Industry friendly “think” tanks have been working up a sweat this week in North Carolina to derail bipartisan climate action.

The John Locke Foundation issued two press releases in the last week citing a "peer-review" hatchet-job by the Beacon Hill Institute — attacking a recent report by the North Carolina Climate Action Plan Advisory Group (NC-CAPAG) and an accompanying jobs analysis from Appalachian State University.

Recently we've been writing a lot about the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina-based "think" tank.

The reason being that they offer an excellent case study on the world of climate science misinformation and public relations spin.

A case in point today, is a headline on the JLF's blog titled: "US Senate Committee Disagreeing with Alarmist Views After Reviewing New Evidence." This would be an interesting revelation if it was true.

The other day we posted on a right-wing think tank called the John Locke Foundation (JLF) that was duped into praising a fake global warming study.

After posting the story we received a pretty quick response from the dupe himself, Roy Cordato, who's listed on the JLF website as a "vice-president for research and resident scholar." Turns out that Mr. Cordato fashions himself as somewhat of a "scholar" on the issue of climate change.

Check out this video of Cordato promoting the global cooling in the 1970's climate denier speaking point (I might have made a few slight edits)…

We'll never know whether the great empiricist John Locke would have been part of the global warming denial industry, but we can be pretty darn sure that the self-proclaimed "John Locke Foundation" (JLF) is.

The JLF is a well-heeled political organization based in North Carolina that has recently published a "North Carolina's citizen's guide to global warming" (pdf). The guide contains the usual global warming myths perpetuated ad naseum by the global warming denial echo machine; water vapor, medieval warming period etc.