plan – The Heartland Institute – 15/01/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012)%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan_0.pdf
    “Hosted by Heartland specifically for Heartland donors (such as our anniversary benefit dinners or President’s Council Retreats) or for elected officials and other audiences at which Heartland development staff can make presentations and connections with donors and prospects.”
    
18. International Center for a Scientific Ecology – Sourcewatch – Published online: 04/03/2008 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Center_for_a_Scientific_Ecology
    “Some of the speeches of the seminar in Paris can be found at: http://tobaccodocuments.org/health_canada/R2283.html (some missing speeches might be here or here).”
    
19. Fred Singer reacts to Deniergate – Puckerclust – Published online: 17/02/2012 – http://puckerclust.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/fred-singer-reacts-to-deniergate/
    “Again, Fred told me where the money goes, but did not contradict the $5000 a month claim: “I haven’t seen it. And I hire students. And we advertise for students. I’ve now got a group of them visiting and reviewing papers. I can’t review all these papers. I don’t get any money.”.»
    
20. Stephen Lacey – France Bans Fracking for Shale Gas – Think Progress – Published online: 06/07/2011 – http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/06/261878/france-bans-fracking-for-shale-gas/
    “While some organizations like the IEA call this “The Golden Age of Gas,” the environmental issues around fracking have tainted the resource’s image: some communities around the U.S. are complaining of contaminated water; researchers have reported on methane leaks in water supplies and also suggested that the lifecycle GHG footprint is higher than assumed; and a recent examination of industry documents suggests that estimates of shale gas reservoirs may be over-estimated – with one analyst suggesting they were “a giant Ponzi Scheme.”.”
    
21. Joseph L. Bast – 2012 Fundraising Plan – The Heartland Institute – Published online: 15/01/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012)%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan_0.pdf
    “We will do concerted outreach to individuals in Chicago’s financial community (thanks to the location of our new office), and businesses with financial interests in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), cable and internet tax and regulation issues (with Mike Rose at ComCast), bringing new prescription drugs to market, and P&C insurance issues. Heartland has been one of the most outspoken defenders of fracking in the U.S., using
    Environment & Climate News, its Web sites, and its PR and GR operations to comment repeated on the issue and reach large audiences. We have not, however, yet attempted to raise funds from businesses with a financial interest in fracking. In 2012 we intend to correct that oversight and approach dozens of companies and trade associations that are actively seeking allies in this battle. The budget for this project consists almost entirely of current budgeted expenditures on research, PR, and GR.”
    
22. Union of Concerned Scientists (2007) – Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air. How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science – Union of Concerned Scientists – http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=GlobalClimateScienceTeam#GlobalClimateScienceTeam
    “ExxonMobil helps create the Global Climate Science Team (GCST), a small task force that is charged with discrediting the scientific consensus opinion that greenhouse gases are warming the planet. Members of the task force include ExxonMobil’s senior environmental lobbyist, Randy Randol; the American Petroleum Institute’s public relations representative, Joe Walker; and Steven Milloy, who heads a nonprofit organization called the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.”
    
23. H. Leighton Steward – Plants Need CO2 – http://plantsneedco2.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
    “Our mission is to educate the public on the positive effects of additional atmospheric CO2 and help prevent the inadvertent negative impact to human, plant and animal life if we reduce CO2.”
    
24. Steven Mufson – New Groups Revive the Debate Over Causes of Climate Change – The Washington Post , 25/09/2009 – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404797.html
    “Steward has joined forces with Corbin J. Robertson Jr., chief executive of and leading shareholder in Natural Resource Partners, a Houston-based owner of coal resources that lets other companies mine in return for royalties. Its revenues were $291 million in 2008. They have formed two groups — CO2 Is Green designated for advocacy and Plants Need CO2 for education — with about $1 million. Plants Need CO2 has applied for 501(c)(3) tax status, so that contributions would qualify as charitable donations, said Natural Resource Partners general counsel Wyatt L. Hogan, who also serves on the group’s board.”
    
