This post on Illinois Review drew my attention today: “Do nothing,” global warming skeptics say.
The blurb is is related to the the U.N. Climate Change Conference going on in Bali, Indonesia this week and the Chicago-based Heartland Institute’s attempts to nose its way into the news surrounding the conference by claiming that the U.N. is trying to silence it’s panel of “dissenting scientists”.
The Heartland Institute is a self-described “nonprofit research and education organization”. Its mission, according to the website is to “discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies”. Based on that alone, we know that it is not a scientific organization. This is a marketing/lobbying organization.
