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Leaked Docs From Heartland Institute Cause a Stir--but Is One a Fake?
from the Atlantic
The climate blogs have been swept by quite a scoop in the past few days. An anonymous leaker
identified only as "Heartland Insider" has dumped a cache of documents on climate blogs
purporting to reveal the inner workings of the Heartland Institute, a vigorous promoter of
skepticism about anthropogenic global warming.
Over the course of a few days, details have emerged. According to Heartland, someone contacted
them pretending to be a board member, and requested that the organization "resend" their annual
meeting board package to an alternative email address. And apparently some gullible staffer
actually complied. The result is here. There are loads of juicy details about who donates what,
and who gets money from Heartland.
Predictably, climate blogs are having a field day. Much of the attention has centered around
an explosive document titled "2012 Heartland Climate Strategy," which contains stuff like their
plans for "dissuading [K-12 teachers] from teaching science."
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