This afternoon, Joseph Bast [1]delivered the closing remarks to the Heartland Institute's Seventh and final "International Conference on Climate Change [2]."
The final Denial-a-Palooza [3] was co-sponsored by dozens of organizations that have received over $67 Million from ExxonMobil, Koch, and Scaife family foundations [4].
There was tension in the air at this year's gathering in Chicago. In the past several weeks, Heartland's "Experts" have been jumping ship [5] in the wake of Heartland's disastrous Unabomber billboard campaign, and some of Heartland's conference speakers even threatened not to show up [6].
More worrying to Heartland has been the sudden exodus of their corporate donors [7]. Some suggested [8] that this was cause for Heartland to cancel the conference, but it looks like they had one last hoorah left in them. (Barely [3], as Joe Bast admitted today.)
The sponsors and speakers who remained part of Heartland's Denial-a-Palooza network for this final conference are those who would choose to go down with a sinking ship rather than accept the scientific evidence of climate change driven by industrial pollution and other man-made impacts.
Below are links to DeSmogBlog's in-depth research on both the Sponsors and Speakers of ICCC7. This list of sponsor organizations is just a taste of the additions coming soon to the DeSmogBlog Disinformation Database [9].
Here is our comprehensive entry for The Heartland Institute. [10]
ICCC7 SPEAKERS
- Jerome Arnett, Jr. [11]
- Dennis Avery [12]
- Joe Bastardi [13]
- Charles Battig [14]
- Larry Bell [15]
- Robert (Bob) Carter [16]
- Alan Carlin [17]
- Walter Cunningham [18]
- Donn Dears [19]
- Harold Doiron [20]
- Paul Driessen [21]
- John Droz [22]
- John Dale Dunn [23]
- Don Easterbrook [24]
- Myron Ebell [25]
- Willis Eschenbach [26]
- Peter Ferrara [27]
- Stanley B. Goldenberg [28]
- Steve Goreham [29]
- Larry Gould [30]
- William M. Gray [31]
- Kenneth Haapala [32]
- Tom Harris [33]
- Howard Hayden [34]
- Roger Helmer [35]
- Craig Idso [36]
- Richard Keen [37]
- Madhav Khandekar [38]
- Vaclav Klaus [39]
- Craig Loehle [40]
- Sebastian Luning [41]
- Anthony Lupo [42]
- Patrick Michaels [43]
- Christopher Monckton [44]
- Marc Morano [45]
- Julian Morris [46]
- Harrison Schmitt [47]
- Tom V. Segalstad [48]
- Jim Sensenbrenner [49]
- Nir J. Shaviv [50]
- S. Fred Singer [51]
- Willie Soon [52]
- H. Leighton Steward [53]
- Brian Sussman [54]
- Anthony Watts [55]
- Todd Wynn [56]
- Thomas Wysmuller [57]
ICCC7 SPONSORS
"Gold Sponsors"
- CFACT [58]
- Competitive Enterprise Institute [59]
- Leadership Institute [60]
- Illinois Coal Association [61]
- Ayn Rand Institute [62]
- The Heritage Foundation [63]
- Americans for Prosperity Foundation [64]
"Silver Sponsors"
- Alternate Solutions Institute [65]
- Australian Libertarian Society [66]
- The Carbon Sense Coalition [67]
- CIPA
- Free to Choose Network [68]
- The Beacon Hill Institute [69]
- Ice Age NOW [70]
- ICECAP [71]
- Instituto Liberdade [72]
- JunkScience.com [73]
- Power For USA (See TSAugust)
- Reason Foundation [74]
- TSAugust [75]
- Northern Virginia Chapter of SEEE [76]
- CO2Science (Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change) [77]
- Freedom Foundation of Minnesota [78]
- Frontier Centre for Public Policy [79]
- International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) [80]
- Australian Taxpayers' Alliance [81]
- Berlin Manhattan Institute [82]
- Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy [83]
- Capital Research Center (CRC) [84]
- European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) [85]
- VA SEEE (See Northern Virginia Chapter of SEEE)
- 60Plus [86]
- The Independent Institute [87]
- Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) [88]
- Americans for Tax Reform [89]
- The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition [90]
- African Center for Advocacy and Human Development (ACAHD) [91]
- Liberty Institute [92]
- Austrian Economics Center [93]
- www.EconomicThinking.org [94]
- Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) [95]
- John Locke Foundation [96]
- Frontiers of Freedom [97]
- Doctors for Disaster Preparedness [98]
- Institute for Private Enterprise [99]
- George C. Marshall Institute [100]
- American Tradition Institute [101]
- Institute for Liberty [102]