The Heartland Institute

Background
Stance on Climate Change
Funding
Key People
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Related Organizations
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kBackground

The Heartland Institute is a Chicago-based free market think tank and 501(c)(3) charity that has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change. The Heartland Institute has received at least $676,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998 but no longer discloses its funding sources. The Union of Concerned Scientists found (PDF) that “Nearly 40% of the total funds that the Heartland Institute has received from ExxonMobil since 1998 were specifically designated for climate change projects.” [1]

David Padden founded The Heartland Institute in 1984 and served as its Chairman between 1984 and 1995, co-chairing with Joseph Bast. Padden was also one of the original members of the Board of Directors of the Cato Institute. Padden, a Chicago, IL-based investment banker and then owner of Padden & Company, passed away in October 2011. [13]

Padden also served on the original Board of Directors of another organization founded that year, Citizens for a Sound Economy, which later split into two groups, FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity (AFP). The Cato Institute and both of these organizations received their initial seed money from Koch Industries. [14]

According to a July 2011 Nature editorial,

“Despite criticizing climate scientists for being overconfident about their data, models and theories, the Heartland Institute proclaims a conspicuous confidence in single studies and grand interpretations… . makes many bold assertions that are often questionable or misleading. … Many climate skeptics seem to review scientific data and studies not as scientists but as attorneys, magnifying doubts and treating incomplete explanations as falsehoods rather than signs of progress towards the truth. … The Heartland Institute and its ilk are not trying to build a theory of anything. They have set the bar much lower, and are happy muddying the waters.” [15]

Murray Energy Funding

Murray Energy bankruptcy filings in 2019 revealed the Heartland Institute received $130,000 from the energy company owned by climate change denier Robert Murray. The filings revealed a wide range of creditors with deep ties to climate change denial including the International Climate Science Coalition, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Government Accountability & Oversight. Robert Murray was known for being a major Trump donor, and giving officials a wish list of proposed actions to help the coal industry. See related reporting from The Intercept, Energy and Environment News, and The New York Times. [254], [255], [256]

Other groups funded by Murray Energy include FreedomWorks, the Cato Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and Judicial Watch. As The New York Times noted, Murray continued to fund climate change denial even as his company was going bankrupt.

2012 Heartland Document Leak

In 2012, leaked documents revealed some of the Heartland Institute's initiatives and climate change strategy including a tailored high school curriculum. As reported at the New York Times, (“Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science”) the Heartland Institute would have help from the Charles G. Koch Foundation to “cast doubt on the scientific finding that fossil fuel emissions endanger the long-term welfare of the planet.”

The documents also discussed “Operation Angry Badger,” which the New York Times described as “a plan to spend $612,000 to influence the outcome of recall elections and related fights … in Wisconsin over the role of public-sector unions.” [2], [3]

Heartland has promoted itself using a partial quote from The Economist that describes Heartland as “the world's most prominent think-tank promoting scepticism about man-made climate change.” However, the full paragraph in The Economist's 2012 article provides a more complete picture: “The Heartland Institute, the world's most prominent think-tank promoting scepticism about man-made climate change, is getting a lot of heat.”

Heartland lost an estimated $825,000 in expected donations, a number of directors and almost its entire branch in Washington, DC shortly after putting up a billboard comparing those who believed in man-made global warming to the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. At its annual meeting in Chicago, the institute's president, Joseph Bast, said Heartland had 'discovered who our real friends are.' The 100-odd guests who failed to show up for the '7th Climate Conference' were not among them.” [4], [5]

Heartland Institute and Tobacco

In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question the science linking second-hand smoke to health risks, and lobbied against government public health reforms. Heartland continues to maintain a “Smoker's Lounge” section of their website which brings together their policy studies, Op-Eds, essays, and other documents that purport to “[cut] through the propaganda and exaggeration of anti-smoking groups.” [6]

In a 1998 op-ed, former Heartland president Joe Bast claimed that “moderate” smoking doesn't raise lung cancer risks, and that there were “few, if any, adverse health effects” associated with smoking. In a fundraising letter to Phillip Morris, Bast wrote to a Phillip Morris executive that “Heartland does many things that benefit Philip Morris’s bottom line, things that no other organization does.” Later, in 2014 Bast denied that he had claimed cigarettes were not harmful, until confronted with his own op-ed. [7], [182], [8]

Roy Marden, past Corporate Affairs Policy Analyst and Manager of Industry Affairs at Philip Morris, served as a board member at the Heartland Institute from 1996 until 2008. According to Heartland, “The public health community's campaign to demonize smokers and all forms of tobacco is based on junk science.” Joseph Bast, current President and CEO, was a strong defender of RJ Reynolds brand Camel's “Joe Camel” campaign, which some have argued (here, and here, for example) targeted younger children. [9], [10], [11], [12]

President Tim Huelskamp

In June, 2017, The Heartland Institute announced Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp would be replacing Joe Bast as president, to begin working starting July, 2017. Bast said he would remain with Heartland as CEO until some time in 2018. Less than two years after starting the role, Huelskamp reportedly resigned from his position in June 2019 with Jim Lakely filing in as interim president. Heartland did not comment on why Huelskamp left the position. [182], [246]

Huelskamp is former chairman of the Tea Party Caucus and a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus. Huelskamp maintains a lifetime score of 5% with the League of Conservation Voters, with a score of 0% in 2016. A full list of legislation sponsored or cosponsored by Huelskamp is available at Congress.gov. According to his voting record tracked at OnTheIssues, Huelskamp has consistently voted against any legislation that would combat fossil fuel emissions or climate change. [183], [184], [185], [186]

According to data from OpenSecrets, Huelskamp's top donor is Koch Industries and he has received the highest lifetime campaign contributions from the Oil and Gas industry, totally over one-quarter of a million dollars. Below are career totals added up by OpenSecrets. [187], [188]

Industry	Total	Contributor	Total	Indivs	PACs
Oil & Gas	$252,393	Koch Industries	$40,900	$3,400	$37,500
Retired	$209,441	Watco Companies	$36,200	$36,200	$0
Crop Production & Basic Processing	$196,178	American Bankers Assn	$35,000	$0	$35,000
Republican/Conservative	$167,254	B&G Production	$34,400	$34,400	$0
Leadership PACs	$152,163	House Freedom Fund	$34,025	$250	$33,775
Health Professionals	$124,755	National Assn of Home Builders	$32,500	$0	$32,500
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing	$102,850	Russell Stover Candies	$32,200	$32,200	$0
Commercial Banks	$93,600	Vess Oil Corp	$30,000	$30,000	$0
Real Estate	$75,310	Hodgdon Powder	$28,700	$28,700	$0
Railroads	$67,848	Onyx Collection	$25,500	$25,500	$0
Agricultural Services/Products	$65,700	KMG Tool	$24,400	$24,400	$0
General Contractors	$59,647	Berexco Inc	$23,700	$23,700	$0
Food & Beverage	$59,550	National Auto Dealers Assn	$22,500	$0	$22,500
Home Builders	$58,900	Citizens United	$22,000	$0	$22,000
Securities & Investment	$55,286	Every Republican is Crucial PAC	$20,000	$0	$20,000
Misc Finance	$53,250	AT&T Inc	$19,500	$500	$19,000
Livestock	$51,025	American Medical Assn	$19,000	$1,000	$18,000
Insurance	$50,613	National Assn of Realtors	$19,000	$0	$19,000
Retail Sales	$44,700	Ariel Corp	$18,900	$18,900	$0
Lawyers/Law Firms	$42,422	Ag Services	$18,250	$18,250	$0

Tim Huelskamp also a signatory to Americans for Prosperity's “No Climate Tax” pledge. The pledge reads as follows:[189]

“I, ________________, pledge to the American people that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue”

He also told HuffPost that he didn't believe that climate change was “settled “science.” [190]

“I don’t think there’s a scientific consensus on that,” Huelskamp said. “If you want to print that life begins at conception, that’s settled science.”

Alternative for Germany (AfD) & Heartland Institute Connections

In May 2019, Spiegel reported EIKE was working closely with the right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Spiegel notes that “EIKE is not a scientific institute, but merely an association. There are no legal restrictions on the term 'institute.'” [244]

“On its website, the group argues that climate policy is a 'pretense' for leaders to 'control the economy and the population' and to “burden people with taxes,” Spiegel ads. “It tries to stir up hatred against the 'Friday for Future' demonstrations and against Greta Thunberg, who some EIKE members refer to as 'Greta Tuna' or that 'climate protection hussy.' As far as institutes go, this one only seems to churn out unsophisticated propaganda.” [244]

Michael Limburg of EIKE claimed by phone that ”EIKE is unaffiliated with any political party.” However, “Limburg himself ran as an AfD candidate in the national election in Gerany and co-wrote a paper for the party's federal committee on energy policy, which now serves as the basis for the party's climate policy. EIKE spokesperson Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, a physicist, was invited by the AfD as an expert on multiple occasions.” [244]

Spiegel also highlights EIKE's connection to the Heartland Institute, which “which provides EIKE with support at conferences.” When asked about the ties to Heartland, Limburg confirmed that EIKE was “loosely connected” to both Heartland and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). Both groups have recieved significant funding from both the oil industry (over $500,000 apiece from ExxonMobil) and right-wing foundations like the Mercers and Koch Family Foundations. [244]

Stance on Climate Change

“Probably two-thirds of the warming in the 1990s was due to natural causes; the warming trend already has stopped and forecasts of future warming are unreliable; and the benefits of a moderate warming are likely to outweigh the costs.

“Global warming, in other words, is not a crisis.” [16]

“You may also know us from our work exposing the shoddy science and missing economics behind the global warming delusion. Our videos, books, studies, and international conferences changed the debate and led to the defeat of 'cap and trade.'” [17]

“Some environmentalists call for a 'save-the-day' strategy to 'stop global warming,' saying it is better to be safe than sorry. Such a position seems logical until we stop to think: Immediate action wouldn't make us any safer, but it would surely make us poorer. And being poorer would make us less safe.” [18]

“Unfortunately, global warming is an issue that is well suited to political demagoguery, which can be defined as pandering to misinformed voters and promising unrealistic solutions. Since opinion polls indicate a majority of the public believes warming is happening, politicians might think the safe strategy is to say 'I believe global warming is a serious problem and I support measures to reduce global warming pollution by supporting renewable fuels and energy efficiency.' Such politicians should be 'outed' for claiming to be smarter than scientists who have studied climate for many years and for using scare tactics to win elections.” [19]

“There is no consensus about the causes, effects, or future rate of global warming.” [20]

Funding

501(c)(3) Charitable Status

According to Heartland in 2011, “Approximately 1,800 supporters support an annual budget of $6 million. Heartland does not accept government funding. Contributions are tax-deductible under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.” As of June 2015, that number has increased to 8,300 supporters, (budget remains listed at $6 million). [21], [22]

Computer scientist John Mashey filed a complaint in 2012 with the IRS questioning Heartland's charitable status:

“I believe there was a massive abuse of 501c(3),” Mashey said. “My extensive study of these think tanks showed numerous specific actions that violated the rules – such as that their work is supposed to be factually based. Such as there was a whole lot of behavior that sure looked like lobbying and sending money to foreign organizations that are not charities.” [23]

Mashey's 2012 report on the Heartland Institute (see PDF) also examines the finances and actions of other organizations including the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CDCDGC).

According to his report (p. 39), the Heartland Institute has received roughly $395,000 from the tobacco company Philip Morris.

Heartland no longer reveals their individual donors, they explain, because “listing our donors in this way allowed people who disagree with our views to accuse us of being 'paid' by specific donors to take positions in public policy debates, something we never do. After much deliberation and with some regret, we now keep confidential the identities of all our donors.” [24]

Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets reports that the Heartland Institute has received $676,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998. Greenpeace also reports that Heartland received at least $55,000 from Koch Industries. [25], [26]

990 Forms

Heartland Institute 2018

Heartland Institute 2017

Heartland Institute 2016

Heartland Institute 2001

Heartland Institute 2015

Heartland-Institute-2014

Heartland-Institute-2013

Heartland-Institute-2012

Heartland-Institute-2011

Heartland-Institute-2010

Heartland-Institute-2009

Heartland-Institute-2008

Heartland-Institute-2007

Heartland-Institute-2006

Heartland-Institute-2005

Heartland-Institute-2004

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Heartland Institute as Recipient

The following is based on data from the Conservative Transparency project and from publicly available 990 forms. Not all funding values have been verified by DeSmog. [27]

See the attached spreadsheet for additional information on Heartland Institute funding by year (.xlsx). [27]

Donor	Total Contributions
Donors Capital Fund	$21,486,044
Mercer Family Foundation	$6,688,000
DonorsTrust	$5,398,100
Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking	$1,430,000
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation	$1,215,500
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation	$1,037,977
Schwab Charitable Fund	$759,600
Exxon Mobil	$561,500
Walton Family Foundation	$410,000
Chase Foundation of Virginia	$392,500
Barney Family Foundation¹	$360,000
Sarah Scaife Foundation	$325,000
Searle Freedom Trust	$300,000
American Action Network	$300,000
Bradley Impact Fund	$206,000
Friedman Foundation For Educational Choice	$205,100
The Rodney Fund	$202,000
Jaquelin Hume Foundation	$201,000
Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust	$190,500
Ed Uihlein Family Foundation	$175,000
Stuart Family Foundation	$175,000
The McWethy Foundation	$125,000
Castle Rock Foundation	$110,000
The Rauner Family Foundation	$100,000
PhRMA	$90,000
JM Foundation	$82,000
Armstrong Foundation	$72,500
Adolph Coors Foundation	$70,000
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation	$62,578
John William Pope Foundation	$55,000
National Association of Manufacturers	$52,500
Windway Foundation	$47,000
Arthur N. Rupe Foundation	$44,000
Robert P. Rotella Foundation	$42,500
The Roe Foundation	$41,500
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation	$40,000
John M. Olin Foundation	$40,000
Deramus Foundation²	$35,000
American Petroleum Institute	$25,000
Hickory Foundation	$23,000
Dodge Jones Foundation	$20,500
Huizenga Foundation	$19,500
The Robertson-Finley Foundation	$18,000
E L Craig Foundation	$15,000
Woodhouse Family Foundation	$14,500
Hoover Institution	$10,000
The Carthage Foundation	$10,000
The Challenge Foundation	$6,000
Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation	$5,000
Foundation for Economic Education	$255
Richard Seth Staley Educational Foundation	$200
Grand Total	$43,295,354

¹Has funded to DonorsTrust, a group that has distributed over $80 million to conservative causes, many of which deny man-made climate change.

²Has funded Philanthropy Roundtable, a spinoff of DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. They all operate in a similar way to cloak the identity of donors by having donations under the name of DonorsTrust, Donors Capital Fund, or Philanthropy Roundtable.

Heartland Institute as Donor

Heartland Institute donations are listed on their 990 forms up to the year 2010. Current values are not available. [27], [28]

Recipient	Total
Shimer College	$500,000
Moving Picture Institute	$250,000
Texas Public Policy Foundation	$100,000
Americans for Prosperity Foundation	$50,000
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy	$50,000
Evergreen Freedom Foundation	$50,000
Maine Heritage Policy Center	$50,000
James Madison Institute	$50,000
International Climate Science Coalition	$45,000
Galen Institute	$43,000
Alabama Policy Institute	$40,000
Free Enterprise Education Institute	$25,000
Africa Fighting Malaria	$25,000
Frontier Centre for Public Policy	$25,000
Kansas Taxpayers Network	$25,000
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition	$25,000
Natural Resources Stewardship Project	$25,000
Council for Affordable Health Insurance	$20,000
Science & Environmental Policy Project	$15,000
South Carolina Policy Council	$10,000
Grand Total	$1,423,000

Koch Funding

According to Greenpeace USA, Koch Foundations contributed $55,000 to the Heartland Institute between 1997 and 2011. [26]

*Original tax forms prior to 1997 are no longer available for verification. If you include these values, the grand total jumps to $100,000 in Koch funding from 1987 to 2011. [26]

Year	Charles Koch Foundation	Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation	Grand Total
*1986	$2,578		$2,578
*1987	$5,000		$5,000
*1988	$5,000		$5,000
*1989	$5,000		$5,000
*1992		$10,000	$10,000
*1995	$10,000		$10,000
*1996	$10,000		$10,000
1997		$10,000	$10,000
1998		$10,000	$10,000
1999		$10,000	$10,000
2011	$25,000		$25,000
Grand Total	$62,578	$40,000	$102,578

The Heartland Institute's leaked 2012 Fundraising Plan states that “The Charles G. Koch Foundation returned as a Heartland Donor in 2011. We expect to ramp up their level of support in 2012 and gain access to the network of philanthropists they work with.”

However, the Foundation since released the following statement: “… the Charles Koch Foundation provided $25,000 to the Heartland Institute in 2011 for research in healthcare, not climate change, and this was the first and only donation the Foundation made to the institute in more than a decade. The Foundation has made no further commitments of funding to Heartland.” [29]

Donors Capital Fund/DonorsTrust

Donors Capital Fund (DCF) and its partner organization DonorsTrust allow donors to fund organizations anonymously. They appear to be a spinoff of the Philanthropy Roundtable, a group run by Whitney Ball, who also launched DonorsTrust.

The Heartland Institute has received large anonymous donations through DCF and DonorsTrust, with a combined total of at least $15,391,794.

See p. 58 of the 2012 Mashey Report for more details.John Mashey also covers DCF on page 65 of his 2012 report. According to DCF's website, “Donors Capital Fund is an IRS-approved, 501(c)(3), 509(a)(3) supporting organization that is associated with DonorsTrust, a public charity and donor-advised fund formed to safeguard the charitable intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise.”

DonorsTrust refers clients to Donors Capital Fund if they expect to open donor-advised funds of over $1,000,000. [30]

DonorsTrust

DonorsTrust contributed at least $631,250 between 2008 and 2012 to the Heartland Institute: [31]

Source 990 forms:

2007 (PDF)
2008 (PDF)
2009 (PDF)
2010 (PDF)
2012 (PDF)

Year	Project
2007		$500
2008	general operations	$11,750

2009	general operations	$1,000
	general operations	$1,000
	general operations	$3,000
	general operations	$5,000
	“advertising in response to organization's emphasis on marketing of research.”	$6,500
	general operations	$500,000

2010	general operations	$250
	general operations	$1,000
	general operations	$1,000

2012	Seventh International Conference on Climate Change	$100,000
	general operations	$250
	general operations	$500

Grand Total		$631,750

Donors Capital Fund

From 2005 to 2013, DCF contributed at least $16,560,544 to the Heartland Institute. See source 990 forms below: [32]

Year	Project
2005	Individual projects not listed.	$550,427

2007	Individual projects not listed.	$2,955,437

2008	general operations	$2,000,000
	“the global warming research project”	$900,000
	“media materials”	$100,000
	“staff directed research”	$126,000
	“final installment of three-year general ops support”	$1,300,000
	“global warming research projects”	$184,000

2009	“CORE”	$10,590
	“G.W. reporting for one year”	$150,000
	“health care project”	$190,000
	“Ranthum, Australia and Old projects”	$300,000
	general operations	$400,000
	$620,940 for “GW-end” and $500,000 for annual support	$1,120,940

2010	for the organization's India Meeting Project	$14,150
	general operations	$1,650,000


2011	$49,000 for the NIPCC/Climate Change Project and $80,000 for School Choice in TX	$129,000

2012	general operations	$1,000,000

2013	for Climatism books & DVD projects	$100,000
	for the Sri Fi Project ($60,000) and the New Zealand Project ($20,000)	$80,000
	general operations	$1,500,000

2015	for general operations	$1,800,000

Grand Total		$16,560,544

Anonymous Donor

One Anonymous Donor has contributed a large percentage of Heartland's budget in past years, with a focus on their global warming projects.

According to the Heartland 2012 Fundraising Plan, the Anonymous Donor made the following contributions from 2007-2011:

Project	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
General Operating	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	$700,000	$350,000
Ramp Up Program	$800,000	$800,000	$400,000	$0	$0
Global Warming Projects	$1,976,937	$3,300,000	$1,732,180	$964,150	$629,000
Health Care	$0	$0	$190,000	$0	$0
School Reform	$0	$0	$0	$0	$80,000
Total	$3,276,937	$4,600,000	$2,822,180	$1,664,150	$979,000

Illinois auditor reports for 2003-2009 reveal that a single donor (possibly the same individual as the “Anonymous Donor”) contributed the following percentages of outstanding accounts receivable in those years (also see p. 56 of John Mashey's report):

2004 (PDF — See p. 27) — 74% contributed by two donors.

