EXPOSED: The 19 Public Corporations Funding The Climate Denier Think Tank Heartland Institute

[kpete]

Larger graph here:
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/17/428111/exposed-the-19-public-corporations-funding-the-climate-denier-think-tank-heartland-institute/
MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1-15-2012-2012-Fundraising-Plan.pdf

[Lifelong Protester]

1. I swear I could not keep up

on this stuff if not for folks like you, kpete. So I want to take the time to thank you!!

[kpete]

2. why thank you

with a name like Lifelong Protester,
i am honored to share info with you

truth, truth and more truth,
if ONLY we could sift through the lies more easily?

peace to you and
Good Protesting to you too,
kpete

[Initech]

3. Why am I not surprised to see the Koch assholes on there?

I swear you could play Six Degrees Of Evil and link them and the BFEE to every thing bad thats happened since JFK's assassination.

[cachukis]

4. Pretty bizarre. I suspect many of the donors have been bamboozled.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Very interesting list of scumbuckets. nt

[Quantess]

6. Time for a kick!

[Quantess]

6. Time for a kick!

[limpyhobbler]

8. k+r, nt

[Gabi Hayes]

9. the most sickening thing about Heartland and the other so-called

''non-partisan''

''think tanks''

is that their donors get a TAX WRITEOFF for funding this garbage

[raouldukelives]

10. No self respecting 401k would be caught without them. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

11. looky here....possible good news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/17/heartland-institute-fresh-scrutiny-tax?newsfeed=true

John Mashey, a retired computer scientist and Silicon Valley executive, said he filed a complaint to the IRS this week that said Heartland's public relations and lobbying efforts violated its non-profit status.

Mashey said he sent off his audit, the product of three months' research, just a few hours before the unauthorised release of the Heartland documents.

Mashey said in a telephone interview that the complaint looked at the activities of Heartland and two other organisations that have been prominent in misinforming the public about climate change, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, run by Fred Singer, and the Centre for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, run by Craig Idso. Both men were funded by Heartland, with Idso receiving $11,600 per month and Singer $5,500 a month, according to the 2012 budget.