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.

Roy Cordato, "Resident scholar" at the John Locke Foundation, asks the question: "What's really going on with Arctic and Antarctic sea ice?"

The answer for Cordato and the JLF can apparently be found at the Exxon-sweet Heartland Institute, who claims that the contracting of Arctic sea ice is due to localized wind patterns and "is unrelated to global warming."

Impressive. Too bad it's only half the story.

Found this little gem of information over at the John Locke Foundation's blog advocating that we just ignore the findings of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change all together.

Excerpted from the astro-turf king himself, Steve "the junkman" Milloy's site, it appears that the climate denial crowd is fitting their bill entirely now, with what can only be labeled as total and outright denial.

A North Carolina "think" tank called the John Locke Foundation is patting itself on the back now for taking so much criticism over the last few weeks from DeSmogBlog and others.

Yes, I'm quite sure that the JLF is pleased with the search results that now appear when you query their organization on google.