2005 (PDF — See p. 32) — 74% from one donor.

2006 (PDF — See p. 33) — 25% from one individual.

2007 (PDF — See p. 32) — 38% from one donor.

2008 (PDF — from 2009 — see p. 43) — 58% from one donor.

2009 (see previous, p. 43) — 35% from one donor.

The Anonymous Donor pledged $1,250,000 for 2012, including contributions to the NIPCC Project, Anthony Watts' “Weather Stations Project,” and David Wojick's “Global Warming Curriculum Project” (See “Actions” for details):

Amount	Project
$457,000	General Operating
$194,000	NIPCC Project
$44,000	Weather Stations Project
$100,000	Global Warming Curriculum Project
$105, 000	Cook County Debt Project
$100,000	Operation Angry Badger
$250,000	Additional gift (not determined)
$1,250,000	Total

Renewing 2012 Donors

Reproduced below, from Heartland's “2012 Fundraising Plan” (p. 22 - 25) is their list of organizations and foundations that they expected to donate in 2012, as well as their donations from 2010-2011.

Note that after this information became public, some donors pulled their support of the Institute. Even more pulled support after Heartland's Unabomber billboard campaign which asserted that “the most prominent advocates of global warming aren't scientists; they are murderers, tyrants, and madmen.” [33]

Some donors who no longer fund Heartland include:

General Motors Corporation
State Farm Insurance
Diageo
BB&T
PepsiCo
Eli Lilly & Co.
RenaissanceRe
XL Group
Allied World Assurance Company
USAA
Bayer
GlaxoSmithKline
Verizon
Wisconsin Insurance Alliance
Credit Union National Association

Original funders included:

Name	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Projected	2012 as % of 2011	Project
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd.	$50,000	$60,000	$40,000	67%	FIRE
Altria Client Services Inc.¹	$40,000	$50,000	$50,000	100%	BTN
Amgen, USA	$25,000	$0	$25,000	??	HCN
Arthur Margulis²	$25,000	$25,000	$25,000	100%	GO
Arthur N. Rupe Foundation	$0	$0	$10,000	??	GO
Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers	$50,000	$75,000	$50,000	67%	FIRE
AT&T for IT&T News	$70,000	$30,000	$30,000	100%	ITTN
AT&T for CFIRE	$0	$0	$10,000	??	FIRE
Barney Family Foundation³	$50,000	$25,000	$50,000	200%	SRN
Bartley Madden	$182,277	$216,656	$400,000	185%	HCN
Bayer Corporation	$0	$0	$25,000	??	HCN
BB&T (John Allison)	$16,105	$0	$25,000	??	ECN
Bernard Baltic Estate	$0	$77,807	$0	0%	GO
Castle Rock Foundation	$0	$0	$40,000	??	GO
Charles McQuaid	$11,000	$1,000	$10,000	1000%	ECN
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation	$0	$25,000	$200,000	800%	HCN
Chase Foundation of Virginia⁴	$25,000	$25,000	$25,000	100%	GO
Chris Rufer⁵	$27,000	$25,000	$50,000	200%	GO
Comcast Corporation	$10,000	$25,000	$25,000	100%	ITTN
Contran Corporation	$25,000	$50,000	$50,000	100%	ECN
Credit Union National Association	$26,500	$30,000	$25,000	83%	FIRE
CTIA - The Wireless Association	$80,000	$40,000	$40,000	100%	ITTN
David Albin	$10,540	$10,000	$10,000	100%	GO
Dan Hales	$20,560	$25,000	$25,000	100%	GO
David Herro	$35,000	$60,000	$60,000	100%	ECN
David Lawson	$20,864	$17,000	$15,000	88%	GO
Dezenhall Resources, Ltd.⁶	$15,000	$27,000	$50,000	185%	HCN
Diageo	$10,000	$0	$10,000	??	GO
Eli Lilly & Company	$25,000	$0	$25,000	??	HCN
Elizabeth Rose⁷	$40,000	$15,000	$15,000	100%	GO
Eric Brooks	$10,000	$10,000	$10,000	100%	GO
Farmers' Insurance (Zurich)	$0	$0	$25,000	??	FIRE
Frank Resnik⁸	$5,065	$25,000	$30,000	120%	GO
Fred Young	$10,000	$15,000	$15,000	100%	GO
General Motors Foundation⁹	$15,000	$15,000	$15,000	100%	SRN
Genting	$0	$0	$0	??	FIRE
GlaxoSmithKline	$30,000	$20,000	$20,000	100%	HCN
Gleason Family Foundation¹⁰	$0	$50,000	$50,000	100%	SRN
Golden Rule Insurance Company	$40,030	$250,000	$250,000	100%	HCN
Herbert Walberg¹¹	$85,000	$25,000	$50,000	200%	GO
HSA Bank	$0	$0	$10,000	??	HCN
International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers	$0	$0	$10,000	??	BTN
IronBridge Capital Management, L.P.	$40,000	$25,000	$25,000	100%	GO
James Fitzgerald¹²	$10,000	$0	$25,000	??	SRN
James McWethy	$0	$20,000	$20,000	100%	ECN
Jaquelin Hume Foundation¹³	$25,000	$0	$25,000	??	SRN
Jerry and Marilyn Hayden	$120,000	$170,000	$170,000	118%	GO
John William Pope Foundation	$25,000	$15,000	$15,000	100%	GO
Kayser Family Foundation	$13,000	$15,000	$15,000	100%	ECN
KCI	$0	$115,000	$0	0%	FIRE
Larch Communications, LLC	$0	$0	$25,000	??	BTN
Larry Smead Fund	$10,000	$10,000	$10,000	100%	GO
Las Vegas Sands (DCI Group)	$0	$0	$5,000	??	FIRE
Leslie Rose¹⁴	$65,500	$50,000	$60,000	120%	GO
LKQ Corporation	$24,500	$0	$150,000	??	FIRE
Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation	$125,000	$50,000	$50,000	100%	ECN
Microsoft Corporation¹⁵	$0	$59,908	$10,000	17%	ITTN
Mike Keiser	$31,000	$25,000	$35,000	140%	GO
Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation	$0	$0	$25,000	??	HCN
Murray Energy Corporation	$100,000	$0	$40,000	??	ECN
National Cable & Telecommunications Association	$0	$10,000	$10,000	100%	ITTN
Nationwide Insurance	$0	$0	$10,000	??	FIRE
Norman Rogers	$3,570	$10,000	$20,000	200%	GO
Nucor Corporation	$402,000	$100,000	$50,000	50%	ECN
Patrick O'Meara	$80,000	$0	$60,000	??
Pfizer	$130,000	$0	$150,000	??	HCN
PhRMA¹⁶	$20,000	$0	$20,000	??	HCN
Renaissance ReService Ltd.	$90,000	$317,000	$280,000	88%	FIRE
Reynolds American Inc.	0$	$110,000	$110,000	100%	FIRE
Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment¹⁷	$0	$0	$10,000	??	ECN
Robert Buford¹⁸	$21,120	$30,000	$30,000	100%	GO
Rodney Fund	$10,000	$12,000	$10,000	83%	GO
Searle Freedom Trust¹⁹	$0	$0	$50,000	??	ECN
State Farm (Jeff Judson)²⁰	$114,200	$230,000	$95,000	41%	FIRE
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company	$60,000	$60,000	$60,000	100%	FIRE
Susquehanna International Group LLP	$10,000	$10,000	$10,000	100%	HCN
Stanley Hubbard	$65	$10,000	$10,000	100%	ECN
Stuart Family Foundation	$25,000	$0	$25,000	??	ECN
Texas Cable Association	$0	$0	$5,000	??	FIRE
The Deramus Foundation	$10,000	$10,000	$10,000	100%	GO
The Justice Foundation	$0	$10,000	$10,000	100%	SRN
The Negaunee Foundation	$0	$10,000	$10,000	100%	BTN
Philip Friedmann Family Charitable Trust	$15,000	$10,000	$10,000	100%	GO
The Robert P. Rotella Foundation	$5,000	$10,000	$10,000	100%	HCN
Time Warner Cable	$10,000	$10,000	$20,000	200%	ITTN
Triad Foundation, Inc.	$25,000	$25,000	$25,000	100%	ECN
USAA²¹	$0	$45,000	$50,000		FIRE
US Chamber of Commerce	$25,000	$0	$25,000	??	LEGAL
Will Wohler	$8,000	$0	$10,000	??	GO
William Dunn²²	$150,000	$330,000	$300,000	91%	HCN
Wisconsin Insurance Alliance	$0	$0	$50,000	??	FIRE
XL Group	$0	$35,000	$0	0%	FIRE
Verizon²³	$0	$0	$10,000	??	ITTN
Totals	$2,887,896	$3,293,371	$4,145,000	126%

Notes:

Altria Group is the parent company of Philip Morris USA.
Appears to have been a Heartland Institute Board Member.
Also funded the Cato Institute in 2006, 2007, and possibly other years.
Funded the Cato Institute in 2006.
Attended a June 2010 Meeting of the Koch Network, aka the “Koch Strategy Meeting.”
A PR company described by SourceWatch as specializing in “'aggressive' campaigns to defend corporations from complaints by progressive groups.”
Appears to have been a past Heartland Institute Board Member (2009).
Frank Resnik, retired Vice-Chairman of Medline Industries, Inc., was also a past Heartland Institute Board Member.
When originally asked about its funding of Heartland, GM responded: “We support a variety of organizations that give careful and considerate thought to complex policy issues and Heartland is one of them,” Greg Martin, GM’s director of policy and Washington communications said to The Guardian. This was before Heartland's billboard campaign. [34]
Also funded the Cato Institute in 2006.
Current Heartland Institute Board Member, and member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. The Hoover Institution has received funding from ExxonMobil and Scaife Foundations among others.
Past Heartland Institute Board Member (2009).
Possible connection to ALEC: Gisele Huff, executive director of Jaquelin Hume Foundation, spoke at the 2001 ALEC Task Force Meeting in New York. According to the Conservative Transparency project, the foundation has also funded the Cato Instiute. [35]
Member of the Board of Directors of the “New Coalition for Economic and Social Change,” an organization with affiliations with the Heartland Institute and a member of the State Policy Network.
According to a statement from Microsoft, this donation “came in the form of software licenses available to 'any eligible non-profit organization'.” Microsoft continues to support Heartland. Following Heartland's billboard campaign, Microsoft stated that “The Heartland Institute does not speak for Microsoft on climate change. In fact, the Heartland Institute’s position on climate change is diametrically opposed to Microsoft’s position. And we completely disagree with the group’s inflammatory and distasteful advertising campaign.” Microsoft continues to donate software to Heartland. [36], [37]
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is an influential lobbying organization in Washington representing 48 pharmaceutical companies.
According to SourceWatch, RISE is a lobbying and public relations trade organization, defends the “urban usage” of pesticides in homes, schools, and landscapes.
Robert Buford is a Heartland Institute Board Member.
Kimberly O. Dennis, President and CEO of Searle Freedom Trust is also on the Board of Directors of the Donors Capital Fund (DCF). DCF and its related Donor's Trust allow groups and individuals to donate anonymously. DCF is also a key source of Heartland's anonymous donations. [38]
There is also a “Jeff Judson,” listed as president of Judson & Associates, who is on Heartland's current Board of Directors and who was the former president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. A search does not list a connection between a Jeff Judson and State Farm, so this may not be the same individual.
According to SourceWatch, one United Services Automobile Association (USAA) was listed as an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) supporter, being a “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference.
William A. Dunn runs Dunn Capital Management, Inc. in Stuart, Florida. He has been a Director of the Property and Environment Research Center, the Cato Institute, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking has supported the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
According to SourceWatch, Verizon is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It is on the corporate “Private Enterprise” board and is State corporate co-chair of Virginia and Wyoming. It has been a member of the ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force.

Key People

The Heartland Institute has over 800 experts and staff members on their website. View the attached spreadsheet for a complete list of Heartland experts and staff (.xlsx).

Board of Directors

Name

1999

2000

2001

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2015

2016^[153]

2017

2018

Description

Arthur B. Robinson

Cofounder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Brian Singer

Chicago, Illinois

Chuck Lang

Indianapolis, Indiana

Dan Hales

Winnetka, Illinois

Herbert J. Walberg

Senior Fellow, Education

James L. Johnston

Senior Fellow, Economic Policy

Jeffrey Madden

Chicago, Illinois

Jeré C. Fabick

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Joseph L. Bast

President and CEO (stepping down as of July, 2017) [182]

Robert J. Buford

Chicago, Illinois

William S. Armistead

Duluth, Georgia

Jeff Judson

San Antonio, Texas

Jeffrey V. McKinley

Chicago, Illinois

Robert Buford

Chicago, Illinois

Arthur Margulis

Chicago, Illinois

Harrison H. Schmitt

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Mike Rose

Washington, DC

Paul Fisher

Chicago, Illinois

David H. Padden

Rajeev Bal

Richard Collins

Robert J. Lamendola

Elizabeth Rose

San Diego, California

James Fitzgerald

Inverness, Illinois

William Higginson

Chicago, Illinois

Frank Resnik

Chicago, Illinois

Thomas Walton

Detroit, Michigan

Biju Kulathakal

Roy E. Marden

Philip Morris Companies

Walter F. Buchholtz

Lee Tooman

Leslie Rose

Lee H. Walker

John Skorburg

American Farm Bureau Federation

Robert E. Russell Jr.

Robert Russell & Associates Inc.

Ross Kaminsky

Tahoe Trading LLC

David Thornbury

General Motors Corporation

Al St. Clair

Procter & Gamble

John Hosemann

American Farm Bureau Federation

Ronald Docksai

Bayer Corporation

Staff

Name

1999

2000

2001

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2018

Description

Kevin Leonard

Creative Director

Diane Bast

Executive Editor and Finance Manager

Joseph Bast

Director and Senior Fellow

Nikki Comerford

Associate Publisher and Events Manager

S.T. Karnick

Director of Publications

Gwendalyn Carver

Director of Development

John Nothdurft

Director of Government Relations

Keely Drukala

Deputy Director of Communications

Matthew Glans

Senior Policy Analyst

Jim Lakely

Director of Communications

Latreece Reed

Executive Vice President

Jay Lehr

Science Director

Aaron D. Stover

Corporate Relations Officer

Isaac Orr

Research Fellow

H. Sterling Burnett

Senior Fellow and Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News

Jesse Hathaway

Research Fellow and Managing Editor, Budget & Tax News

Justin Haskins

Executive Editor and Research Fellow

Donny Kendal

Graphic Designer

Lennie Jarratt

Project Manager, Center for Transforming Education

Lindsey Stroud

State Government Relations Manager

Teresa Mull

Research Fellow and Managing Editor, School Reform News

Tim Benson

Policy Analyst

Veronica Harrison

Director of Marketing

Wanda L. Davis

Executive Assistant to the President

Peter Ferrara

Senior Fellow, Entitlement and Budget Policy

Andy Singer

New Media Specialist

Arianna Wilkerson

Government Relations

Bette Grande

Research Fellow

Billy Aouste

New Media Specialist

Charles Katebi

State Government Relations Manager

Christopher Talgo

Marketing Coordinator

Edward Hudgins

Research Director

Frederick D. Palmer

Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate. Palmer joined Heartland in January, 2017. Fred Palmer is Peabody Energy’s Senior Vice President of Government Relations. [162], [163]

Herbert J. Walberg

Senior Fellow, Education

Joseph Davis

Librarian

Robert G. Holland

Senior Fellow, Education

Tim Huelskamp

Former president and CEO. Resigned in June 2019. [246]

Nathan Makla

State Government Relations Manager

Kyle Maichle

Project Manager, Constitutional Reform, The Heartland Institute

Logan Elizabeth Pike

State Government Relations Manager, The Heartland Institute

MaryAnn McCabe

State Government Relations Manager

Michael Hamilton

Steve Stanek

Research Fellow, Finance Insurance and Real Estate

Robin Knox

Administrator of Foundation Support, The Heartland Institute

Benjamin Domenech

James M. Taylor

Senior Fellow, Environment and Energy Policy

Heather Kays

Policy Advisor, The Heartland Institute

Logan Pike

State Government Relations Manager, The Heartland Institute

Veronica Adkins

Marketing Manager

Joy Pullmann

Research Fellow, Education

Taylor Smith

Jennifer Pinnell

Vice President of Development

Conrad Meier

Heartland Institute Staff

Mark Sulkin

Director of Development, The Heartland Institute

Elizabeth Ow

Graphic Designer

Kevin Fitzgerald

Vice President

Tammy Nash

Media Relations Manager

Alan B. Smith

Senior Fellow, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

Bruce Edward Walker

Policy Advisor, Technology and Telecom

Bruno Behrend

Senior Fellow, The Heartland Institute

Christian Cámara

Florida Director, Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.

Eli Lehrer

National Director and Vice President.

Julie Drenner

Co-founder, Texas Director, R-Street

Antoinette Blacconeri

Intern, Government Relations Department

Brandon Arnold

Director, Government and Institutional Relations, Free To Choose Medicine Project.

Deborah Bailin

Administrator, Washington, DC Office

Don Brown

Senior Fellow, Insurance Policy.

John Monaghan

Legislative Specialist.

Kendall Antekeier

Writer

R.J. Lehmann

Public Affairs Director, R Street Institute

Rachel Rivest Dunbar

Corporate Relations Manager

Vincent H. Galbiati

Managing Director, Free To Choose Medicine Project

Cheryl Parker

Administrative Assistant, The Heartland Institute

Latreece Vankinscott

Vice President - Administration, The Heartland Institute

Latonya Harris

Computer Systems/Web Site Manager, The Heartland Institute

Maureen Martin

Senior Fellow, Legal Affairs

Ralph Conner

Local Legislation Manager, The Heartland Institute

Dan Miller

Policy Advisor, The Heartland Institute

Peter Fotos

Director of Government Relations, The Heartland Institute

Ben Boychuk

Policy Advisor, Education

Jesse Buggs

Administrative Assistant, Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

Marc Oestreich

Legislative Specialist, Coordinator - Heartland Digital

Paul Chesser

Associate Fellow, National Legal and Policy Center

Rachel Rivest

Development Assistant, The Heartland Institute

Karla Dial

Managing Editor, School Reform News

Tonya Houston

Administrative Assistant/Database Manager, The Heartland Institute

Brian Costin

Assistant Director of Government Relations, The Heartland Institute

Darrell Moore

Administrative Assistant/Data Entry Clerk, The Heartland Institute

Jeff Emanuel

Managing Editor. Health Care News

John O'Hara

Membership Manager, The Heartland Institute

Lauren Chrissos

Vice President - Development, The Heartland Institute

Zonia Pino

Legislative Specialist, The Heartland Institute

Kristine Esposo

Corporate Relations Manager, The Heartland Institute

Alexandra (Sandy) Liddy Bourne

Policy Advisor, The Heartland Institute

Cece Forrester

Senior Development Associate, The Heartland Institute

Amy McIntyre

Senior Graphic Designer

Steven Titch

Independent Policy Analyst

Dane Wendell

Legislative Specialist

Erin Murphy

Legislative Assistant

James Rottet

Legislative Specialist

Jim Eiden

Legislative Specialist

Michael Van Winkle

Media Specialist

Trevor Martin

Government Relations Director

George Clowes

Senior Fellow, Education

Erica Lieberman

Executive Assistant

John Skorburg

Associate Editor, Budget & Tax News

Sean Parnell

Research Fellow, Health Policy

Susan Konig

Managing Editor, Health Care News

Carole Wadley

Data Entry Clerk/Receptionist

Phylicia Lyons

Executive Director, Illinois School Choice Initiative

T. Nicholas Tyszka

Yolanda Richardson

Nikki Saret

Associate Publisher

Allen Fore

Vice President - Public Affairs

Ross Van Overberghe

Greg Lackner

Public Affairs Director

Jen Beranek

Design Assistant

Toria Jones

Executive Assistant

John R. La Plante

Research Assistant & Librarian

Lee Alan Lerner

Public Affairs Director

Robin Sikora

Executive Assistant

Latreece Smith

Receptionist and Administrative Assistant

Tom Randall

Managing Editor, Environment News

Bonner R. Cohen

Senior fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research

Michelle Jones

Receptionist & Administrative Assistant

Experts

*Note, the following is a partial list. It includes notable names from Heartland's “Journalists Guide” to global warming, their general experts list, policy advisors, as well as their “speakers bureau” which highlights certain policy experts. As noted on the Heartland website, not all of the experts they list maintain a direct relationship with Heartland.

