Update May 7: Rep. Sensenbrenner says he will speak at Denial-a-Palooza after all because Heartland pulled its billboard, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Although not likely to be the last, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) became the first speaker to distance himself from Heartland Institute's outrageous billboard stunt today, telling the Washington Post that he will no longer attend Heartland's forthcoming denier conference in Chicago, a.k.a. Denial-a-Palooza.
Washington Post's Greg Sargent reports in his The Plum Line blog:
GOP Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, a leading climate “skeptic,” will be pulling out of an upcoming conference sponsored by the group where he was supposed to speak.
Rep. Sensenbrenner's spokesman did leave the door open for him to attend if Heartland pulls the campaign (it has), but it would be difficult for any politician - even the leading sponsor of the Patriot Act - to continue associating with Heartland's extremist behavior.
Stay tuned for other defections as the insanity of Heartland's stunt - and its failure to apologize even though it decided to discontinue the billboards after only 24 hours - reverberates around the world.
More important than seeing the invited speakers bail on Heartland, expect to see some more of the corporations, including the 19 public companies, who have recently funded this denial shop jump off its sinking ship in the coming days.
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
So just in case anyone wasn’t sure, a major study of almost 12,000 scientific papers on global warming between 1991 and 2011 finds less than one per cent disagree that humans are the main cause.
Published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the study led by John Cook, the Australia-based founder of Skeptical Science, confirms the debate about the causes of global warming had all but vanished in the scientific literature by the early 1990s. ...
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Let's
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They have committed suicide
When people finally catch their breath at the incredible lapse of judgement this represents, they will start laughing. And when people start to laugh, it's all over. I hope Tom Harris has a hobby . . .
Very disappointed!!
I came here expecting to see a FLOOD of anti-Heartland articles and there are only three of them. Only 3 articles??!??!!
You guys are going to have to do MUCH better than that or I'll find some new place to troll.
Chas.
Oh really?
Chill, Chas! Not everybody has the Koch brothers plumping up their payroll. DSB has been calling the Heartland to account for YEARS and has been in the front lines exposing their antics.
"I came here expecting to see
"I came here expecting to see a FLOOD of anti-Heartland articles and there are only three of them. Only 3 articles??!??!!"
I know, there should be more I agree. Remember when you and Lara used to say we will not be discussing Heartland in a few weeks? Its all blown over? Phew, glad it hadn't.
Glad we are still talking about Heartland. Even after they board up the windows.
Billboard Last Gasp
They have jumped the shark*.
Next they'll perhaps explain the billboard was put up by a low-level junior temporary summer intern aide and removed as soon as senior staff became aware.
*see the waning days of Happy Days if you don't know this metaphor. Thx to my son-in-law for explaining.
That sounds right.
Heartland Jumps The Shark!
When you think about that with Michael Mann's Ted Talk, and the fact that attacking scientists tacitly implies they haven't got any facts (science) on their side.
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxPSU-Michael-Mann-A-Look-Int
The Republican's had driven the issue to the point that they party is becoming utterly antiscience.
Actually... if you look in wayback you'll notice that Heartland also used to believe that Michael Crichton was right and that Eco Ninja's were driving the whole 'movement'. Yup... Michael Mann in a Ninja suit! heeeeya! (Hmmm... if that were the case, Bast would be dead. *sigh*)
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