A US group called the Heartland Institute will be in Munich, Germany this week holding a conference that has become known as "Denial-a-palooza" where a small group of unqualified "experts" gets together to talk about their conspiracy theory that climate change is a "hoax." This year, Heartland Institute is partnering with the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) to host the "Eighth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC8)" November 30 - December 1.

Usually Heartland holds Denial-a-palooza in the United States, but I suspect the group is taking their event overseas where the media is less likely to know the long and sordid details of Heartland's other efforts to attack conventionally accepted scientific conclusions. Not to mention Heartland's offensive Unabomber billboard campaign and a long list of other outrageous stunts. 

Perhaps the Heartland Institute is banking on the German media's failure to Google search for evidence of the group's long history of attacks on science and efforts to confuse the public about climate change and an array or other threats to public health and the planet.