View the attached spreadsheet to see a full list of Heartland Experts year over year (.xlsx).

Name

1999

2000

2001

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2011

2012

2014

2015

2016

2018

Heartland Description

James M. Taylor

Senior Fellow, Environment and Energy Policy

Jay Lehr

Science Director

Dennis Avery

Director, Center for Global Food Issues

Craig Idso

Founder and Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

S. Fred Singer

Director, the Science and Environmental Policy Project

Tom Harris

Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition

Steve Goreham

Author, Environmental Researcher

Anthony R. Lupo

Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri - Columbia

Anthony Watts

Founder, SurfaceStations.org; WattsUpWithThat.com

Craig Loehle

Principal Scientist, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement

E. Calvin Beisner

National Spokesman, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

Fred Goldberg (1942-2016)

Climate Analyst

George Taylor

Former State Climatologist and Faculty Member, Oregon State University

Howard Hayden

Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of Connecticut

Ian Plimer

Professor of Mining Geology, The University of Adelaide

Indur Goklany

Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

J. Scott Armstrong

Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

John Coleman

Former Meteorologist, KUSI-TV San Diego

Lord Christopher Monckton

Former Special Advisor, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Madhav Khandekar

Former Research Scientist, Environment Canada

Marlo Lewis

Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Myron Ebell

Director, Energy and Global Warming Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Patrick Michaels

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Richard Lindzen

Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Bradley

CEO, Institute for Energy Research

Robert M. Carter (1942-2016)

Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute

Roy Spencer

Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Stanley Goldenberg

Hurricane Meteorologist, Miami, FL

Timothy Ball

Environmental Consultant and Former Climatology Professor, University of Winnipeg

Václav Klaus

President, Czech Republic

Willie Soon

Astrophysicist and a geoscientist based in Cambridge, MA; policy advisor, The Heartland Institute

Harrison Schmitt

Former NASA Astronaut and U.S. Senator

Patrick Moore

Co-founder, former leader of Greenpeace; Chairman of Ecology, Energy and Prosperity with Canada’s Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Ron Arnold

Executive Vice President, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

William Kininmonth

Scientist, Australasian Climate Research

Roy Cordato

Vice President for Research, John Locke Foundation

Norman Rogers

Author, Founder of Rabbitt Semiconductor

Walter Starck

Marine scientist and expert on coral reefs

Andreas Prokoph (1965-2016)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

Antonino Zichichi

Founder and Director, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

Art Horn

Meteorologist, The Art of Weather

Barun Mitra

Founder and Director, Liberty Institute

Boris Winterhalter

Senior Marine Research (retired), Geological Survey of Finland

Chris de Freitas

Associate Professor, University of Auckland

Chris Horner

Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Christopher Essex

Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario

Daniel Simmons

Director of State Affairs, Institute for Energy Research

David Archibald

Director, The Lavoisier Society

David Bellamy

Botanist, The Conservation Foundation

David Douglass

Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

David Wojick

Former consultant, Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Donald Boudreaux

Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University

Ferenc Miskolczi

Atmospheric Physicist

Freeman Dyson

Emeritus Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies

Gerd-Rainer Weber

Scientist, German Coal Mining Association

H. Sterling Burnett

Senior Fellow and Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News

Iain Murray

Director of Projects and Analysis/Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Ian Clark

Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

James O'Brien

Professor Emeritus of Meteorology and Oceanography, The Florida State University

Joel Schwartz

Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Joseph D'Aleo

Executive Director, Icecap.us; Co-chief Meteorologist, WeatherBELL Analytics,LLC

Kennith Chilton

Director, Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment

Kesten Green

Senior Research Fellow, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia Business School

Lee Gerhard

Senior Scientist Emeritus, University of Kansas

Marc Morano

Executive editor and chief correspondent, ClimateDepot.com

Owen McShane (1941-2012)

Chairman, Policy Panel, New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

R. Timothy Patterson

Professor of Geology, Carleton University

Robert Essenhigh

Bailey Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Sallie Baliunas

Astrophysicist and Senior Scientist, George C. Marshall Institute

Steven Milloy

Portfolio Manager, Free Enterprise Action Fund

Syun-Ichi Akasofu

Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center

Thomas Tanton

Director of Science and Technology Assessment, E&E Legal

Todd Myers

Environmental Director, Washington Policy Center

Tom Segalstad

Associate Professor of Resource and Environmental Geology, University of Oslo

Vincent Gray

Expert Reviewer, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

William Briggs

Statistical Consultant, New York Methodist Hospital; wmbriggs.com

William Gray (1929-2016)

Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

Alan Carlin

Carlin Economics and Science

Alan Moran

Past Director, Deregulation Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs

Arthur B. Robinson

Cofounder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Brian Valentine

General Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Fred L. Smith

President and Founder, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Ivar Giaever

Fellow, American Physical Society

Jan Veizer

Emeritus Professor of Geology, University of Ottawa

John Theon

NASA Atmospheric Scientist (retired)

Kenneth Haapala

President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

Kiminori Itoh

Professor, Yokohama National University

Laurence Gould

Professor of Physics, University of Hartford

Nir Shaviv

Professor, Racah Institute of Physics

Peter Dietze

Energy Advisor and Climate Modeler, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Petr Chylek

Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Paul Driessen

Senior Policy Advisor, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

Jerome Arnett Jr.

Pulmonologist

Joe Bastardi

Chief Meteorologist, WeatherBell

Larry Bell

Endowed Professor - Space Architecture, University of Houston

Marita Noon

Executive Director, Citizen's Alliance for Responsible Energy

Walter Cunningham

Apollo 7 astronaut, author

W. Kip Viscusi

Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University

Randy E. Barnett

Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, the Georgetown University Law Center

Richard Ebeling

Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership, The Citadel

Richard Vedder

Professor of Economics, Ohio University

Brad Rodu

Senior Fellow

Bruce L. Benson

Economics Department Chair, Florida State University

Mark Thornton

Senior Fellow and Resident Faculty Member, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Steve Hanke

Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University

Thomas DiLorenzo

Economics Professor, Loyola University Maryland

William F. Shughart II

Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University

Joseph Bast

Director and Senior Fellow

Wendell Cox

Wendell Cox, Principal of Wendell Cox Consultancy

John Dale Dunn

Physician, Attorney, and Policy Advisor to The Heartland Institute

Cecil Bohanon

Professor of Economics, Ball State University

Sean Parnell

Research Fellow, Health Policy

Alan Caruba

Founder, The National Anxiety Center

Charles W. Baird

Former Professor of Economics, California State University, East Bay

James DeLong

Vice President, COO and Senior Analyst, Convergence Law Institute, LLC

Jim Lakely

Director of Communications

John Nothdurft

Director of Government Relations

Mischa Popoff

Author, Is It Organic?

Peter Ferrara

Senior Fellow, Entitlement and Budget Policy

James L. Johnston

Senior Fellow, Economic Policy

Thomas Walton

Affiliated expert, AEG

Don Coursey

Graduate school of public policy, University of Chicago

Ronald D. Rotunda

Doy & Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Chapman University

Sam Peltzman

Emeritus, Business School, University of Chicago

Barry Poulson

Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Colorado

Dwight Lee

William J. O’Neil Professor of Global Markets and Freedom, Southern Methodist University

Gary MacDougal

Author, former CEO of Mark Controls, former advisor to Illinois governor's office

George L. Priest

Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School

Richard McKenzie

Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society, UC-Irvine

Stan Liebowitz

Director, Center for Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation, University of Texas at Dallas

Alexandra (Sandy) Liddy Bourne

Policy Advisor, The Heartland Institute

Howard Maccabee

Founding President, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

Michael R. Fox (1936-2011)

Miklos Zagoni

Physicist and Science Historian, Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest)

Merrill Matthews

Resident Scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation

Richard Stroup

Adjunct Professor, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University

Andrew Morriss

D. Paul Jones, Jr. & Charlene Angelich Jones Chairholder of Law, University of Alabama

Angela Logomasini

Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Bartlett Cleland

Managing Director, Madery Bridge Associates

Bill Peacock

Vice President of Research and Director of the Center for Economic Freedom, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Bonner R. Cohen

Senior fellow, National Center for Public Policy Research

Bruce Yandle

Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Charles Battig

Retired physician and electrical engineer

Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.

Vice President for Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Donald J. Devine

Senior Scholar, The Fund for American Studies

Donn Dears

Energy Expert; General Electric executive (retired)

Horace Cooper

Senior Fellow

Isaac Orr

Research Fellow

Jack Spencer

Director, Roe Institute

James E. Enstrom

Research Professor, University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health

James Wanliss

Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College

Jeff Stier

Senior Fellow, Consumer Choice Center

Jeffrey Tucker

Director of Digital Development, Foundation for Economic Education

Jeré C. Fabick

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

John A. Baden

Chairman, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment

John C. Goodman

President, Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research

Jonathan H. Adler

Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Richard A. Viguerie

Chairman, American Target Advertising

Robert Zubrin

Founder and President, Pioneer Energy

Russell Cook

Contributing Editor, Environment & Climate News

Sally Pipes

President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, Pacific Research Institute

Sam Kazman

General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Scott Cleland

President of Precursor LLC

Herbert J. Walberg

Senior Fellow, Education

Benjamin Ginsberg

David Deming

Professor of Arts and Sciences, Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, University of Oklahoma

Holger J. Thuss

President, European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE)

Jon Basil Utley

Publisher, the American Conservative

Kathleen Hartnett White

Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director, Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment

Michael L. Marlow

Professor of Economics, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Tim Huelskamp

President and CEO

Yaron Brook

Executive Director, The Ayn Rand Institute

David Legates

Climatologist and Director, Delaware Environmental Observing System

David Tuerck

President, Beacon Hill Institute

Robert Balling

Professor of Climatology, Arizona State University

John Charles

President and CEO, Cascade Policy Institute

Andrei Illarionov

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Dan Gainor

Vice President, Business & Media Institute

David Schnare

Senior Fellow - Energy and the Environment, Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy

Eric Posmentier

Adjunct Faculty Member, Dartmouth College

Fred Michel

Director, Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University

Hans Labohm

Guest Teacher, Netherlands Defense Academy

John Christy

Director, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama - Huntsville

Julian Morris

Executive Director, International Policy Network

Kendra Okonski

Former Environment Programme Director, International Policy Network

Kenneth Green

Senior Director, Energy and Natural Resource Studies, Fraser Institute

Leon Louw

Executive Director, Free Market Foundation

Margo Thorning

Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, American Council for Capital Formation

Paul Chesser

Associate Fellow, National Legal and Policy Center

Randall Cerveny

Associate Professor of Geography, Arizona State University

Richard Courtney

Energy and Environment Consultant

Richard Rahn

Chairman, Institute for Global Economic Growth

Robert Murphy

Economist, Institute for Energy Research

Ross McKitrick

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Guelph

Roy Innis

National Chairman and CEO, Congress of Racial Equality

Yuri Izrael

Vice Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Ann McElhinney

Director and Producer, Not Evil Just Wrong

Jim Martin

President, 60 Plus Association

John H. Sununu

President, JHS Associates, Ltd.

Lawrence Solomon

Founder and Managing Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation

Phelim McAleer

Director and Producer, Not Evil Just Wrong

Sherwood B. Idso

President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

Ron Scheberle

Executive Director, American Legislative Exchange Council

Doug Bandow

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Gilbert L. Ross

Former Executive Director, Medical Director, American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)

Henry I. Miller

Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy, Hoover Institution

John McClaughry

Vice President, Etahn Allen Institute

John Stephenson

Director of the Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council

Jonathan Williams

Vice President, Center for State Fiscal Reform, American Legislative Exchange Council

Michael F. Cannon

Director Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute

Randall Holcombe

Robert Higgs

Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Independent Institute

Robert Poole

Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow, Reason Foundation

Tom Giovanetti

President, Institute for Policy Innovation

Alfred Pekarek

Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, St. Cloud State University

Policy Advisor, Legal Affairs.

Gordon Tullock

Alan B. Smith

Senior Fellow, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

David H. Padden

James M. Buchanan

Center for Public Choice, George Mason University

Robert B Ekelund Jr.

Lowder Eminent Scholar, Economics Dept. Auburn University

Stephen A. Moses

Center for Long-Term Care Financing

Maureen Martin

Senior Fellow, Legal Affairs

Ralph Conner

Local Legislation Manager, The Heartland Institute

Benny Peiser

Social Anthropologist.

Bjorn Lomborg

Director, Copenhagen Consensus Centre.

Christopher Landsea

Science and Operations Officer, National Hurricane Center

David Henderson

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

G. Cornelis van Kooten

Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Victoria.

Gordon Swaters

University of Alberta.

Henry Linden

Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Paul Reiter

Professor, Institut Pasteur.

Roger Pielke

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen

Reader in Geography, University of Hull.

Zbigniew Jaworowski

Angela Antonelli

Diane Bast

Executive Editor and Finance Manager

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

Additional experts lists:

Alcohol & Tobacco (2016) ^[155]
Climate (2016) ^[154]
Energy (2016)^[156]
Environment (2016)^[157]
“Global Warming Experts” (2015): [39]
December 2014 Global Warming “Experts” Flyer [40], [41]

The Heartland Institute released a December 2014 flyer titled “It's Time to Debate Global Warming (PDF)” where they listed “58 experts who don't believe global warming is a crisis.” The flyer included many of the most high-profile climate change skeptics listed as “experts” on their website. DeSmog researched those same 58 experts, and has produced a counter-flyer that identifies the extent of peer-reviewed research and background on each. [40], [41]

Senior Fellows

Name

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2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2018

2019

Description

George Clowes

Senior Fellow, Education

James L. Johnston

Senior Fellow, Economic Policy

Richard Dolinar

Senior Fellow

Robert G. Holland

Senior Fellow, Education

Dennis Avery

Senior Vice President & Publisher

Herbert J. Walberg

Senior Fellow, Education

Brad Rodu

Senior Fellow

Craig Idso

Senior Fellow

Paul Fisher

Senior Fellow, Legal Affairs

Ross Kaminsky

Senior Fellow, Finance

S. Fred Singer

Senior Fellow

Bruno Behrend

Senior Fellow

Benjamin Domenech

Senior Fellow

Arthur B. Robinson

Senior Fellow

H. Sterling Burnett

Senior Fellow and Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News

Joseph Bast

Director and Senior Fellow

Anthony Watts

Senior Fellow for Environment and Climate

James Taylor

Senior Fellow, Environment and Energy Policy

Roger Bezdek

Senior Fellow

Alan B. Smith

Senior Fellow, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

Wendell Cox

Wendell Cox, Principal of Wendell Cox Consultancy

Lee Walker

Senior Fellow, Urban Policy

Steven Titch

Independent Policy Analyst

Brian Wesbury

Chief Economist, First Trust Advisors L.P

James M. Taylor

Senior Fellow, Environment and Energy Policy

Greg Scandlen

Senior Fellow, Health Care

Jay Lehr

Science Director

Peter Ferrara

Senior Fellow, Entitlement and Budget Policy

Jeff Judson

Senior Fellow

Robert M. Carter (1942-2016)

Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute

Gregory Conley

Research Fellow

Bette Grande

Research Fellow

Maureen Martin

Senior Fellow, Legal Affairs

Rob Natelson

Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence for The Heartland Institute and the Independence Institute

Frederick D. Palmer

Senior Fellow, Energy and Climate

Horace Cooper

Senior Fellow

David V. Anderson

Senior Fellow, Education

Alexandra (Sandy) Liddy Bourne

Policy Advisor, The Heartland Institute

Don Brown

Senior Fellow, Insurance Policy.

Eli Lehrer

National Director and Vice President.

John Rutledge

Chairman, Rutledge Capital

Conrad Meier

Heartland Institute Staff

Jim Johnston

energy and regulation

Merrill Matthews

Resident Scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation

Thomas Roeser

politics

Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) — 2012

The Heartland Institute sponsors the NIPCC, an “international network of scientists who write and speak out on climate change” and contributes approximately $300,000 a year for the group to work on Climate Change Reconsidered (the NIPCC report), according to the Heartland Institute's 2012 Fundraising Plan (p. 13).

The following individuals are listed in the Heartland Institute's 2012 Proposed Budget, under the “Personnel Budget” for the NIPCC Project:

$/month	Name	Chapter	Institution	Country
$11,600	Craig Idso	Senior Editor	Center for the Study of CO2 & Global Change	USA
$5,000	Fred Singer	Co-Editor	Science and Environmental Policy Project	USA
$1,667	Robert Carter	Co-Editor	James Cook University and Institute for Public Affairs	Australia
$1,000	Madhav Khandekar	1.3 Extreme Events	Environment Canada	Canada
$1,000	Indur Goklany**	2.5 Economics and Policy	U.S. Department of Interior	USA
$1,000	Robert Balling	tentative	Arizona State University	USA
$750	Anthony Lupo	1.4 Climate Models	University of Missouri	USA
$750	Mitch Taylor	2.2 Terrestrial Animals	Lakehead University	Canada
$750	Susan Crockford	2.2 Terrestrial Animals	University of Victoria	Australia
$500	Joe D'Aleo	1.3 Extreme Events	ICECAP	USA
$125	Willie Soon	contributor - paid by review	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	USA
$125	Craig Loehle	contributor - paid by review	National Council for Air and Stream Improvement	USA
$125	David Watkins	contributor - paid by review	Michigan Technological University	USA

** Representative Raúl M. Grijalva called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing (PDF) to probe whether Indur Goklany improperly received payments from the Heartland Institute (including his work on the NRSP Report) while he was working as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Interior Department.

