Thread by @kegill

The infamous Heartland Institute has reportedly distributed its 2016 non-scientific report to teachers

https://twitter.com/justinhgillis/status/1027324998438940672

In 2016, @guardian debunked “Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming,” which Heartland sent to public officials.

google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…

“Not only is the consensus strong, contrarian scientists are less talented than those in the consensus. They publish less on the subject, and peer review has found the work of most high-profile contrarians to be faulty.”

Heartland’s Fred Palmer:
“It’s hard not to concede that coal hasn’t been put on Earth and other fossil fuels as part of a divine plan.”

desmogblog.com/2018/08/06/doi…

Heartland sent the report to teachers last year, too:
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blog…
#climateChangeDeniers

Reminder: Heartland Institute worked with Philip Morris to sow doubt/deny health risks of secondhand smoke and to block smoking bans [Merchants of Doubt]

In 2011, Nature
“We now have more than two decades of evidence that closing our eyes will not make the climate sceptics go away....

“it is the scientists, not the sceptics, who do most to acknowledge gaps ... and point out [data] limitations...”

nature.com/articles/47542…

“Scientists work to fill the gaps in human knowledge and to build a theory that can explain observations of the world. Climate sceptics revel in such gaps, sometimes long after they have been filled.”