TheBeastie said:
UN IPCC caught promoting falsehoods about crop production and yields.
"Environmental activist groups, bureaucrats, socialists looking to transform Western society, and biased journalists continue to make climate claims that have no basis in fact."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-famine-of-fact-at-u-n-climate-panel-11567201352
Interesting. Who wrote that?
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James Taylor is Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute.
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Heartland Institute? What's that?
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The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank founded in 1984 and based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The Institute conducts work on issues including education reform, government spending, taxation, healthcare, tobacco policy, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, information technology, and free-market environmentalism.
In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to attempt to discredit the health risks of secondhand smoke and to lobby against smoking bans. Since the 2000s, the Heartland Institute has been a leading promoter of climate change denial. It rejects the scientific consensus on climate change . . .
Oil and gas companies have contributed to the Institute, including $736,500 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005. . . .The Institute has also received funding and support from tobacco companies Philip Morris, Altria and Reynolds American, and pharmaceutical industry firms GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly.
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Sounds like Mr. Taylor is doing what his donors demand he do. As always, follow the money.