Below is a full list of past NIPCC Climate Change Reconsidered (CCR) contributors (John Mashey also provides a summary on page 36 of his 2012 report “Fake Science, fakesperts, funny finances, free of tax” ): [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [48]

	2008 CCR	2009 CCR	2011 CCR	2013 CCR	2014 CCR	2015 CCR
Joseph Bast	Editor	Editor	Editor	-	-
Diane Carol Bast	Editor	Editor	Editor	Editor	Editor
S.T. Karnick	-	-	Editor	Editor	Editor
Robert Carter	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	Lead Author	Lead Author/Editor	Lead Author/Editor	Author
Craig Idso	Contributor	Lead Author	Lead Author	Lead Author/Editor	Lead Author/Editor	Author
S. Fred Singer	Contributor/Editor	Lead Author	Lead Author	Lead Author/Editor	Lead Author/Editor	Author
Warren Anderson	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
J. Scott Armstrong	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Contributing Author	-
Dennis Avery	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Franco Battaglia	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Piers Corbyn	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Richard Courtney	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Susan Crockford	-	-	Contributor	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Joseph D'Aleo	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	Contributor	Contributing Author	-
Don Easterbrook	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Lead Author	-
Indur Goklany	-	-	Contributor	-	-
Fred Goldberg	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Vincent Gray	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
William Gray	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Kesten Green	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Contributing Author	-
Kenneth Haapala	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
David Hagen	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Klaus Heiss	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Sherwood Idso	-	-	Contributor	Chapter Lead Author	Lead Author/Editor
Zbiginew Jaworowski	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Olavi Karner	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Richard Alan Keen	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Madhav Khandekar	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	Contributor	Chapter Lead Author	Contributing Author/Reviewer
William Kininmonth	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Lead Author	-
Hans Labohm	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Anthony R. Lupo	-	Contributor/Reviewer	Contributor	Chapter Lead Author	-
Howard Maccabee	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Michael H. Mogil	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Christopher Monckton	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Lubos Motl	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Stephan Murgatroyd	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Nicola Scafetta	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Tom Segalstad	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Contributing Author	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Harrison Schmitt	-	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Willie Soon	-	-	Contributor	Chapter Lead Author	-
George H. Taylor	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Mitch Taylor		Contributor/Reviewer	Contributor	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Dick Thoenes	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	-	-
Anton Uriarte	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Gerd Weber	Contributor	Contributor/Reviewer	-	Chapter Reviewer	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Timothy Ball	-	-	-	Chapter Lead Author	-
Willem de Lange	-	-	-	Chapter Lead Author	-
Sebastian Luning	-	-	-	Chapter Lead Author	-
Cliff Ollier	-	-	-	Chapter Lead Author	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Ross McKitrick	-	-	-	Contributing Author	-
Roy Spencer	-	-	-	Contributing Author	-
Joe Bastardi	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Habibullo Abdussamatov	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
David Q. Bowen	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Roy Clark	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Vincent Courtillot	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Christopher Essex	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
David Evans	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Soren Floderus	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Stewart Franks	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Eigil Friis-Christensen	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Laurence Gould	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Howard Hayden	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Martin Hovland	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
James O'Brien	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Garth Paltridge	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Donald Rapp	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Carl Ribbing	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
John Shade	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
Gary Sharp	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Jan-Erik Solheim	-	-	-	Chapter Reviewer	-
David J. Barnes	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Raymond Cloyd	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Weihong Cui	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Kees DeGroot	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Robert G. Dillon	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
John Dale Dunn	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Henrik Ole Ellestad	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Barry Goldman	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Hoese H. Dickson	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Morten Jodal	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Miroslav Kutilek	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Steven W Leavitt	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Howard Maccabee	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Jennifer Marohasy	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Jim Petch	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Robert J. Reginato	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Paul Reiter	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Walter Stark	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
David Stockwell	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Bastow Wilson	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer
Raphael Wust	-	-	-	-	Contributing Author/Reviewer

Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC)

Since 2008, the Heartland Institute has hosted their annual International Conference on Climate Change where dozens of climate change skeptics converge to discuss issues and strategies to oppose climate action:

ICCC1 — March, 2008
ICCC2 — March, 2009
ICCC3 — June, 2009
ICCC4 — May, 2010
ICCC5 — October, 2010
ICCC6 — June, 2011
ICCC7 — May, 2012
ICCC8 — Nov - Dec, 2012
ICCC9 — July, 2014
ICCC10 — June, 2015
ICCC11 — Dec, 2015
ICCC12 — Mar, 2017
ICCC13 — Nov, 2018

ICCC1
Date: March 2-4, 2008
Location: New York

The conference, titled “Global Warming: Truth or Swindle,” was described as a “gathering of skeptics.” Heartland contends that skeptics lack a “platform from which they can be heard,” as “Their voices have been drowned out by publicity built upon the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an entity with an agenda to build support for the theory of man-made catastrophic global warming.”

According to conference's invitation letter, “The purpose of the conference is to generate international media attention to the fact that many scientists believe forecasts of rapid warming and catastrophic events are not supported by sound science, and that expensive campaigns to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not necessary or cost-effective.” (emphasis added).

RealClimate reported on the conference and concluded it “is not aimed at understanding, it is a PR event aimed at generating media reports.” [49]

ICCC1 Speakers [50]. [130]

ICCC1 Cosponsors [50], [51]

Alternate Solutions Institute
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Tax Reform
Asociación de Consumidores Libres
Association for Liberal Thinking
Business & Media Institute
Carbon Sense Coalition
Cascade Policy Institute
Cathay Institute for Public Affairs
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Center of the American Experiment
Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo
Centro de Investigaciones de Instituciones y Mercados de Argentina
Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Congress of Racial Equality
Discovery Institute
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
Economic Thinking - E Pluribus Unum Films
European Center for Economic Growth
Free Enterprise Action Fund
Free Market Foundation
Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Frontiers of Freedom Institute
Fundación Atlas 1853
George C. Marshall Institute
Hayek Institut
Institut für Unternehmerische Freiheit
Institute of Public Affairs
Instituto de Libre Empresa
Instituto Liberdade
International Climate Science Coalition
International Policy Network
Instituto Bruno Leoni
John Locke Foundation
JunkScience.com
Liberty Institute
Lion Rock Institute
Minimal Government Institute
National Center for Policy Analysis
New Zealand Business Roundtable
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Pacific Research Institute
Science & Environmental Policy Project
Science & Public Policy Institute
Sovereignty International, Inc.
The Idea Channel
The Independent Institute

ICCC2
Date: March 8-10, 2009
Location New York

DeSmogBlog researched the funding behind Heartland's Second International Conference on Climate Change and found that sponsor organizations had received over $47 million in funding from energy companies and right-wing foundations, with 78% of that total coming from Scaife Family foundations:

ExxonMobil (1998-2006):              $6,199,000
Koch Foundations (1986-2006):      $4,438,920
Scaife Foundations (1985-2006):     $36,868,640

Grand Total:                              $47,506,560

DeSmogBlog reported on the conference here.

ICCC2 Speakers [52], [129]

ICCC2 Cosponsors [53]

ICCC3
Date: June 2, 2009
Location: Washington, DC

Details:

The conference's theme was “Climate Change: Scientific Debate and Economic Analysis,” to reflect Heartland's belief that that “scientific debate is not over.” The conference set out to “call attention to widespread dissent to the asserted 'consensus' on various aspects of climate change and global warming.” [54]

According to the Heartland Institute, “The purpose of the event is to expose Congressional staff and journalists to leading scientists and economists in the nation's capital. Senators and Representatives will be invited to speak side-by-side with leading scientists and economists. Allied organizations have been invited to be cosponsors, to help supply speakers and promote the event to their members and supporters.” [55]

ICCC3 Speakers [56]

ICCC3 Cosponsors [57]

Accuracy In Media
African Center for Advocacy and Human Development
Alternate Solutions Institute
Americans For Prosperity
American Policy Center
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Australian Libertarian Society
Ayn Rand Institute
Beacon Hill Institute
The Carbon Sense Coalition
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
The Climate Sceptics
Climate Strategies Watch
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Doctors For Disaster Preparedness
Economic Thinking/E Pluribus Unum Films
Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie
Free To Choose Network
Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
George C. Marshall Institute
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
The Heritage Foundation
The Hispanic Leadership Fund
Iceagenow.org
International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project
Initiative for Public Policy Analysis
Institute for Free Enterprise
Institute for Liberty
Instituto De Libre Empresa
Instituto Juan De Mariana
Instituto Liberadade
International Climate Science Coalition
Instituto Bruno Leoni
Liberales Institut
Minimal Government Thinkers
New Zealand Centre for Policy Research
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Physicians For Civil Defense
Public Interest Institute
Science and Environmental Policy Project
Science and Public Policy Institute
Sovereignty International
Young America's Foundation

ICCC4
Date: May 16-18, 2010
Location: Chicago, IL

The conference's theme was “Reconsidering the Science and Economics,” and its purpose was “to build momentum and public awareness of the global warming 'realism' movement.” [196]

DeSmogBlog concluded 19 of the 65 sponsors (including Heartland itself) had received a total of over $40 million in funding since 1985 from ExxonMobil (who funded 13 of the organizations), and/or Koch Industries family foundations (funded 10 organizations) and/or the Scaife family foundations (funded 10 organizations). [197]

Summary:

ExxonMobil (1998-2008):	$6,588,250	($389,250 more than reported in 2009)
Koch Foundations (1985-2008):	$17,572,210	($13,133,290 more than reported in 2009)
Scaife Family Foundations (1985-2008):	$16,352,000	($20,516,640 less than reported in 2009)*
Total Funding 1985-2008:	$40,512,460

*The Heritage Foundation sponsored the 2009 conference and is notably absent from sponsoring the 2010 ICCC. According to archived funding information at Media Matters, Heritage has received $23,096,640 from Scaife, $2,417,000 from Koch and $565,000 from Exxon between 1998 and 2006.

ICCC4 Speakers [58]

Joseph Bast
George F. Allen
Craig D. Idso
Robert Ferguson
Gary Sharp
David Douglass
William M. Gray
A.S. Denning
Howard Hayden
Bob Carter
Fred Goldberg
Don J. Easterbrook
Willie Soon
Habibullo Abdussamatov
Ben Lieberman
Tam Hunt
Robert J. Michaels
Patrick Michaels
Gabriel Calzada
Carlo Stagnaro
David G. Tuerck
Mike Noel
Pamela Gorman
Michael Jungbauer
Christopher C. Horner
Eigil Friis-Christensen
Marc Morano
James Inhofe
Richard Lindzen
Craig Loehle
James Delingpole
Joseph D'Aleo
S. Fred Singer
Ross McKitrick
Indur Goklany
Howard Maccabee
Anthony Watts
Paul C. Knappenberger
John Humphreys
Cory Bernardi
Joseph Clark
Hans Labohm
Myron Ebell
Llaurence I. Gould
Garth W. Paltridge
Dan Miller
Jay H. Lehr
Roy W. Spencer
Nils-Axel Morner
Tom V. Segalstad
George J. Kukla
Madhav Khandekar
H. Leighton Steward
Helen Roe
Tim Patterson
Willis Eschenbach
Chris Horner
William Kininmonth
Victor M. Velasco Herrera
Ian Plimer
Andreas Prokoph
Art Horn
Graeme Swindles
Alan Moran
Bryan Leyland
Jim Johnston
Chris de Freitas
Gerald E. Marsh
Andrei Illarionov
Walter Cunningham
Todd Wynn
Avril Terri Jackson
E. Calvin Beisner
J. Scott Armstrong
Kesten C. Green
Keith Lockitch
James M. Taylor
Julian Morris
Christopher Monckton
Arthur Robinson
Harrison Schmitt
Alan Carlin
Stephen McIntyre

ICCC4 Cosponsors [58]

African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development
Alternate Solutions Institute
American Conservative Union
American Policy Center
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Tax Reform
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Australian Libertarian Society
Austrian Economics Center
Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
Carbon Sense Coalition
Cascade Policy Institute
Cathay Institute for Public Affairs
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Centro de Investigaciones de Instituciones y Mercados de Argentina
Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy
Climate Sceptics Party
Climate Science Coalition of America
Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
European Coalition for Economic Growth
Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie
Foundation for Economic Thinking
Free To Choose Network
Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
FreedomWorks
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
Hayek Institut
Hispanic Leadership Fund
Iceagenow.com
ICECAP
Illinois Policy Institute
The Independent Institute
Initiative for Public Policy Analysis
Institute for Free Enterprise
Institute of Public Affairs
Instituto Juan de Mariana
Instituto Liberdade
Instituto De Libre Empresa
International Climate Science Coalition
Instituto Bruno Leoni
Junkscience.com
The Lavoisier Group
The Leadership Institute
Liberales Institut
Liberty Institute
Lincoln Legal Foundation
John Locke Foundation
Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
George C. Marshall Institute
Media Research Center
Minimal Government Thinkers, Inc.
National Center for Public Policy Research
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Science & Environmental Policy Project
Science and Public Policy Institute
Sovereignty International
Tennessee Center for Policy Research
TS August

ICCC5
Date: October 1, 2010
Location: Sydney, Australia

A “seminar on climate change” that took place following the Pacific Rim Policy Exchange, described as “two days of workshops and brainstorming with free market advocates from the Pacific Rim.” [59]

See the draft agenda (PDF). Videos of the speakers are available at the ICCC website. [60]

Speakers [61]

Jim Lakely
Sen. Cory Bernardi
Chris de Freitas
Bob Carter
David Evans
Barun S. Mitra
Joanne Nova
Alan Moran
Barry Brill

Cosponsors [141], [123]

Acton Institute
Americans for Tax Reform
Institute of Public Affairs
Property Rights Alliance
World Taxpayer's Association

ICCC6
Date: June 30-July 1, 2011
Location: Washington, DC

The theme of the conference was “Restoring the Scientific Method,” and based on the premise that “claims of scientific certainty and predictions of climate catastrophes are based on 'post-normal science,' which substitutes claims of consensus for the scientific method.”

DeSmogBlog concluded that 17 of the 43 sponsors of the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, including the Heartland Institute itself, had collectively received over $46 million from either Scaife Foundations, Koch Foundations, or ExxonMobil:

Scaife Foundations (1998-2010):	$28,557,000	($12,205,000 more than 2010*)
Koch Foundations (1998-2009):	$11,330,980	($6,241,230 less than 2010)
ExxonMobil (1998-2010):	$6,276,900	($311,350 less than 2010)

*Total Funding (1998-2010):*	$46,164,880

*The Heritage Foundation, notably absent from the 2010 ICCC, is a sponsor again for the 2011 ICCC. Heritage has received $14,873,571 from industry sources.

ICCC6 Speakers [62]

ICCC6 Cosponsors [62]

The 60 Plus Association
Accuracy in Media
African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development
Alternate Solutions Institute
American Energy Freedom Center
American Policy Center
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Tax Reform
American Tradition Institute
Australian Libertarian Society
Ayn Rand Institute
Business and Media Institute
Cascade Policy Institute
Cathay Institute for Public Affairs
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Centro de Investigaciones de Instituciones Mercados de Argentina (CIIMA-ESEADE)
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Energy Makes America Great Inc.
Foundation for Economic Education
Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
The Heritage Foundation
IceAgeNow.com
The Independent Institute
The Independent Women’s Forum
Institute for Liberty
Instituto de Libre Empresa
Instituto Liberdade
International Climate Science Coalition
Instituto Bruno Leoni
The Lavoisier Group
Liberty Institute
Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
George C. Marshall Institute
Media Research Center
National Center for Policy Analysis
Power for USA
Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment, Northern Virginia Chapter
Science and Environmental Policy Project
Science and Public Policy Institute
TSAugust

ICCC7
Date: May 21 - 23, 2012
Location: Chicago, Illinois

The Heartland Institute’s Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7) was designed to follow the NATO Summit taking place in Chicago from May 19 to 21.

The theme of ICCC7 is “Real Science, Real Choices.” Heartland reports it will consist of “concurrent panel sessions exploring what real climate science is telling us about the causes and consequences of climate change, and the real consequences of choices being made based on the current perceptions of the state of climate science.”

DeSmogBlog researched co-sponsors behind the conference and discovered that they had received a total of over $67 Million from ExxonMobil, Koch, and Scaife family foundations:

ExxonMobil (1998-2010): $7,312,500
Koch Foundations (1986-2010): $14,391,975
Scaife Foundations (1985-2010): $45,337,640

Grand Total: $67,042,115

Heartland gives a passing mention to the “global warming scandal” where Peter Gleick obtained Heartland's documents revealing some of its plans and posting them online. Heartland frames the event as “Fakegate,” given the possibility that one of the documents was faked. However, they continue to redirect the public's eye away from the information revealed from authentic documents also released. [114]

During Joseph Bast's closing remarks for the conference, he suggested that the group no longer plans to hold future conferences as it is struggling financially after losing many of its sponsors following their unsuccessful billboard campaign.

Speakers [115]

Cosponsors [63], [122]

Sponsor	Sponsorship Level
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow	Gold
Illinois Coal Association	Gold
Leadership Institute	Gold
Alternate Solutions Institute	Silver
Americans for Tax Reform	Silver
Australian Libertarian Society	Silver
Beacon Hill Institute	Silver
Carbon Sense Coalition	Silver
Free To Choose Network	Silver
Ice Age Now	Silver
Independent Institute	Silver
Instituto Liberdade	Silver
International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP)	Silver
Junk Science	Silver
Power for USA	Silver
Reason Foundation	Silver
Science and Environmental Policy Project	Silver
TS August	Silver
Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and the Environment	Silver
Cathay Institute for Public Affairs	Silver
60 Plus Association	Silver
Acton Institute
African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development
American Conservative Union
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
American Tradition Institute
Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance
Austrian Economics Center
Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
Berlin Manhattan Institute for Free Enterprise
Capital Research Center
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Center for Industrial Progress
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy
Climate Realists
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
Economic Thinking
Energy Makes America Great, Inc.
European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE)
Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Frontiers of Freedom
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
Heritage Foundation
Institute for Liberty
Institute for Private Enterprise
International Climate Science Coalition
Lavoisier Group
Liberty Institute
John Locke Foundation
Manhattan Project
George C. Marshall Institute
Media Research Center
National Center for Policy Analysis
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Science and Public Policy Institute

ICCC8
Date: November 30 - December 1, 2012
Location: Munich, Germany

The Heartland Institute partners with the Germany-based skeptic organization EIKE (European Institute for Climate and Energy) to host a combination event of the Heartland Institute's Eight International Conference on Climate Change, and EIKE's the Fifth International Conference on Climate and Energy. [64]

“This conference is more proof, if any were needed, that important issues surrounding the causes, extent, and consequences of climate change remain unresolved in the scientific community,” said Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast.

“The scientific evidence grows stronger each day that we are not facing a global warming crisis, and I look forward to presenting another conference where the scientists themselves will explain the evidence,” said Heartland Senior Fellow James M. Taylor.

ICCC8 Speakers [65], [64]

ICCC8 Sponsors [65]

European Institute for Climate and Energy

ICCC9
Date: July 7 - 9, 2014
Location: Las Vegas Nevada, USA

DeSmogBlog Reported on the Heartland Institute's Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, describing the event's revival despite Joseph Bast's previous declaration that he had “no plans to do another ICCC” after losing funding from many corporate sponsors due to backlash from the unabomber billboard campaign. In order to boost attendance, Heartland joined with the libertarian FreedomFest event. [66], [67], [68]

Heartland ICCC9 speakers included the following, according to the Heartland Institute's website. Media Matters also covered the speakers in a piece titled “Climate Denial Goes to Vegas.” [70], [71]

Co-sponsors to the Heartland Institute's Ninth International Conference on Climate Change included the following: [69]

America's Energy Future
Australian Taxpayers' Alliance
Ayn Rand Institute
Carbon Sense Coalition
Center for Industrial Progress
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Colderside.com
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Energy Makes America Great, Inc.
Freedomfest
George C. Marshall Institute
Heritage Foundation
Hubbard Broadcasting Inc.
Illinois Coal Association
International Climate Science Coalition
Liberty Coin Service
Media Research Center
Nanoland
NPK Co2
Power for USA
Science & Environmental Policy Project
Science & Public Policy Institute
The Leadership Institute
To Kill an Error
Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and the Environment

ICCC10
Date: July 7 - 9, 2015
Location: Washington DC, USA

DeSmogBlog UK reported on the speakers and sponsors behind Heartland's ICCC10. DeSmogBlog UK's editor Brendan Montague was refused entry into the event and had his media credentials withdrawn.

Gene Koprowski, director of marketing, said he “refused to be drawn into a philosophical debate” when asked whether a think tank claiming to champion personal liberty and press freedom should begin blacklisting members of the media. [72]

The Heartland Institute describes the conference as coving the following “important questions”: [73]

Is it time for Congress to take a fresh look at climate science and examine the economic impacts of past and current laws.
Is it time for Congress to explore better science-based policies for energy and the environment?
In short: Isn’t it time to start over on the question of global warming?

Keynote Speakers [74]

Panelists [74]

J. Scott Armstrong
Tim Ball
Michael Bastasch
Charles Battig
Carlyle Begay
William Briggs
Robert “Bob” Carter
John Coleman
Walter Cunningham
Hal Doiron
Paul Driessen
James Enstrom
Deke Forbes
Myron Ebell
Bette Grande
Tom Harris
Kathleen Hartnett White
Howard Hayden
Craig Idso
David Kreutzer
David Legates
Jay Lehr
Marlo Lewis
Christopher Monckton
Amanda Maxham
Patrick Michaels
Mark Mills
Alan Moran
Marc Morano
Wolfgang Muller
Isaac Orr
Tiffany Roberts
S. Fred Singer
Willie Soon
Roy Spencer
James Taylor
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Anthony Watts
Thomas Wysmuller
S. Stanley Young
Benjamin Zycher
Michael Mann (Vs. Mark Steyn)

Moderators [74]

Cosponsors [121]

Reality News Media Group
National Association of Scholars
CFACT
Carbon Sense Coalition
The Heritage Foundation
John Locke Foundation
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Media Research Center
Colderside.com
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Leadership Institute
The American Spectator
CO2 Science
Pacific Research Institute
Northern Virginia Chapter of SEEE
International Climate Science Coalition
EIKE
Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance
Science & Environmental Policy Project
Ayn Rand Institute

ICCC11
Date: December 11 - 12, 2015
Location: Essen, Germany

The Heartland Institute co-sponsored the Eleventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC11) with the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). According to the Heartland Institute's event description, ICCC11 was designed to follow up the Heartland Institute's trip to Paris for the United Nations' COP-21:

“We brought a needed discussion to COP-21 in Paris by putting science before ideology,” said Jim Lakely, director of communications at The Heartland Institute. “That conversation continues, in longer form, with another great program with world-renowned scientists and policy experts in Essen. We're proud to co-host this conference with our friends at EIKE.”[135]

Speakers: [136], [137]

Armin Huke
Charles-Beat Blankart
Christopher Monckton
Dieter Ameling
Eigil Friis-Christensen
Friedrich-Karl Ewert
Gernot Patzelt
Haus der Technik
Henrik Svensmark
Holger Thuss
Horst Lüdecke
Isaac Orr
James M. Taylor
Klaus Eckart Puls
Michael Limburg
Nir Shaviv
Susan Crockford
Tom V. Segelstad
Willie Soon
Wolfgang Müller

ICCC12

Date: March 23 - 24, 2017
Location: Washington, DC.

