Concensus on MMGW

[Greg Burnham]

Anthropomorphic Global Warming (recently amended to "climate change" when it was proven that the planet has cooled in the past decade) Alarmism is at its finest when those who--by their own admission, know next to nothing about the subject and who have, again by their own admission--failed to conduct sufficient research into the subject to have an informed opinion (you know who you are) chime in.

Incidentally, that a person or an institution is in error wittingly or otherwise (in your opinion) regarding subject A does not mean that that person or institution is therefore also in error regarding subject B (and/or every other subject). Poisoning the well should not be the standard upon which arguments are advanced amongst rational investigators. Labeling those who question the conclusions, criticize the methodology employed, or challenge the validity of the processes upon which the conclusions were based as: "Climate Denial Scientists" -- or referring to laypersons who challenge the IPCC's motives as: "Climate Denialists" or similar derogatory labels constitutes ad hominem.

Cabal's Heartland Institute Denies Peer-Reviewed Science

Friday, 27 September 2013

Connor Gibson Questions Heartland Institute Pres. Joe Bast.
Please click on the photo to watch the video.

Yesterday, (ALEC/Koch/AFP Cabal member) the Heritage Foundation hosted (ALEC/Koch/AFP Cabal member) The Heartland Institute's CEO Joseph Bast, along with two of Heartland's contracted climate denial scientists (Willie Soon andBob Carter), to present their new report that denies the seriousness of global warming. Greenpeace was there to ask Heartland about the report's funders, including billionaire Barre Seid, and to challenge Heartland's assertion that their work has any scientific validity (it doesn't).
Heartland's "Climate Change Reconsidered," written by the usual climate denier suspects under the guise of the "Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change" (NIPCC) is intended to undermine new scientific findings from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Despite what Joe Bast and Heartland comms director Jim Lakely claim, their false report is not peer-reviewed, a formal process conducted by editors at actual scientific journals have other qualified scientists rigorously review and critique submitted work if it is to be approved for publication.
You'll notice that Heartland's climate denial report isn't being published in any scientific journals, but rather from Heartland itself. This is because the document is a public relations tool intended to keep politicians and the public doubting that global warming is worth addressing.
While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.
Heartland doesn't care, or even recognize, that global warming is already costing the global economy $1.2 trillion dollarsand contributing to 400,000 deaths each year. They don't care that billion-dollar weather disasters, intensified by climate change, are on the rise and impacting the U.S. economy and our infrastructure. Nor do they accept repeated research indicating the overwhelming consensus among credentialed climate scientists that human fossil fuel use is the primary driver of unnatural global warmingin fact Heartland's staff have repeatedly lied to cast doubt upon that research.