Denialgate refers to the release of controversial documents from the Heartland Institute, a conservative American think tank. The name is analogous to Climategate. The documents were obtained by Peter Gleick, an environmental scientist concentrating on freshwater habitats and climate change and also co-founder of the Pacific Institute, who has been one of the leading voices in modern climatology. The documents revealed Heartland's plans for their work to "debunk" climate change, including payments made to prominent "independent" climate contrarians like Fred Singer.[1] The documents include a list of personnel and board members, a proposed fundraising plan for 2012, a proposed budget for 2012, an agenda and minutes for the meeting, and a few other minor papers. In addition to the funding provided to some "independent" climate contrarians such as Anthony Watts, the papers reveal that Heartland actively solicits funding from industrial interests allied with Heartland's own stances in favor of fracking, charter schools, and deregulation of the financial industry, and in opposition to climate change mitigation and universal healthcare. The proposed budget and fundraising plan include proof that the Heartland Institute actively fabricates local "grass-roots" opposition to issues, as with their plan for "Operation Angry Badger," which would create and fund a series of small websites in Wisconsin to support the restrictions on collective bargaining by unions that were recently passed in that state. The documents also describe Heartland's work on paying David Wojick to product a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools "that casts the science as a controversy and that global warming may not be ascribed to human activity,[2] consistent with Heartland's position on global warming.
Every single MMGW propagandist is receiving payments. They are all global warming profiteers. The leader of the cause is Al Gore and he has made millions off of the hoax. Why don't you ever bring that up?
Every AAGW propagandist is also receiving payments. The only question I have is if any of those were former tobacco denialists--same tactics, they'd be well practiced.
Or are the MMGW propagandists the same people who said Obama was going to come and the fix the economy, end all wars for all times, bring in a post-racial American, and so on and so on.
As a result of the leaked documents, Democratic Representative Raul Grijalva called for an investigation of Department of the Interior administrator Indur Goklany, who may have received money from the Heartland Institute, constituting a conflict of interest.[13] Goklany is mentioned in the budget document as receiving estimated payments of $1,000 a month. Representative Ed Markey requested the original documents from the Heartland Institute to assess the effect of Heartland on science education.[14] Meanwhile, the Heartland Institute set up a website (fakegate.org), and started selling coffee mugs and t-shirts with fakegate on it. No legal action has been pursued. In late March 2012, General Motors pulled its support for the Heartland Institute, discontinuing funding,[15] in part because of petition drive after the leaked memos. AT&T also pulled their support in April.[16] Heartland's president Joe Bast pleaded, "We once again respectfully ask liberal advocacy groups such as Huffington Post, the Center for American Progress, 350.org, and Greenpeace to stop attacking scientists who question the theory of man-made global warming and corporations and foundations that are willing to fund open debate on this important public policy issue."[17] In keeping with this principled stance, later that year Heartland posted billboards comparing those who accept the scientific basis of global warming to mass murderers.
No, they would be paid industry scientists. Also like the ones who denied the harm in leaded gasoline for decades.
Is that sort of like pseudo-scientists like Al Gore and Michael Mann who are getting paid by the hoax?
Those guys are dwarfed by the clout of the energy sector. Sorry, mate, there is no comparison between Al Gore's interest and ExxonMobil's.