The Heartland Institute's Twelfth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC12) was held in Washington, DC. with the theme of “Resetting Climate Policy.” The Washington Post reported that the gathering was attended by the Republican mega donors Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer. On the first day of the conference, they joined Joseph Bast for the lunch keynote speech where “They listened intently as Patrick J. Michaels, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for the Study of Science, argued that the Obama administration erred in finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health,” reported the Post. [168], [169]

Mother Jones also reported on the conference, noting that the mood was “triumphant and hopeful” in the wake of Trump's presidency and his plans to roll back EPA regulations. [170]

“We’ve been at this for 33 years. We have a lot of people in our network,” Joseph Bast told Mother Jones, “and many of these people are now in this new administration.” Transition staff and new appointees in the Trump administration “occasionally ask us for advice and names of people,” he added. [170]

Bast said that rescinding the EPA's endangerment finding on CO2 was the “number one” priority under Trump's EPA. [170]

Speakers at ICCC12, either listed on Heartland's initial conference plan or included in Heartland's video coverage of the event, included the following: [171], [172]

Aaron Stover
Becky Norton Dunlop
Benjamin Zycher
Bette Grande
Christopher Monckton
Craig Idso
Craig Rucker
Daniel Sutter
Dennis Avery
Dennis Hedke
Don Easterbrook
E. Calvin Beisner
H. Sterling Burnett
Indur Goklany
Isaac Orr
J. Scott Armstrong
James Enstrom
James Inhofe
James Taylor
Jay Lehr
Jim Lakely
John Barrasso
John Dale Dunn
John Nothdurft
Joseph Bast
Kevin Dayaratna
Lamar Smith
Mary Hutzler
Myron Ebell
Patrick Michaels
Paul Driessen
Randy Simmons
Richard Trzupek
Robert Mendelsohn
Roger Bezdek
Roger Helmer
Ross Mckitrick
S. Fred Singer
S.T. Karnick
Steve Goreham
Steven J. Milloy
Susan Crockford
Thomas Wysmuller
Timothy Terrell
Walter Cunningham
William Happer
Willie Soon

November 23 – 24, 2018

EIKE hosted its 12th International Conference on Climate and Energy (12. Internationale Klima- und Energiekonferenz), also billed as the Heartland Institute's 13th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC13). The Heartland Institute's sponsorship of the event was also noted in a press release by Heartland's director of communications Jim Lakely and amplified by the State Policy Network. Video coverage of the event (see day 1) was streamed via EIKE's YouTube channel. [236], [237]

Speakers included:

Holger Thuss
James Taylor
Helmut Alt
Henri Masson
Gernot Patzelt
Maria da Assunção Araújo
Hermann Harde'
Camille Veyres
Nils-Axel Mörner
Joanne Nova
Horst Lüdecke
Nicola Scafetta
Henrik Svensmark
Harald Ynderstadt
Michael Limburg
Stefan Kröpelin
Michael Schnell
Friedrich-Karl Ewert
K. Nown
Günter Ederer
Wolfgang Müller
Thomas Wysmuller

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April 6, 2020

The Heartland Institute, represented by James Taylor, was signatory to an American Energy Alliance letter to President Donald Trump supporting the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule which would scrap federal fuel economy mandates under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. [270]

Describing CAFE, the letter contends: “Those families and individuals who prefer or need trucks, SUVs, and crossovers pay more to subsidize those who buy smaller vehicles or electric vehicles under the existing mandate. This significant, needless, and unjust cost is a very real regressive tax on American families that has made our country worse off.” [270]

March 6, 2020

E&E News reported the Heartland Institute was laying off staff in what Heartland described as a “reorganization. In a statement, Heartland said it “conducted layoffs of some full- and part-time staff on Friday, March 6.” [265]

“This reduction in personnel and reorganization will make Heartland more efficient and focused,” wrote Jim Lakely, Heartland's communications director. [265]

“It will put us in a stronger financial position to continue advocating for personal freedom, as well as to continue our important role in educating the public and public officials about climate alarmism, and focus on the science and the significant threat alarmism poses to our economy,” he said. [265]

However, Huffpost earlier reported the layoffs were due to financial difficulties. Huffpost reviewed a screenshot of a text message between Heartland events coordinator Nikki Comerford and a former colleague. [266]

“Heartland is broke,” Comerford reportedly wrote in the message. “Frank Lasee spent all of our money in six months including the savings,” she wrote in a text. “They had to lay off more than half the staff today and more coming. What an asshole.”

Heartland confirmed it had made layoffs in a March 8 press release. Lasée did not respond to an initial request-for-comment from Huffpost, however two former employees confirmed the details. [267]

Shortly after, on March 17, 2020, E&E News reported Heartland's president Frank Lasée was being ousted from his position as president. “He's being kicked out,” one source said. [269]

February 10, 2020

The Heartland Institute opposed the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a program designed to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector. [263]

“It is the opinion of The Heartland Institute that this program will penalize people, especially low-income individuals, for simply living their lives, all in the attempt to decrease global temperatures by an amount so miniscule as to be environmentally meaningless,” wrote Heartland policy analyst Tim Benson. “cap-and-trade programs such as TCI and its sister program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), do little to reduce carbon dioxide emissions,” he claimed. [263]

Heartland cites a coalition letter “from many of our esteemed sister think tanks” describing TCI as a “poorly conceived, fundamentally regressive, and economically damaging proposal.” [264]

Those think tanks include Americans for Tax Reform, signed by Grover G. Norquist; the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, signed by its CEO Mike Stenhouse; State Policy Network member, the Maryland Public Policy Institute; Adam Brandon, CEO of FreedomWorks; and Thomas J. Pyle, representing the Institute for Economic Research. [264]

February 2, 2020

Research by CORRECTIV and Frontal21 in Germany uncovered how the Heartland Institute was coordinating with climate change denial groups in Germany including the European Institute on Climate and Energy (EIKE). During the undercover investigation, reported on in German and also translated to English, reporters spoke with James Taylor who revealed some of Heartland's strategies. The investigation took place in December 2019. [261], [262]

Reporters posed as PR consultants for a Berlin-based strategic communication agency with interest in finding potential donors from Germany in the automotive and energy sectors. Taylor responded later with a written offer “something like a strategy document for a PR campaign in Germany: A campaign that the public will not recognize for what it really is, making it even more effective.” with a goal of “No more prohibitive climate laws. Diesel instead of electric cars, energy from coal instead of wind turbines, industry growth instead of environmental protection.” [261], [262]

The event was a “Climate Reality Forum” attended by climate change deniers such as William Happer, Wolfgang Müller of EIKE, and Christopher Monckton among others. [261], [262]

In a private interview, James Taylor outlined how best to provide donations. He brought DonorsTrust as one of several US groups best used to keep donations anonymous. [261], [262]

Taylor later spoke of the relationship between Heartland and EIKE. He said that Heartland gave a small sum of money to help fund the EIKE conference in late November. [261], [262]

In a follow-up call between the reporter posing as an interested party ready to do business with Heartland, and Taylor, the reporter asked whether content could be bought if he were a donor to Heartland. Taylor highlighted a 19-year-old Youtuber from Germany as a promising social media strategy. When asked if a customer would be able to have their content appear in her videos, Taylor hesitated “but doesn’t say no.” [261], [262]

“Of course, she would have to agree with and feel comfortable with what is going to be said. And he’s pretty sure that everyone involved wants the same thing.

Mathias: 'Perhaps we could agree on certain buzzwords. Disseminate certain information.'

Taylor: 'Absolutely. Key points, keywords, the way to present something.'

Content in exchange for money. It’s like a deal in the advertising industry. The only difference is that the content is political.”

When Taylor sent a formal funding proposal in several hours, it outlined a plan for a possible campaign in Germany. “He describes German climate policy as 'unwise'. Conventional power plants could be closed and replaced by expensive, unreliable wind turbine systems. Diesel vehicles could be banned.” [261], [262]

“These restrictive environmental programs are largely unnecessary,” Taylor wrote. [261], [262]

Instead, the Heartland Institute wants to draw attention to projects that “raise German living standards through common-sense environmental stewardship” [261], [262]

“For climate change deniers, this means one thing: As few environmental protection measures as possible,” the article summarizes. [261], [262]

While there was no explicit mention of EIKE, Taylor said he “works closely with German partners whose ideas are consistently cited by the AfD in the Bundestag” and that Heartland would “proactively explore opportunities to galvanize our friends and allies to advocate in conjunction with our Germany Environmental Issues project.” [261], [262]

Taylor then reiterated Donors Trust as a funding vehicle, as well as the National Philanthropic Trust. “Donors fund an account with the organization and then direct the organization how it would like to distribute the funds,” Taylor noted. [261]

German media outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on the story on March 9, 2020. DW noted how Heartland had reportedly worked closely with the Trump Administration, according to James Taylor's conversation with the undercover journalists. DW also outlined how Heartland has historically made major impacts on climate policy in places such as Australia. [268]

Australian scientist, author and climate analyst Ketan Joshi also commented on the rise of Heartland's “anti-Greta” Naomi Seibt, whose YouTube influence was advertised to the undercover journalists. [268]

“It's not about the science,” said Joshi. “It's about instilling doubt, it's about making people distrust information that they receive — even if it's from a trustworthy source.” [268]

January 13, 2020

Heartland Senior Fellow Fred Palmer published an article at the coal mining industry publication CoalZoom describing a plan to form a new group called “Saving US Coal.” The Saving US Coal Campaign is a partnership between CoalZoom and Craig Idso's Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSCDGC/CO2 Science) with donations being funneled through CSCDGC. [257], [259], [260]

“'Saving US Coal' has been created to be the vehicle for turning the tide for the full acceptance of coal in the US energy market by undertaking a campaign to repeal CO2 Endangerment at EPA. That requires a compelling EPA filing, of course, one that proves the benign and beneficial nature of more CO2 in the air based on the incredible work that Craig Idso has carried on for his Dad, Sherwood Idso and mentor, Sylvan Wittwer. However, it also requires creation of a coal coalition, like the Climate council quoted above, and the make-up of that coalition can be learned from coal’s past,” Palmer wrote. [257]

He envisions the group to be a modern equivalent to CEED (the Center for Energy and Economic Development), a coal industry group created to fight against CO2 emissions standards. CEED later merged with another group to form what is now known as the American Coalition for Coal Coal Electricity (ACCCE). As Palmer described it: [257]

“In 1992, CEED was formed to meet the challenge to coal plants due to coal combustion and its CO2 profile and engage at the state level.”

… .

“CEED was successful in the 90s and the approach used then can inform for today. Coal's challenge today at the state level is much more serious than it was in 1992, for the simple reason that the great investor owned utilities in CEED have switched sides and they own the regulated coal plants. But the CEED model never depended on the nature of CEED's members, it depended and depends on defending CO2 in defense of Coal. 'Saving US Coal' is the only entity that can do this today and its leaders were engaged directly in the 90s with CEED and succeeding years. 'Saving US Coal' can perform the same function today as CEED did then in a virtual way.” [257]

Palmer envisions CO2 proponent Craig Idso taking a key role in the new group by promoting benefits of CO2:

“Once filed at EPA, 'Saving US Coal' will engage virtually at the state level with regulators directly and through NARUC to educate on the benefits of CO2 to the biosphere and the human environment. At the same time Craig will develop additional, original research showing the truth of CO2 which will be distributed as generated to the regulators. By doing so, coal suppliers can then engage directly with the regulators with challenges to the announced closures; rep-opening previous announcements where the plants are still operating is not out of the question.” [257]

He also makes recommendations on coal industry groups that could be encouraged to join the pro-coal coalition: [257]

“Today, there are groups sitting right in front of us and ready to go in coalition, I believe. These include:

Count on Coal through NMA

Friends of Coal in West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania

RMCMI in Colorado

The American Coal Council

The state coal associations, a very powerful and overlooked resource

Trade press”

Palmer first joined CoalZoom along with Craig Idso, in coordination with Bill Reid, in December 2019 to focus on the initiative with “the ultimate deliverable: repealing the EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding highlighting coal use as the vehicle and Champion that it is and will be.” [258]

December 3, 2019

Heartland co-sponsored a rebuttal to the United Nations’ COP25 climate summit in Madrid. The event, titled “Rebutting the United Nations’ Climate Delusion,” was held in collaboration with the CO2 Coalition, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). Deniers of consensus climate science in attendance included William Happer, EIKE’s Wolfgang Müller, Anthony Watts, Tom Harris, Stanley Goldenberg, and Christopher Monckton. [253]

Heartland’s James Taylor described the event as a “climate reality forum,” and said: [253]

“Good news isn’t bad news. […] The evidence for a climate crisis simply doesn’t hold up. And that is not about attacking science, as many people would lead you to believe. It’s performing science, it’s advancing science. And again the news is good news, and that’s excellent for humanity, it’s excellent for people around the world, who would like to escape poverty and not be held down by energy restrictions imposed by the United Nations and national governments.” [253]

William Happer, a former member of President Trump’s National Security Council, opened his presentation with:

“We are here under false pretenses, wasting our time talking about a non-existent climate emergency. And It's hard to understand how much further the shrillness can go, as this started out as global warming, then it was climate change or global weirding, now it is climate crisis and climate emergency, what next, but stick around, it will happen. I hope sooner or later enough people recognize the phoniness of this bizarre environmental cult and bring it to an end.” [253]

October 4, 2019

The Heartland Institute held its 35^th anniversary dinner with a theme “Stopping Socialism, Increasing Freedom.” [252]

Media personality Glenn Beck was awarded the Heartland Liberty Prize for 2019. According to Heartland’s interpretation of Beck’s speech, he said Thomas Jefferson “tried to but was unable to free his slaves because he was in debt and slaves were considered property.” [252]

Beck went on to suggest Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was essentially a treatise on Eugenics: [252]

“Beck emphasized the words ‘favored races,’ noting correctly that Darwin’s book increased the popularity and gave an academic legitimacy to the evil of eugenics, which would be embraced by ‘progressives’ in the early 20th century,” Nancy Thorner wrote at the Heartland Institute’s blog. [252]

Then-Heartland-president Frank Lasée said in his opening remarks that the discourse surrounding climate change was “green on the outside and red on the inside.” [252]

“The issue is being used by the other side to control every aspect of our lives, as a means to establish Socialism,” he said. “It’s impossible to reach people with closed minds, but we can get the misinformed and uninformed to listen. […] “We are in a battle with evil people who want to have government control our lives.” [252]

September 30, 2019

Heartland published a commentary by Tim Benson in which Benson criticized Minnesota’s plan to adopt California’s auto emissions standards. Citing a 2018 study by the Manhattan Institute, Benson claimed that greater adoption of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) would result in increased pollution and environmental costs, as well as more traffic fatalities. While conceding that the adoption of low- and zero-emission standards would reduce atmospheric CO2, Benson said that the reduction “will have no measurable impact on world climate and thus no economic value.” [251]

September 23, 2019

The Heartland Institute hosted a “climate debate” to coincide with a UN Climate Action Summit taking place in New York. The event was chaired by former Fox News host John Stossel and speakers included Patrick Michaels, David Legates and Willie Soon. [250]

The event was live-streamed to coincide with the UN’s Climate Summit and was announced with the tag line: “It's time for both sides to make the case: What is happening to our climate and what can we do about it?” [250]

Notable quotes from the panel included:

Patrick Michaels: “What we have is a community that is extremely conformist. And certainly the pressures of monopoly funding provided by the federal government for essentially only one side of the issue will ensure that there’s a consensus. And someday something is going to happen to this and 97% of all scientists concerned are going to believe something else.” [250]

David Legates: “Most governments want to keep control, and most governments get bigger and bigger over time. So in this case, this is one easy way of getting bigger, is to have sort of that H.L. Mencken hobgoblin that always comes up in front of you. And carbon dioxide becomes that molecule by which we can take control of your lives, of your efforts, and everything that goes on.” [250]

Willie Soon: “I’m unable to find out what the carbon dioxide is doing to the atmosphere. It is increasing, but it’s not causing any warming.” [250]

“My message to all of them is that please don't cry. I mean, I'll hold your hand and sing lullabies to you. By 2030 I'll still be here. Please don't panic. There's no such thing as climate catastrophe, these people are talking nonsense. It's unbelievable that we have to answer all this kind of craziness.” [250]

“Carbon dioxide is the greatest gift on planet earth. Put it this way, if we can release more of it, we should have a whole lot more of it, as simple as that. Because according to the satellite data, I mean, we've been greening the planet, in a very, very nice way, in a sense, because the planet is a lot greener, the plants are using much more efficient in terms of water, require a lot less use of water. So a drought region becoming green, even in desert, a desert area. These are overall benefits, overall positive effects on the plants, as far as we can tell […] the impact on the temperature, we are unable to find it. I tell you that I've been studying this topic very carefully, only wanting to find a result on the impact of carbon dioxide on temperature, let's say. I really cannot find [it] after 30 years.” [250]

August 26, 2019

The Heartland Institute live-streamed a rebuttal to the UN’s 68^th Civil Society Sustainability Conference, which was being held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Heartland’s panel discussion was headlined by James Taylor and featured talks by Richard Keen, Howard Hayden, and Paul Dreissen, among others. [249]

According to the live-stream’s YouTube description, the event was organized to “show how the collectivist climate and sustainability programs promoted by the U.N. would cause more harm than good, especially for the world’s poorest and most disenfranchised people.” [249]

Excerpts from the broadcast included:

James Taylor: “What we see is that carbon dioxide emissions and a modestly warming planet are benefitting the human condition. […] For some reason, the media have gone into the argument that anything that’s warmer is bad. I mean, why? Why should warmer temperatures be badder than colder temperatures? (sic) […]
Twenty times more people die from cold temperatures than from warm or hot temperatures.” [249]

Richard Keen: “So enjoy the climate while it lasts and make enough CO2 to feed a tree, which is what CO2 does. It helps plant life and increases crops.” [249]

Howard Hayden: “Now, the good stuff. Get rid of these utopian delusions. There is so much coal available that nobody worries about running out for at least hundreds of years. Now, hundreds of years is a short time compared to that of civilization, but they don't even look for coal because nobody even looks for it anymore. There's enough natural gas in methane clathrates on the continental shelf to last for at least thousands of years. There’s enough uranium to last until the sun turns into a red giant and there's even more thorium. There's no shortage of energy and there never will be. What we lack is the will to use it and the freedom to use it.” [249]

Paul Driessen: “The world cannot afford to let delusion, dishonesty, and ideology drive public policies that will determine our future jobs, prosperity, living conditions and civilization. […] Those policies are unjust, inhumane, and eco-imperialistic and lethal. They can no longer be tolerated. And in fact, I'll go a step further, and I don't say this lightly or casually. The climate change sustainability agenda that is being advanced by these activists and bureaucrats is eco-fascist, totalitarian and racist.” [249]

July 24, 2019

Heartland’s Director of Communications Jim Lakely denied media credentials to Mother Jones climate reporter Rebecca Leber for a Heartland climate conference held at the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. on July 25. [248]

In an email sent to Leber, which she posted on her Twitter feed, Lakely explained that his decision to bar her from the event was based on his assessment of Leber’s “habit of repeatedly sliming the esteemed scientists who have presented at our conferences as ‘climate deniers.’” [248]

Read the Tweet thread here:

I regret to inform you my garbage journalism got me barred from covering Heartland Institute's climate conference happening at Trump's DC hotel tomorrow pic.twitter.com/ehhzAVV132
— Rebecca Leber (@rebleber) July 25, 2019

May 21, 2019

Benny Peiser appeared on a Heartland Institute podcast where he acknowledged a warming climate but claimed that it does not pose a threat to humankind or the environment: [245]

“The warming is very gradual. […] There’s no increase in the extent or the number of these extreme weather events. So for the time being we are absolutely fine and there is absolutely nothing to worry about. […] I don’t see any problem in the foreseeable future.” [245]

Peiser also expressed his belief that scientists holding the consensus viewpoint on climate change are stifling debate and displaying autocratic tendencies: [245]

“The most troublesome feature is the authoritarian attempts to stifle anyone raising these issues. […] Anyone asking questions is regarded as a hurdle to salvation. […] It is destroying the culture of scientific objectivity and openness.” [245]

May 9, 2019

The Heartland Institute, represented by Tim Huelskamp, signed on to an open letter organized by the American Energy Alliance designed to fight against an electric vehicle tax credit. [242]

“The American Energy Alliance has organized a coalition to proclaim in one unified voice that there should be no expansion of the misguided electric vehicle tax credit,” Thomas Pyle wrote in a statement, quoted at The Daily Caller. “There is no question that the electric vehicle tax credit distorts the auto market to no gain.” [243]

According to Pyle and others who signed the letter, electric vehicle tax credits “overwhelmingly benefit the rich.” DeSmog's Koch vs. Clean project has systematically debunked this, among other well-rehearsed talking points and misinformation put forward by industry about electric vehicles. [243]

The letter cites research by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a group that has received over $600,000 from ExxonMobil and millions from “dark money” groups DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund.