25. Gleason Family Foundation – Schools Matter, 06/01/2011 – http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/01/media-bullpen-gleason-family-foundation.html
    “For interested readers, here’s a list of the edu-advocacy orgs they’ve supported over the years::Alliance for School Choice; American Enterprise Institute; BAEO; Cato Institute; Center for Education Reform; Center for Union Facts; Coalition for Educational Freedom; Heartland Institute; Heritage Foundation; Institute for Justice (libertarian); Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Milton and Rose Friedman; Foundation NCTQ; Pacific Research Institute; Philanthropy Roundtable; School Choice Conference ($305,002 in 2006 – Cabo San Lucas, Mexico); School Choice Wisconsin.”
    
26. Joseph L. Bast – 2012 Fundraising Plan – The Heartland Institute – Published online: 15/01/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012)%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan_0.pdf
    “Of the many different audiences he thought libertarians should reach, young people – college students in particular – were very high on Dave’s list. And of the ways to reach young people, one-on-one conversation – in small group meetings using the Socratic method or in mentor relationships – was highest … Twelve Socratic discussions over the course of the internship with Heartland senior staff, senior fellows, and board members around the same table that was in Dave’s office for some 30 years. Readings could be by Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, Friedman, etc., perhaps taken from The Libertarian Reader edited by David Boaz, or the reading list for Cato University, or readings that Dave helped prepare for a Liberty Fund seminar Heartland organized some 20 years ago. Final sessions could be more policy-oriented and based on Heartland’s The Patriot’s Toolbox.”
    
27. Socratic method – Wikipedia, 10/02/2012 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
    “The Socratic method is a negative method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions. The Socratic method searches for general, commonly held truths that shape opinion, and scrutinizes them to determine their consistency with other beliefs … The employment of the Socratic method has some uniform features but can also be heavily influenced by the temperament of the teacher.”
28. Maxwell T. Boykoff and Jules M. Boykoff (2004) – Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press – Global Environmental Change 14:125-136 doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2003.10.001 – Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz; Department of Government, American University – http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/publications/downloads/boykoff04-gec.pdf
    “Even though the IPCC has strongly posited that anthropogenic activities have had a ‘discernible’ effect on the global climate (IPCC, 1996), urgent, mandatory action has not been taken. The central messages in the generally agreed-upon scientific discourse have therefore not been proliferated by the mass media into the popular arena. The failed discursive translation between the scientific community and popular, mass-mediatized discourse is not random; rather the mis-translation is systematic and occurs for perfectly logical reasons rooted in journalistic norms, and values.”
    
29. Joseph Bast – The Heartland Institute Sends Legal Notices to Publishers of Faked and Stolen Documents – Heartland Institute – Accedido el 19/02/2012, no active en 21/02/2012 – http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/02/19/heartland-institute-sends-legal-notices-publishers-faked-and-stolen-docume
    “We have resorted in the past to legal means only in a very few cases involving outright fraud and defamation. The current situation clearly fits that description, and our legal counsel has advised that the first step in defending ourselves should be to ask the blogs to take down the stolen and forged documents.”
    
30. Greg Laden – I just got an email from the Heartland Institute about the «HeartlandGate» documents – Greg Laden’s Blog, 19/01/2012 – http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/i_just_got_an_email_from_the_h.php
    “Furthermore, Heartland views the malicious and fraudulent manner in which the documents were obtained and/or thereafter disseminated, as well as the repeated blogs about them, as providing the basis for civil actions against those who obtained and/or disseminated them and blogged about them. Heartland fully intends to pursue all possible actionable civil remedies to the fullest extent of the law.”
    
31. Los Careaga – Los alarmistas del clima señalan el dinero … y se llevan un bofetón – PlazaMoyua, 15/02/2012 – http://plazamoyua.com/2012/02/15/los-alarmistas-del-clima-senalan-el-dinero-y-se-llevan-un-bofeton/
    “Alucinante la que están montando. Porque el resultado es que el pequeño David de menos de 10 millones de dólares se las tiene tiesas al gran ejército de gigantes que cuentan, cada uno, su presupuesto por centenares de millones. Y a la pasta pública, que los cuenta por millares de millones.”
    
32. Lois Careaga – Científico ecologista confiesa su engaño. Peter Gleick. Y El Mundo con el culo al aire – Plaza Moyua, 21/02/2012 – http://plazamoyua.com/2012/02/21/cientifico-ecologista-confiesa-su-engano-peter-gleick-y-el-mundo-con-el-culo-al-aire/
    “Porque comprar El Mundo debe ser como ir al cine, y te que encuentres con que la película son los anuncios publicitarios, apenas disimulados.”