April 5, 2019

Former television meteorologist Anthony Watts, founder of Watts Up With That (WUWT) joined the Heartland Institute as a senior fellow for environment on climate. According to the Heartland press release: [241]

“The people at Heartland are working from a reality-based viewpoint of the climate issue saying in effect, ‘Hey wait a minute, look at this,’ to the people that would follow the path of climate alarmism hook, line, and sinker,” Watts said. “Despite having a tiny fraction of the budget and social media outreach some green organizations have, they have done a fantastic job of countering climate alarmism.

“Laughably, my critics have said for years that I have been ‘on the payroll’ of Heartland in some ‘nefarious capacity,’ even though I’ve never been on their payroll. I figure I might as well give these folks something factual to talk about now instead of just innuendo and smear campaigns,” Watts said.

“I credit the efforts of Heartland in President Trump’s decision to exit from the Paris Climate Accord,” Watts added. “What reality-based climate skeptic wouldn’t want to be on that winning team? I look forward to being able to help Heartland dispel fear and overreaction to climate hysteria by providing factual essays and research that helps policy makers with climate related decisions.” [241]

Heartland's president Tim Huelskamp praised Watts as “truly a leader in the climate movement.” [241]

“I am honored that he has chosen to join The Heartland Institute,” Huelskamp said. “His energy, experience and scientific expertise will make an enormous, immediate positive impact on the Heartland team.”

Heartland senior fellow James Taylor said: [241]

“I look forward to working with Anthony presenting the compelling scientific evidence on climate change issues that the environmental left and their media allies do their best to ignore and sweep under the rug.”

n 2012, DeSmog exposed the Heartland Institute’s history of funding climate change denial with the help of leaked internal documents. Those documents also revealed Heartland was funding a website for Anthony Watts to “track temperature station data” with a pledge to raise $90,000 in that year. [242]

December 14, 2018

The Heartland Institute released a report written by Willie Soon and Patrick Moore among others criticizing Greenpeace, claiming the group promotes “socialist and anti-capitalist ideals.” According to the authors, “Greenpeace are not actually helping to protect the environment, or exposing real problems.” [240]

December 6, 2018

Attending the 24^th UN Conference of the Parties (COP-24) in Katowice, Poland, the Heartland Institute’s James Taylor signed a joint statement with representatives of Poland’s Solidarity labor union challenging the consensus viewpoints held by parties to the convention. [239]

The document states:

“We, speaking as one, believe in the restoration of the Scientific Method and the dismissal of ideological dogma at the United Nations. That means a healthy skepticism of data interpretation and policy conclusions and an end to the war on science and scientists by powerful state-backed forces.” [239]

December 4, 2018

The Heartland Institute sent representatives to the 24^th UN Conference of the Parties (COP-24) in Katowice, Poland as credentialed NGO-Observers. [238]

Heartland’s Craig Idso, Dennis Avery, and James Taylor held a live-streamed presentation of a report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) titled “Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels.” The presentation also featured a spokesman for the European Institute for Climate and Energy, Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, and EIKE's general secretary, Wolfgang Müller. [238]

Heartland’s report was touted as a summary for policymakers, and featured a section on the benefits of fossil fuels to human prosperity, health, and the environment. Heartland claims that their data proves that “humans are not causing a climate crisis.” [238]

In an official statement marking the event, Taylor said:

“Each year the verdict becomes stronger and clearer that the scientific evidence debunks global warming alarmism. While the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties frantically searches for reasons to justify its continued existence, The Heartland Institute is proud to present the science that debunks U.N. alarmism.

We will also be presenting examples of real-world evidence contradicting important U.N. climate claims. We will be delivering the truth that the only thing ‘settled’ about the global warming debate is that U.N. climate reports have little credibility. Skeptics present a far better scientific case.” [238]

Video from the event was posted on Heartland's YouTube channel:

November 2, 2018

Heartland Senior Fellow and “Science Director” Jay H. Lehr testified before New York City Council to “ push back at the notion the Big Apple will be underwater soon due to man-caused climate change.” View the video below, via the Heartland Institute's YouTube channel: [235]

November 2018

PBS Frontline reported Heartland's latest plan to distribute a new set of climate change materials to students. Heartland senior fellow James Taylor said he was editing a new “global warming guide” that presents “brief summaries of global warming topics.” While he didn't provide a title or distribution plan, Taylor did confirm that another mass mailing campaign was under consideration that would target students and teachers. [233]

“We’re very excited about it,” said Taylor. “What we’re looking to do is present the science in a format that is accessible and digestible for educators and students.”

Also reporting in early November, Undark examined the actions of another group that has been working to modify the teaching of climate science and other topics in classrooms: the Florida Citizens' Alliance. The group was behind a Florida textbook bill, HB989, that was signed into law in 2017. The Heartland Institute had reportedly worked with the Florida Citizens' Alliance in the runup to that bill by posting an analysis of Florida textbooks on their website, and “amplifying the organization’s attempt to remove 'improper and unbalanced propaganda from the school system.” [234]

September 13, 2018

The Heartland Institute live-streamed a panel discussion designed to counter the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, as promoted by press release at Watts Up With That. Panelists included Stanley B. Goldenberg, Richard Keen, Tom Harris, Jay Lehr, and was moderated by James Taylor. The event took place at Independent Institute headquarters. [231]

“While Global Climate Action Summit speakers attempt to make the case for heavy-handed government action to restrict carbon dioxide, The Heartland Institute will host interactive panel discussions fact-checking the summit presentations and pointing out the scientific and economic data supporting climate realism,” The press release claimed. [231]

The panelists denied any connection between extreme weather events and climate change. During the first day of the panel, Richard Keen went as far as to say that Arctic sea ice loss might not be a bad thing: [232]

“Somehow people seem to dread the loss of Arctic sea ice. I frankly don't see that as particularly a bad thing…or a good thing. And it's happened in the past with no ill effects” Keen said.

Tom Harris described modern CO2 rise as “peanuts” compared to past concentrations (SkepticalScience discusses this common climate change myth here), while Jay Lehr broke in that “there’s nothing bad about carbon dioxide. The more the better.” [232]

Lehr later reiterated a common frame put forward by industry suggesting that renewable energy is damaging for the poor: [232]

“We cannot have a world run by wind and solar and renewable energy. What we're talking about is making sure that the poor people in this world never advance their standard of living with inexpensive energy.” Lehr said. [232]

See video the first day of the event, titled “Rebutting Alarmism at the Global Climate Action Summit,” below. [232]

Video of the second day of the event below

June 7, 2018

Heartland Institute president Tim Huelkamp addressed a letter to Scott Pruitt supporting his prior statement that human emissions of carbon dioxide are not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” The letter offered materials to counter a Freedom of Information Act request by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) demanding the release of “EPA documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor driving global climate change.” [228], [229]

“We have no doubt that PEER, with the assistance of the judge, is trying to box you in and embarrass you,” Huelskamp wrote. “Fortunately, you do not have to look far to find 'documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor driving global climate change.'” [228]

For these documents, Huelskamp pointed to “Climate Change Reconsidered,” a report compiled by Heartland's Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) in partnership with the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. “Heartland has submitted these volumes in digital form during EPA comment periods in the past, and we are certain physical copies were also sent to the agency,” he said. [228]

Among numerous other claims, Huselkamp stated that the NPCC report—which he included a copy of in the letter to Pruitt—contained scientific evidence that: [228]

“Summarizes the research of a growing number of scientists who say variations in solar activity, not greenhouse gases, are the true driver of climate change” — See SkepticalScience myth #2.
“Challenges the IPCC’s claim that CO2-induced global warming is harmful to human health” — SkepticalScience Myth #42.
“Explains how the sun may have contributed as much as 66% of the observed twentieth century warming, and perhaps more” — SkepticalScience myth #2.

Huselkamp described Climate Change Reconsidered as the work of a “'Red Team' that has been working to critique and correct the work of ideological alarmists on the 'Blue Team'” for more than a decade. “Feel free to cite this material, which contains more than 10,000 footnotes, in your response to the judge or in any other public setting,” Huelskamp concluded. [230 ]

May 26, 2018

Emails released to the Environmental Defence Fund and the Southern Environmental Law Centre, who had sued to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request, revealed the Heartland Institute was working closely with the Environmental Protection Agency. Huelskamp said in a statement: [227]

“Of course The Heartland Institute has been working with EPA on policy and personnel decisions. They recognised us as the pre-eminent organisation opposing the radical climate alarmism agenda and instead promoting sound science and policy.” [227]

John Konkus, EPA deputy associate administrator for public affairs, reached out multiple times to Heartland in the emails, The Guardian reported. In one email, Konkus reached wrote to Heartland's then-president Joe Bast: “If you send a list, we will make sure an invitation is sent,” requesting recommendations for scientists and economics to attend the EPA's public hearing on science standards. Followup emails included invitees from climate change denial groups such as Plants Need CO2, The Right Climate Stuff, and Junk Science. [227]

EPA spokesperson Lincoln Ferguson said their communications with the Heartland Institute was just among many working relationships with other groups in order to “ensure the public is informed.” [227]

“It demonstrates the agency’s dedication to advancing President Trump’s agenda of environmental stewardship and regulatory certainty,” he said. [227]

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May 8, 2018

A new set of documents released to the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed details of Pruitt's plan to engage in a “red team, blue team” expertise on climate change. The documents showed communications between the EPA and a number of corporate-funded conservative think tanks with views that run counter to established science on climate change including the Heartland Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and the CO2 Coalition. [224]

View the original FOIA documents here. [224]

According to Benjamin D. Santer, a climate researcher at the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “The idea that the Heartland Institute should be dictating what E.P.A. does on climate science is crazy.” He added, “They do not have scientific expertise.” [224]

The emails also suggest that the EPA's Office of Research and Development, which normally does most of the science work of the Agency, was not active in the discussions. In one email, a program analyst in the office, Christina Moody, wrote: “We are not involved. The Administrator is the one who wants to do this and I’m guessing his folks are putting it together. [224]

Joe Bast denied that the Heartland Institute holds views outside of the mainstream scientific consensus: [224]

“Our view is that the causes and consequences of climate change are very complex and future climate conditions are probably impossible to forecast,” Bast said in a statement. [224]

April 23, 2018

The Heartland Institute, represented by Tim Huelskamp, was among 22 groups signed on to an open letter asking President Trump to ignore recent criticism of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. [225]

In a speech to the U.S. Senate, a group of Democratic senators identified the organizations as front groups for the Koch Brothers and other wealthy donors, nicknamed the “Web of Deceit.” The senators outlined how, in addition to funding from the Koch network, many of the groups use untraceable “dark money” funneled through groups like Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust to influence legislation, particularly with regards to climate and pollution.

Senator Whitehouse outlined it as “a web of deceit conceived and bankrolled by the Koch brothers and other self-interested billionaires to advocate for very selfish and unpatriotic policies.” Whitehouse added: “This web of deceit has infiltrated and populated the Trump administration, and it is swamping the interests of everyday Americans. [226]

The full list of pro-Pruitt signatories and their respective organizations is as follows:

Saulius “Saul” Anuzius - 60 Plus Association
Fred Birnbaum - Idaho Freedom Foundation
L. Brent Bozell III - Media Research Center
Amy Oliver Cooke - Independence Institute
Wesley Denton - Conservative Partnership Institute
Viv Forbes - The Carbon Sense Coalition
Frank J Gaffney - Center for Security Policy
Steve Goreham - Climate Science Coalition of America
Phil Kerpen - American Commitment
Andrew Langer - Institute for Liberty
Lisa B. Nelson - American Legislative Exchange Council
Rick Manning - Americans for Limited Government
Jenny Beth Martin - Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund
William Perry Pendley - Mountain States Legal Foundation
Thomas Pyle - American Energy Alliance
George Rasley - ConservativeHQ.com
Sandy Rios - American Family Association
Craig Richardson - Energy & Environment Legal Institute
Craig Rucker - Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Dr Jameson Taylor - Missisippi Center for Public Policy
Kyle Wingfield - Georgia Public Policy Foundation

January 3, 2018

Heartland President Joe Bast appeared on an episode of the Heartland Institute's Daily Podcast with H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the past and future of the Heartland Institute including his stepping down as President and CEO and his planned departure from the organization. Bast outlined some of the Institute's early work on climate change: [223]

[8:10] HSB: “You mentioned climate. Let's get to that. Under your leadership, the Heartland Institute became a leader and has been recognized as such in the realm of climate science, economics, and policy. Why did the Heartland Institute become so deeply involved in this one issue? What did you see that others didn't about the importance of climate change as an issue, and what impact has Heartland's efforts had?”

JB: “Well, Heartland started addressing climate actually way back, ah, 1994…1995. We did our first book that had a chapter on climate change in it. We addressed it primarily from an economic perspective, arguing that the cost of reducing emissions was really high compared to the sketchy evidence that we had about the cost of harms and offsetting benefits. Nobody listened to us. We did three, four, or five I thought really good policy studies on this topic looking specifically for example, at a carbon tax on agriculture, and the studies got almost no attention.

“It turns out the reason they got no attention is because people were afraid of catastrophic climate change. When the building is on fire, people don't argue or negotiate the price of fire extinguishers; they're all too busy running for the doors, and so we concluded that we had to put the fire out before we can get a reasonable conversation to take place here. We've got to address this underlying fear of catastrophic climate change. So we did a deep dive in 2007; we said, where is this fear coming from? Is it based on sound science? Who are the scientists who are in this debate? Do they need our help? Why aren't they getting a better hearing? And why aren't Cato, and Heritage, and AEI, and other think tanks engaged in this part of the debate?

“And what we learned was that virtually none of the free market think tanks were addressing the science. They weren't doing that because they felt it wasn't their job. They're mostly economists and lawyers and they didn't want to start getting into the physics of climate change. I respect that. But the result was a gap: there was no free market voice on the climate science debate that was taking place, and that was a critical error on the part of free market activists. Unless we address the science, we are going to lose this debate.

“So we recruited scientists from all around the country. We ended up producing the series called Climate Change Reconsidered for the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. We had a tremendous impact. I mean, it's quite remarkable. That book, that series of books, has been cited over 100 times in peer-reviewed articles. The Chinese Academy of Sciences thought so highly of it that it translated it into Chinese and published a condensed volume of Climate Change Reconsidered.

Bast also claimed credit to the Heartland Institute for both defeating cap and trade proposals, and for President Donald Trump's views on climate change: [223]

“We, I think we're responsible—one of two or three groups that could genuinely claim responsibility for defeating cap and trade and carbon tax proposals at the national level for a ten year period, pretty much from 2007 until today.

I think we're the reason President Trump discovered, or concluded that climate change is not a real problem and not a crisis facing the country, and that by running on that—by defending coal miners for example—he could appeal to a very big base in the United States. People who expected all along that global warming was junk science, that they would rather have good jobs and inexpensive energy than pursue some liberal dream of, you know, replacing all fossil fuel with wind and solar power.”

“So Trump ran on that. He won, and it's been remarkable: for the last year, he's been implementing many of the promises that he made as a candidate.” [223]

Bast said he was “anxious about the future” given the possibility that Hillary Clinton could have won the election, but that Trump's victory gave the country “a second chance at freedom”:

“Now Donald Trump wasn't the first choice for most of us. He might not even have been the final choice, but the alternative was truly scary. You know, Hillary Clinton was committed to finishing what Barack Obama started, and that was pretty much destroying the local decentralized education system in America—replacing it with a centralized curriculum. Destroying the decentralized health care system that used to depend primarily on private insurance companies and doctors in private practice. So replacing that with Obamacare, destroying the financial sector.

“I mean all the commanding heights of a free society, President Obama targeted and did major damage for eight years, and for whatever reasons Congress and the courts didn't seem able to stop him. Hillary Clinton was committed to waging that war for another four years. I'm not sure we could have recovered from that. So we got a second chance at freedom with the election of Donald Trump. Incidentally I decided to step down, now, before the election of Donald Trump, so if anyone is wondering if that influenced my decision it didn't. But it was a second chance we probably didn't deserve to preserve freedom in America. It's very precarious. It is perched on an edge. And so I'm very anxious about the future of freedom,” Bast said.

Finally, Bast said that the Institute needs more money to grow: [223]

“What will Heartland Institute's role be in that? I am optimistic. I think Heartland is going to grow. There's a much bigger niche for what we do than what I was able to raise money for to fill. You know, I raised about six million dollars a year for the Heartland Institute. We should be at eight or ten [million]. We should have twenty, twenty five guys working in our, just in our government relations office, working with state legislators, giving them the information that they need, testifying when they need testimony, helping them draft legislation. I mean, this is all exciting stuff that they're asking us to do and we don't have the staff to do it.

So I think under Tim Huelskamp's leadership we're going to raise that money. We're going to expand the staff and fill that niche. So Heartland should be doing well in future years. I only hope and pray that freedom in the United States is going to continue rising while the Heartland Institute is performing its job.”

March 2, 2018

At LibertyCon 2018, Heartland Institute Research Director Edward Hudgins told an attendee (in a conversation recorded at Heartland Institute’s conference booth)

“One of the reasons the Trump Administration pulled out of the Paris Accord was because of our materials… Now when Obama was in there, nobody wanted to hear from us. Fortunately, we don’t have him in there and of course members of congress we give this stuff to all the time.”

February 7, 2018

Heartland Institute research fellow Isaac Orr was featured as part of the Heartland Institute's “The Patriot's Toolbox Speaker Series,” an event promoting their same-titled new book. Orr also wrote the second chapter of the book. [221]

During his speech, Orr argues against CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards to improve fuel efficiency in cars, claiming that this reduces safety. He also claims biofuels cannot replace oil, that wind and solar get much higher subsidies than coal, natural gas, and oil, and that “global warming is not a crisis.“ [221]

Orr said that the Clean Air Act was very successful in combatting air pollution. He also says that he tends “to believe the numbers that they're posting here ” when it comes to pollutants. “We've been incredibly successful,” Orr said. “The clean air act has done a really good job.” [221]

February 4, 2018

Heartland endorsed a letter co-authored by Willie Soon and Scott Armstrong urging the Natural History Museum to resist calls to remove board member Rebekah Mercer. Mercer’s involvement with the Museum had been widely criticized by environmentalists for her ties to climate science denial. [247]

In the letter, Soon and Armstrong suggested a politically motivated, anti-science bias was behind the calls for Mercer’s ouster:

“Make no mistake, the agitators are not defending science from quackery—quite the contrary! They demand that the Museum support a party line, thinly disguised as science.” [247]

Co-signers of the letter also included: [247]

February 1, 2018

Heartland's Tim Huelskamp discussed the controversial “Energy Freedom Scorecard” in a short Heartland Institute video: [220]

“The media went a little nuts about it, because the presume President Trump had this list in his hands all through his first year in the White House,” Huelskamp said, adding “Maybe he did, maybe he didn't.” [220]

Huelskamp went on to describe a few of the items on the scorecard, including Trump's approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Other items Huelskamp mentions include the cancelling of the Clean Energy Plan, which he claims, “the latest climate science shows is not remotely justified,” rolling back restrictions on fracking, opening up land to oil and gas drilling. [220]

He describes the Paris Climate Agreement as “Nothing more than a scheme to redistribute the wealth of the west to third-world kleptocrats at the UN” and the Social Cost of Carbon as “another trick of the left to destroy the fossil fuel industry and hamstring the United States.” [220]

Huelskamp adds Trump's decision to open the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling is “sensible policy.” [220]

January 2018

The Heartland Institute came to the defense of former marketing director Eugene Koprowski after he faced legal action over allegedly stalking a woman who worked with him. “Heartland’s contrarian skepticism on policy issues has extended to sexual harassment itself,” Huffpost reported, noting that Heartland had also defended Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain against harassment accusations in 2011. [218]

The 2011 Heartland article was titled “Women Crying ‘Sexual Harassment’ Should ’Man Up.’” In 2017, Heartland also republished a Newsman op-ed that accused female employees at Fox News of making “disingenuous” sexual harassment allegations. [219]

Heartland's Joe Bast released a statement claiming no wrongdoing on the part of Heartland: [218]

“The Heartland Institute is being targeted because our mission is fighting for a smaller, less-intrusive government and advancing free markets and greater individual liberty,” Bast said. “Our opponents in this debate cannot win on the merits of their arguments, so they stoop to circulate lies about our dedicated staff. Shame on them, and no, we will not stop until freedom is rising again.” [218]

December 27, 2017

Writing at The Heartland Institute's blog, Joe Bast made a number of “corrections” to a story written by Neela Banerjee at Inside Climate News titled “How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine.” Firstly, according to Bast, the billboard campaign Heartland released in 2012 featuring an image of Ted Kaczynski and the text “I still believe in Global Warming. Do You?” was actually a success. [214], [215]

When Heartland introduced the campaign in 2012, their release included with the following statement: [216]

“The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society. This is why the most prominent advocates of global warming aren't scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen.”

Heartland pulled the billboard after an outcry from supporters and opponents alike. It had run for “exactly 24 hours.” [217]

“This provocative billboard was always intended to be an experiment. And after just 24 hours the results are in: It got people’s attention,” Bast wrote in the 2012 Heartland press release announcing the cancellation of the billboard. [217]

“We know that our billboard angered and disappointed many of Heartland’s friends and supporters, but we hope they understand what we were trying to do with this experiment. We do not apologize for running the ad, and we will continue to experiment with ways to communicate the ‘realist’ message on the climate,” Bast wrote in 2012. [217]

Following the campaign, a number of corporations begant to cut their ties with Heartland, and numerous critics denounced Heartland. Shortly after, at the Heartland's 2012 International Conference on Climate Change, Joe Bast announced that Heartland would not be holding any more conferences and was struggling to pay its bills. Heartland has held several more ICCCs since then. [5], [67]

Writing in 2017, Bast claimed the billboard had actually been a success:

“The billboard hit its target hard, as good satire does. It broke a news blackout that environmentalists and the legacy media had imposed on Heartland and other groups that challenged the Gore-Obama dogma on global warming. Far from hurting Heartland, as Banerjee claims, it saved us: 2012 was a breakthrough year for us with record funds raised, record media attention, and record attendance at our events.” [214]

“That year also marked the moment Heartland’s views on climate change moved from marginal to mainstream.” [214]

Bast then claimed that Banerjee's statement “isn't true” that “Hundreds of millions of dollars from corporations such as ExxonMobil and wealthy individuals such as the billionaires Charles and David Koch have supported the development of a sprawling network, which includes Heartland and other think tanks, advocacy groups and political operatives.” [214]

“ExxonMobil did contribute around $50,000 a year to Heartland for about a decade,” Bast added, but it was “never more than 5% of our annual budget.” [214]

November 21, 2017

Heartland's CEO and former president Joe Bast spoke with Michael Bastasch of The Daily Caller, followingThe Washington Post's reporting on Heartland's closed-door meeting in Houston, Texas. [212], [213]

Bastasch said that Jim Lakely, Heartland's communication director, had claimed the article was an effort to delegitimize Heartland and its work.

“The tone of it is that the climate realist right isn’t happy with Trump’s progress,” Lakely told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” [212]

Bast had similar comments, saying “the left demonizes us” while pointing to the publishing of Heartland's leaked 2012 budget documents as an example. According to Bast, Heartland also never specifically told the EPA who to pick as part of a climate “Red Team.” [212]

“I have never met Scott Pruitt,” Bast said. “We’ve always tried to remain arm’s length from politics. It’s never been a priority for us to engage in politics.”

“The real way we measure our impact is through public opinion surveys,” Bast said, referring to Heartland's surveys on public global warming attitudes.

However, Bast did admit to a relationship with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, telling Bastasch that he talked frequently with Bannon regarding orders to combat climate policies, like urging Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. [212]

“Steve was an important channel for us to the White House,” Bast said. “[..] It’s changed with Steve Bannon leaving.” [212]

Bast also said that Heartland's new president, Tim Huelskamp, “has been invaluable to finding new allies in the administration,” Bastasch wrote. [212]

November 15, 2017

The Washington Post obtained an “Energy Freedom Scorecard,” that was distributed at a closed-door meeting at a Houston hotel. At the private meeting, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, activists discussed the actions of the Trump administration to roll back environmental regulations. [206]

The scorecard lists several items as “done” including withdrawing implementation of the Waters of the U.S. rule, “Dramatically reduce government funding of environmental advocacy groups,” “Withdraw from the Paris Accord” and also withdrawal from the Clean Power Plan. [206]

David Schnare noted that they work working to place allies in key White House positions and other areas that guide federal policy: [206]

“There are ways to get names in, and we’ve used every door and window and crack in the wall we can use,” Schnare.

Heartland Institute spokesman Jim Likely confirmed that they had created the scorecard.

Items listed as “not done” include completely removing federal tax credits for wind and solar producers, withdrawing from the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, and ending funding for “the United Nation's Biased Climate Change Programs, in particular the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” [206]

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Energy Freedom Score Card (as of October 15, 2017)
Mission Statement: Affordable, reliable, and plentiful energy enables us to protect the environment while also creating jobs and the goods and service she need. Expensive and unreliable energy, like the kind produced by ethanol and commercial wind and solar companies, destroys jobs and harms the environment. Fossil fuels are the foundation of economic growth and prosperity. Taxing them or making them more scarce causes economic growth to slow, makes food and other essential goods more expensive, and many of the good things we take for granted are lost. We owe it to future generations to leave the world a better place than we found it. Renewable energies don't protect the environment. They actually harm it by being less efficient and more land-intrusive than fossil fuels.
Status	Recommendation
1. Rein in EPA Repeal unnecessary regulations affecting air and qater quality and energy production, end the abuse of science, end subsidies to leftist groups.
DONE	Withdraw implementation of the Waters of the U.S. rule.
DONE Pruitt announced new EPA policy to end sue and settle.	Dramatically reduce government funding of environmental advocacy groups, including funds delivered to such groups through the “sue and settle” scam.
STARTED Some regs on coal-powered generation have been removed or delayed. Others are up for reivew.	Roll back recent EPA regulations on ozone, small particles, and other air pollutants that are based on discredited epidemiology and toxicology.
STARTED Trump ended terms of many long-time members of science advisory boards ith conflicts of interest.	End conflicts of interest on scientific review boards.
STARTED Pruitt's withdrawal of the CPP said there are no health effects below EPA's standard for PM-2.5.	Formally end the use of the “linear no-threshold assumption” in determining safe levels of exposure to pollutants.
STARTED Trump said Obama's preliminary approval of higher CAFÉ standards will be reviewed.	Roll back Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which result in the deaths of thousands of car and truck passengers every year, needlessly increase the price of new cars, and favor foreign car manufacturers
NOT DONE	End the use of “secret science” by EPA and other regulatory agencies.
NOT DONE	End reliance on near-zero risk ratios.
NOT DONE	Enforce the Data Quality Act with respect to the junk sicence promoted and funded by EPA on air pollution and toxicology.
NOT DONE	Congress should repeal the Delaney clause, which essentially commits the FDA and other government agencies to an impossible zero risk standard.



2. Repeal Global Warming Regulations
DONE	Withdraw from the Paris Accord and stop funding the Green Climate Fund.
DONE	Retract and rescind “social cost of carbon” estimates and stop including them in required cost-benefit analysis of new regulations
DONE	Withdraw/repeal the Clean Power Plan
STARTED Pruitt has announced plans for a Red Team, progress has been slow	Create a President's Council on Climate Change charged with cutting through the politics and bias that infected climate science and policymaking during the Obama administration and advising the President on what policies to repeal and what policies to pursue.
STARTED At least some research grants are being cancelled, the president's budget called for a 30% cut to EPA budget.	Dramatically reduce goverment funding of climate research pending the findings of the new President's Council on Climate Change. When funding for such research resumes, require that equal amounts go to studying natural and man-made climate change.
NOT DONE	Withdraw from the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change
NOT DONE	Stop basing military planning and strategies on the predictions of flawed climate models.
NOT DONE	Support legislation repealing Obama's Executive Order 13693, which requires the Department of Defense to create a number of climate change programs and policies
NOT DONE	End funding for the United Nations' biased climate change programs, in particular the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).


3. End Climate Profiteering End subsidies, tax credits, feed-in tariffs, regulatory carve-outs, and mandates that benefit wind, solar, and ethanol producers yet produce no environmental benefits.
STARTED Some states have frozen renewable energy mandate targets, some have considered repealing existing mandates, but progress is slow.	Repeal state Renewable Power Mandates (RPMs) where they exist and oppose their opion in states that don't currently ahve them.
STARTED* A DOE proposal to FERC would start to level the playing field between coal and renewables. See footnote below.	Have FERC grant higher rates to coal generation to recognize the important role they play in provide base-load energy.
STARTED Trump's budget proposed moving forward with Yucca Mountain	Remove regulatory obstacles to the expansion of nuclear power and open the nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain.
STARTED Trump froze current ethanol production minimum rather than raising it.	Abolish the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) program, which mandates that refiners add ethanol to gasoline.
NOT DONE	End federal tax credits to wind and solar producers.
NOT DONE	Convice state PUCs not to implement “zombie” Obama-era regulations and subsidies that lead to the premature closing of coal-powered generation
NOT DONE	Hold solar and wind power producers to the same environmental protection standards as are applied to coal and natural gas power generators.


4. Use It, Don't Lost It Achieve “energy dominance” by maximizing U.S. production of fossil fuels. End excessive restrictions of exploration, development, and production of fossil fuels on public lands as well as private lands.
DONE	Approve Keystone XL and other pipelines blocked by President Obama.
STARTED Some restrictions have been withdrawn, Interior is reducing size of some national monuments.	Roll back unnecessary regulations on hydraulic fracturing, mining, and oil and gas exploration offshore and on federal lands.
STARTED Trump ended an Obama-era anti-fracking rule, states are debating restrictions on fracking.	Repeal unnecessary restrictions and state bans on fracking.
STARTED	Expand U.S. exports of coal, liquefied natural gas, and oil as a way to reduce the reliance of allies and other countries on energy imports from Russia and other bad actors in the international community.

November 9, 2017

The Heartland Institute hosted the “America First Energy Conference” at the Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas. [204]

In a fundraising letter obtained by DeSmog, Fred Palmer said the event would “review the scientific and economic evidence that exposes the fraud inherent in the Obama-era regulation regime” while discussing “the overwhelming benefits of fossil fuels to us all.” With an anticipated 300 to 400 attendees, it would be “similar to the attendance at [the Heartland Institute’s] popular International Conferences on Climate Change.” [202]

“In particular, we are inviting state legislators, think tank leaders, energy executives, Trump administration political appointees and staff, and policy analysts who write and speak on environment and energy topics,” Palmer said in the letter. [202]

As reported at the Houston Chronicle, speakers notably included two Trump Administration officials: Richard W. Westerdale II of the State Department and Vincent DeVito of the Department of Interior. David Bernhardt, deputy secretary of the Interior Department, was also formerly listed as a Heartland conference speaker, but apparently withdrew. [207]

The Climate Investigations Center put up a parody of the America First Energy conference website, complete with profiles on the individual speakers and highlighting their corporate funding and ties to groups such as the Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC). [208]

Listed speakers included current and former industry representatives such as Heath Lovell, VP of Public Policy for Alliance Coal, former Peabody Energy senior VP Fred Palmer; high-profile climate science deniers and regular ICCC speakers like Jim Inhofe (who, while not there in person, gave a video address to the conference), Craig Idso, and Joe Bast; and former Trump Transition team members Myron Ebell and David Schnare. [209]

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt also gave a video address to the conference, saying “we want to celebrate what's been going on this last year with respect to the changes that have taken place in Washington D.C.” He goes on to list off the “tremendous change with respect to regulatory reform” under Trump: [210]

“Just to update you a little on what we've been doing: we've been providing clarity, regulatory reform in areas that matter. We've withdrawn the Clean Power Plan and we're providing, you know, certainty and clarity there. We've withdrawn the Waters of the United States rule, that very terrible rule that created uncertainty across the marketplace […]”

“I want to say to you at the Heartland Institute,” Pruitt said. “Thanks for what you're doing to advance energy, thank you for what you're doing to advance natural resources. We've been blessed immensely as a country. To whom much is given, much is required. And when you have tremendous natural resources from coal, to natural gas, to oil, to generate electricity in a very cost-effective way, we should celebrate that and be good stewards. And that's something we ought to embrace.” [210]

The full list of speakers is posted on the event's website, Americafirstenergy.org: [209]

Name	Title	Organization
Joe Leimkuhler
Joseph Bast	CEO	The Heartland Institute
Roger Bezdek	President	MISI
H. Sterling Burnett		The Heartland Institute
Clyde Wayne Crews*	Vice President for Policy	Competitive Enterprise Institute
Kevin Dayaratna	Senior Statistician	The Heritage Foundation
Hal Doiron	Co-founder, The Right Climate Stuff	TRCS
Paul Driessen	Senior Fellow	Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
John Dale Dunn	Physician, Policy Advisor	The Heartland Institute
Myron Ebell	Director of Energy Policy	Competitive Enterprise Institute
James Enstrom	President	Scientific Integrity Institute
Alex Epstein	President and Founder	Center for Industrial Progress
Jennifer Fielder	CEO	American Lands Council
Jason Funes	Special Assistant, OIEA	U.S. Department of the Interior
Tim Huelskamp	President	The Heartland Institute
Peter Hartley	Professor of Economics, Energy Studies	Rice University
Kenneth Haapala	President	President, Science and Environmental Policy Project
Craig Idso	Founder and Former president	CO2 Science
Mark Krumenacher	Senior Vice President	GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
Jeff Landry	Attorney General	State of Louisiana
Jim Lakely	Director of Communications	The Heartland Institute
David Legates	Professor of climatology	University of Delaware
Jay Lehr	Science Director	The Heartland Institute
Nick Loris	Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow	The Heritage Foundation
Anthony Lupo	Associate Professor	University of Missouri -Columbia
Ross Mckitrick	Professor of Economics	University of Guelph
Steve Milloy	Author, Founder of JunkScience.com	JunkScience.com
Todd Myers	Director of the Center for the Environment	Washington Policy Center
John Nothdurft	Director of Government Relations	The Heartland Institute
Isaac Orr	Research Fellow	The Heartland Institute
Frederick Palmer	Senior Fellow	The Heartland Institute
Robert Phalen	Professor of Medicine	University of California, Irvine
David Schnare	Director	Free-Market Environmental Law Clinic
Aaron Stover	Policy Analyst	The Heartland Institute
Richard Trzupek	Principal Consultant	Trinity Consultants, LLC
Richard Burton Belzer	Independent Consultant	Economics, Risk, and Information Quality
Alan Chamberlain	Chief Geologist	Cedar Strat Corp.
Vincent Devito	Counselor for Energy Policy	U.S. Department of the Interior
Bette Grande	Senior Fellow	The Heartland Institute
Thomas B. Hayward	Admiral, United States Navy (retired)	Former Chief of U.S. Naval Operations
Jim Inhofe	United States Senator	Oklahoma
Heath Lovell	Vice President for Public Affairs	Alliance Coal
Harry W. Macdougald	Attorney	Caldwell, Propst & DeLoach, LLP
Scott Pruitt	Administrator	Environmental Protection Agency
Lamar Smith	Chairman, House Committee	Science, Space, and Technology
Michelle Smith	Vice President, Land	The Quiat Companies
David Stevenson	Director, Center for Energy Competitiveness	Caesar Rodney Institute
Richard W. Westerdale Ii	Senior Advisor, Energy	U.S. Department of State
Bud Weinstein	Associate Director, Maguire Energy Institute	Southern Methodist University

*Name since removed. Originally posted on October, 2017 speaker's list. [203]

The following sponsors were listed as of November 2017: [211]

Sponsor	Web URL
Colderside.com	http://www.colderside.com/
Ayn Rand Institute	https://www.aynrand.org/
Australian Taxpayers' Alliance	http://americafirstenergy.org/sponsors/www.taxpayers.org.au/
Spark of Freedom	http://sparkoffreedomfoundation.org/
Competitive Enterprise Institute	https://cei.org/
Instituto Monte Castelo	https://montecastelo.org/
CO2 Science	http://www.co2science.org/
Leadership Institute	https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/
Mackinac Center for Public Policy	https://www.mackinac.org/
Frontier Centre for Public Policy	https://fcpp.org/
Americans for Prosperity Foundation	https://americansforprosperityfoundation.org/
Jock Locke Foundation	https://www.johnlocke.org/
Caesar Rodney Institute	http://www.caesarrodney.org/
Georgia Public Policy Foundation	http://www.georgiapolicy.org/
Independent Institute	http://www.independent.org/
Texas Public Policy Foundation	https://www.texaspolicy.com/
The Heritage Foundation	http://www.heritage.org/
Independence Institute	https://i2i.org/
Petroleum Connection	http://www.petroleumconnection.com/

September 28, 2017

The Heartland Institute held closed door meetings to identify candidates for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's “red team” exercise on climate change, an email from Joe Bast revealed. As E&E News reported, the email and notes provided “a broad look at skeptics' policy playbook under the Trump administration while exposing stark suspicions about Pruitt.” [205]

“EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's proposal for a Red Team-Blue Team exercise is vague, probably would not be effective, and is unlikely to come about,” Bast wrote in the email. “More likely to occur is a similar exercise directed by the head of another department (NASA, NOAA, or OSTP) with more interest than Pruitt has shown in the scientific debate and more likely to stick around to see the results.”

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According to the notes, those present at the meeting included David Shnare who “described how policy can be changed from 'inside the swamp' via seven 'legal points of entry' such as legal challenges under the Information Quality Act and violations of peer review,” Heartland president Tim Huelskamp, David Legates, Harry MacDougald, and Jim Lakely.

July 2017

Scott Pruitt's EPA began initial moves to assemble a “red team” designed to combat mainstream climate change science. The administration reached out to the Heartland Institute, the Washington Examiner reported. [198]

“The White House and the Environmental Protection Agency have reached out to the Heartland Institute to help identify scientists who could constitute a red team, and we've been happy to oblige,” Jim Lakely, the Heartland Institute's communications director, told the Washington Examiner.

“This effort is long overdue,” he said. “The climate scientists who have dominated the deliberations and the products of the IPCC have gone almost wholly without challenge. That is a violation of the scientific method and the public's trust.”

The Heartland Institute has been a long proponent of a red team “to critically examine what has become alarmist dogma rather than a sober evaluation of climate science for many years,” Lakely said. “In fact, Heartland has worked closely with a red team that has been examining the science for several years: the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, or NIPCC.” [198]

According to Climatewire, a senior administration official said that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt “believes that we will be able to recruit the best in the fields which study climate and will organize a specific process in which these individuals […] provide back-and-forth critique of specific new reports on climate science.” [199]

The official added that the program will use “red team, blue team” exercises to conduct an “at-length evaluation of U.S. climate science.” Climate scientists expressed concern that the “red team, blue team” concept could further politicize research and “disproportionately elevate the views of a relatively small number of experts who disagree with mainstream scientists,” Climatewire also reported. [200]

June 29, 2017

The Heartland Institute announced that Joe Bast would be stepping down as president, to be replaced by Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp starting July 2017. Bast said he would remain with Heartland as CEO until some time in 2018. [182]

According to reporting by The Hill, as the new president of Heartland, Huelskamp would continue “pushing for eliminating Environmental Protection Agency regulations and challenging 'climate change alarmists' like former President Obama and former Vice President Al Gore; advocate for school choice and voucher programs; and offer assistance to states navigating ObamaCare and the current healthcare fight.” [183]

“I have big shoes to fill given the tremendous leadership of Joe Bast and the Heartland team,” Huelskamp said in a phone interview with The Hill. [183]

Huelskamp is former chairman of the Tea Party Caucus and a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus. [183]

June, 2017

The Heartland Institute sent out mass mailings to grade school teachers suggesting that there is debate in climate change science. The Heartland package included a free, unsolicited book entitled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, and an 11-minute DVD, plus a cover letter from Heartland. [191]

“How do you teach global warming?” the letter begins. “I am writing to ask you to consider the possibility that the science in fact is not 'settled.' If that's the case, then students would be better served by letting them know a vibrant debate is taking place among scientists on how big the human impact on climate is and whether or not we should be worried about it.” [191]

The “educational” materials were sent to tens of thousands of teachers, with 25,000 planned to go out every two weeks, Joe Bast told PBS in March. [192]

While a Heartland spokesperson told Buzzfeed News that some teachers received the materials positively, others were more skeptical. [193]

“It’s just loaded with citations,” Cheryl Manning, a Colorado science teacher at Evergreen High School who received the mailing told Buzzfeed. “But it’s circular. It’s all self-citations. Citing their own stuff instead of citing other people’s work.” [193]

Another science teacher from Georgia wrote an open letter to her colleagues after concluding it contained misleading arguments and logical fallacies: [194]

“As someone who has taught college-level (Advanced Placement) environmental science for nine years, served on the Board for the Georgia Science Teachers Association, and has inspired dozens of my students to pursue scientific careers,” she wrote, “I do not take the condition of our planet, the tremendous importance of science education, or the accuracy of the information I purvey in my classroom lightly.” [194]

The mailings prompted a response by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren, Edward Markey, and Brian Schatz: [191]

“The Heartland Institute has disseminated ‘alternative facts’ and fake science at the behest of its industry funders for decades,” the four senators wrote in a June 7 letter to Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's recently appointed Secretary of Education.

“In the 1990s, it teamed up with Phillip Morris to challenge facts about the health risks of tobacco,” they wrote. “The tobacco industry’s conduct was found to be fraudulent. Using the same strategies, with funding from the Koch family foundations, ExxonMobil, and other fossil fuel interests, the Heartland Institute now seeks to undermine the scientific consensus about climate change.” [191]

The senators wrote that over 200,000 kindergarten through grade 12 teachers were targeted by the campaign, a number that Heartland's Joe Bast disputed, saying there are “considerably less than 200,000” public school science teachers in the U.S. “Didn’t anyone on your staffs fact-check this letter before it was circulated?” Bast wrote. [191]

According to the National Science Teachers' Association, which counts roughly 300,000 “science educators” on its mailing lists, the U.S. has over 150,000 high school and middle school science teachers — plus about 1.6 million elementary school teachers who teach science as well as other topics. [195]

“We knew the other side, the alarmist side, was already being discussed so our goal was to try to get both sides discussed by having something from more of the realist side in the discussion,” said Lennie Jarratt, who has managed the book's distribution for Heartland. “I believe it ended up being a little over 250,000 that went out to teachers,” he added.

Drew Ising, a biology and environmental science teacher who received the Heartland materials, spoke with KCUR: [201]

“We have our science expertise. We have our familiarity with sound teaching,” Ralph said. “And so it’s really frustrating to think that there’s a group of people out there investing time and money to try and create discord in our profession, because by and large science teachers know better than this.” [201]

June 1, 2017

According to The Illinois Review, Joe Bast was attended the Rose Garden event for Donald Trump's announcement his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement: [177]

“Although The Heartland Institute has been subject to many attacks from so-called global alarmists, after Joe Bast’s presence was spotted in the Rose Garden an effort was made to harm President Trump by attacking Heartland’s Joe Bast,” The Illinois Review wrote. [177]

Bast, writing at the Heartland Institute's blog, said “I was honored to be invited, and view it as a sign that our efforts for the past 20 years on the climate change issue have not gone unnoticed. But the left noticed my attendance as well, and so this week they tried to hurt President Trump by attacking me.” [178]

In the article, Bast also penned a response to four U.S. senators who had mailed U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos asking for correspondence between the Heartland Institute and her department. Bast's June 8 letter reads: [179], [180]

“For the record, The Heartland Institute has contacted nearly all members of the Trump cabinet. We have sent extensive information to more than 100 members of the administration explaining who we are, enclosing multiple publications (including books, policy studies, and videos) of most relevance to their positions, and offering to make our extensive network of some 370 policy experts available to provide further assistance. Some have gotten back to us.” [181]

May 26, 2017

Writing at the Heartland Institute's blog Somewhat Reasonable, Joe Bast makes a few recommendations on “good short references to the climate debate to share with family and friends over the Memorial Day holiday.” Bast's article, titled “Happy Memorial Day, You Stupid, Arrogant, Liberal Global Warming Alarmist!” [176]

Bast points to an outdated 1922 article on Artic ice as a good “conversation starter” and “a good way to poke a stick in the eye of your global warming alarmist friends.” [176]

“Global warming alarmists often claim the recent Arctic warming is unprecedented or must be due to the human presence. On its face, the 1922 article makes those claims dubious. Closer study reveals they haven’t made the case,” Bast wrote. [176]

Among the “short references” listed by Bast include work by Craig Idso, Robert Carter, S. Fred Singer, Joe Bast (himself), Anthony Watts, and the Heartland Institute's newsletter. [176]

May 8, 2017

The Heartland Institute, represented by Joe Bast, is listed on an open letter to President Donald J. Trump urging him “to withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs.” [173]

DeSmog reported that the 40 groups represented in the letter, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), The Heartland Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, have received a combined total of millions of dollars from the Koch Brothers, ExxonMobil, and other industry groups. [174]

Analysis also showed that the groups accepted about $80 million through Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust, two groups that have been confirmed is a key financial source for key U.S-based climate change denial groups. [175]

February 17, 2017

In their quarterly performance report (first quarter, 2017), Joseph Bast writes that “The Heartland Institute’s primary goal over the next four years is to win the global warming war.” [165]

The full report features a prominent image of Rosie the Riveter. DeSmog noted that while “Bast’s litany of commonly debunked arguments against the science and threat of climate change isn’t notable, Heartland’s choice of imagery is proving to be.” [166], [167]

“To me, it seems like an obscene appropriation of feminist iconography, and I find it, frankly, offensive,” Sarah Myhre, University of Washington ocean and climate scientist, told DeSmog. “And I looked for a mention of women or women’s lives and there’s no mention of women in the article whatsoever.” [167]

“Bast’s article fails to make a single connection to women among his claims of 'fake science' and the scientific community being 'deeply divided and unsure over the causes and consequences of climate change',” DeSmog's Ashley Braun writes. [167]

“Those are the classic tropes that are used to inflame skepticism around the science that underlies climate change, so as to not have to look directly at the very difficult and challenging nature of economic change that is necessary to respond to the science,” Myhre told DeSmog. “I feel like I’ve read this little blurb a thousand times in other places.” [167]

According to Joe Bast, “Global warming isn’t just one of many public policy debates that free-market advocates need to win. It is a war, the most important and most consequential war of our era.” The report goes on to claim that there is no consensus on climate change: [166]

“Most scientists don’t believe computer models can predict future weather patterns or tell us whether global warming is a threat. Real peer-reviewed science shows the human impact on climate is probably too small to measure and not worth trying to prevent or undo,” the report claims. [166]

The report cites Heartland's own book, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, claiming it “zeroes in on the false
'consensus' claim and utterly demolishes it.” [166]

Heartland says that, in the coming months, it plans to “meetings with elected officials in 20 states, building on the success of past meetings and capitalizing on the new possibilities for passing legislation thanks to the results of the 2016 elections.” [166]

With Trump's announcement of abolishing the EPA, Heartland plans to “host a competition later this year for the best ideas for replacing EPA.” [166]

The report concludes with a call to action for donors: [166]

“Together, we can win the most important public policy battle of our era. The stakes could not be higher, or the opportunity greater. I hope you will join us.”[166]

January 12, 2017

Joseph Bast of the Heartland Institute was a signatory to a January 12, 2017 official letter of support (PDF) for Scott Pruitt, in which numerous groups, including The Heartland Institute, American Energy Alliance (AEA), and others, declared that the Senate should “swiftly approve his nomination” for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Other signatories of the letter included: [164]

Thomas Pyle, American Energy Alliance
Michael Needham, Heritage Action for America
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
Kent Lassman, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks
David McIntosh, Club for Growth
Phil Kerpen, American Commitment
Craig Richardson, Energy and Environment Action Team
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Harry Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce
Jim Martin , 60 Plus
Andrew Langer, Institute for Liberty
Heather Higgins, Independent Women’s Voice
Independence Institute
Richard Martin, Americans for Limited Government
Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST)
Brett Healy, MacIver Institute
George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom
Randy Eminger, Energy Policy Network
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Mike Nasi, Balanced Energy for Texas
Brent Mead, Montana Policy Institute
Forest Thigpen, Mississippi Center for Public Policy

January 9, 2017

The Heartland Institute announced that Frederick D. Palmer, Peabody Energy’s Senior Vice President of Government Relations, would be joining Heartland as a senior fellow on energy and climate.[162], [163]

Prior to working for Peabody Energy, Palmer was the CEO and general counsel of the Western Fuels Association, and also represented Western Fuels on the board of directors of the National Mining Association. [163]

December 29, 2016

The Heartland Institute announced that climate change denier Art Robinson, founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) and man behind the infamous “Oregon Petition,” would join its board of directors. The press release notes that Heartland had also named its Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy in honor of Robinson in 2015. [222]

Heartland Institute President Joseph L. Bast commented, “Art Robinson is as bold and brave a person as I have ever met. Having him join Heartland’s Board of Directors honors us and sends a signal to the world that we will continue to ‘speak truth to power’ on the important issue of climate change as well as the need for educational choice, repealing Obamacare, and other issues as well.” [222]

November 1, 2016

The Heartland Institute promoted a new report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) that criticizes President Obama's Clean Power Plan. [160]

“Under President Obama's Clean Power Plan, the poorest households could see their electricity costs rise by more than 10 percent of their income,” the Heartland Institute release notes. [160]

Wayne Winegarden, report author and PRI Senior Fellow writes: [160]

“Poor communities will be hit hard by the Clean Power Plan. Working-class neighborhoods across the nation could see rising power costs if the Obama Administration’s plan is implemented. I hope that America’s next President will review our findings very carefully when charting our country’s energy future, and pursue free-market policies that will alleviate the problem of energy poverty.” [160]

View the full report here (.pdf). [161]

August 31, 2016

The Heartland Institute hosted a debate between its Science Director Jay Lehr and Professor Scott Denning of Colorado State University who debated film clips from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The debate was to “determine how the movie has fared through the test of time on its 10th anniversary,” writes Nancy Thorner writes at the Heartland Institute's blog. [158]

View the entire 1.5-hour-long debate below: [159]

July 12, 2016

The Heartland Institute, represented by Joseph Bast, was among 22 groups represented in a “Coalition” open letter pushing back against what the Heartland Institute describes as an “affront to free speech.” The groups are responding to the recent Web of Denial Resolution brought up in the Senate, calling out fossil fuel industry-funded groups denying climate change. [149]

According to the Climate Investigations Center, all but one of the open letter's signatory organizations have taken money (totalling at least $92 million since 1997) from the “climate denial web” including Koch Brothers' various foundations, ExxonMobil, and two “Dark Money” organizations, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund. [152]

Championed by Senators Whitehouse, Markey, Schatz, Boxer, Merkley, Warren, Sanders, and Franken, the resolution condemns what they are calling the #WebOfDenial — “interconnected groups – funded by the Koch brothers, major fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal, identity-scrubbing groups like Donors Trust and Donors Capital, and their allies – developed and executed a massive campaign to deceive the public about climate change to halt climate action and protect their bottom lines.” [150]

The open letter addresses the senators, calling them “tyrants”:

“We hear you. Your threat is clear: There is a heavy and inconvenient cost to disagreeing with you. Calls for debate will be met with political retribution. That’s called tyranny. And, we reject it.” [151]

The full list of signatories and their respective organizations is as follows:

Grover Norquist — Americans for Tax Reform
Lisa B. Nelson — American Legislative Exchange Council
John A. Charles, Jr. — Cascade Policy Institute
David Rothbard — Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Kent Lassman — Competitive Enterprise Institute
Nicole Neily — Franklin Center for Government and Policy Integrity
Benita Dodd — Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Bridgett Wagner — The Heritage Foundation
Fred Birnbaum — Idaho Freedom Foundation
Joseph Bast — The Heartland Institute
J. Robert McClure III — James Madison Institute
Brett Healy — The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy
Kory Swanson — John Locke Foundation
Dave Trabert — Kansas Policy Institute
Jason Hayes — Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Brent Mead — Montana Policy Institute
Sharon J. Rossie — Nevada Policy Research Institute
Sally Pipes — Pacific Research Institute
Kevin Kane — Pelican Institute for Public Policy
Paul J. Gessing — Rio Grande Foundation
Lynn Taylor — Virginia Institute for Public Policy
Carol Platt Liebau — Yankee Institute for Public Policy

June 21, 2016

The Heartland Institute hosted an event titled “Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy” featuring Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White who “make an unapologetic case for fossil fuels.” The video description reads as follows (video below): [147]

“Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks to incredible innovations in the energy industry, fossil fuels are as promising, safe, and clean an energy resource as has ever existed in history. Yet, highly politicized climate policies are pushing a grand-scale shift to unreliable, impractical, incredibly expensive, and far less efficient energy sources. Today, 'fossil fuel' has become such a dirty word that even fossil fuel companies feel compelled to apologize for their products. In Fueling Freedom, energy experts Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White make an unapologetic case for fossil fuels, turning around progressives' protestations to prove that if fossil fuel energy is supplanted by 'green' alternatives for political reasons, humanity will take a giant step backwards and the planet will be less safe, less clean, and less free.” [147]

June 16, 2016

The Heartland Institute was one of the think tanks listed in subpoenas to ExxonMobil organized by a coalition of 17 attorneys general. [143], Joseph Bast responded to the subpoena, calling it a First Amendment right violation, a claim earlier echoed by ExxonMobil's own legal team. [144], [145]

“This is not only a violation of our First Amendment rights but a clear attempt to discourage funding from businesses of organizations that don't accept the Obama administration's take on climate change as absolute truth,” Bast said.

June 3, 2016

Isaac Orr, a Research Fellow for the Heartland Institute, suggests that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) makes air cleaner. According to Orr, “[…] the small, spherical grains of frac sand mined in the Upper Midwest are helping to bring cleaner air to the entire country.” [146]

June, 2016

The Heartland Institute was among organizations named in a Massachusetts subpoena looking for communications between ExxonMobil and organizations denying climate change, reports The Washington Times. [148]

Organizations named in the Massachusetts subpoena include the following: [148]

The Centre for Industrial Progress
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
The American Enterprise Institute
Americans for Prosperity
The American Legislative Exchange Council
The American Petroleum Institute
The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University
The George C. Marshall Institute
The Heartland Institute
Mercatus Center at George Mason University

This latest inquiry by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is one in a series of investigations into what ExxonMobil knew about climate change and when, started by a coalition of attorneys general in the US. [143]

March 9, 2016

Authors of the latest NIPCC report, “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,” convened at the Heartland Institute's new Andrew Breitbart Center for Freedom. According to the Heartland Institute's event description, “Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter and S. Fred Singer offer a detailed analysis of one of today’s most controversial topics: climate change” and “make a compelling case against claims of a scientific consensus.”

“Probably the most widely repeated claim in the debate over global warming is that '97% of scientists agree' that climate change is man-made and dangerous,” the authors write. “This claim is not only false, but its presence in the debate is an insult to science.” [138]

Notably, the “97% consensus” is supported by the Academis of Science from 80 countries and over 200 worldwide scientific organizations. [139], [140]

View the video below:

March 1, 2016

The Heartland Institute's president Joseph Bast announced the Andrew Breitbart Center for Freedom, a “public meeting space” that would be located at the Heartland Institute's new headquarters in Arlington Heights, Illinois. [131]

The launch included a poster honouring the late Andrew Breitbart, describing him as a “fearless defender of freedom and enemy of biased, lying mainstream media,” Right Wing Watch reports. [131]

Breitbart News faced controversy during 2016 election season, nicknamed “Trumpbart” by detractors. The Daily Beast writes “it is widely seen as a credulous purveyor of [Donald] Trump's angry populist, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim message, and as an enthusiastic booster of the reality show billionaire's candidacy.” [132]

Right Wing Watch notes that Glenn Beck accused Breitbart News of “having turned itself into an arm of the Trump campaign and likening its executive chairman, Steve Bannon, to Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels.” [133]

Video of Joseph Bast announcing the new Freedom Center below:

The Heartland Instituteoffers the following description on their website:

“Andrew Breitbart was a genuine American hero. He inspired millions of people to stand up and speak the truth about what is happening in America,” said Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute. “We could not be more pleased to have his name forever affixed to The Heartland Institute. We are honored that his family and friends believe this connection is a suitable addition to his legacy.” [134]

The Heartland Institute also plans a “dedication ceremony” in summer of 2016 which will feature a screening of 'Hating Breitbart,' a documentary “about Andrew Breitbart’s enormous impact on the media and the culture that was released one year after his death.” [134]

November 30, 2015

On the first day of the United Nations' twenty first conference of the parties (COP21) in Paris, the Heartland Institute's Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) published a book that “emphatically rejects claims of a 'scientific consensus' on the causes and consequences of climate change,” reads the Heartland press release. [127]

The NIPCC book is titled “Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Consensus.” Contrary to the book's premise, multiple studies and surveys have shown that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate warming trends over the past century are due to human activitities (NASA, for example). [128]

The book's authors include Craig D. Idso of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSCDGC), Robert M. Carter of the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA), and S. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). The NIPCC itself is sponsored by the CSCDGC, SEPP, and the Heartland Institute. [127]

CSDGC, IPA, and SEPP are all secretive about their funding sources. Still, available data shows they have received significant funding from ExxonMobil, Donors Capital Fund, Scaife, and Koch-related Foundations. Below is a brief summary based on data collected from ExxonSecrets and the Conservative Transparency Project:

	CSCDGC	IPA	SEPP	Total
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation	$90,000	$229,000		$319,000
Donors Capital Fund	$283,800			$283,800
Exxon Mobil	$100,000		$20,000	$120,000
John M. Olin Foundation		$119,000		$119,000
Sarah Scaife Foundation	$100,000			$100,000
Heartland Institute			$15,000	$15,000
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation			$5,000	$5,000
Deramus Foundation	$1,000			$1,000
Grand Total	$574,800	$348,000	$40,000	$962,800

August 25, 2015

The Heartland Institute co-sponsored the “Affordable Energy Summit 8.0” with the Libertarian Party of Nevada in Las Vegas, where James Taylor was a speaker. [124] According to the Affordable Energy Summit's “Events” webpage, the purpose of the summit was to “discuss the costs of climate change, as well as the fiscal and environmental impact of the so-called 'Clean Power Plan.'” [125]

The “Events” page of the Affordable Energy Summit's website goes on to state that the speakers at the National Clean Energy Summit, which took place just one day earlier, “believe that evidence of man-made global warming is enough to justify any action intended to solve the problem, without regard for effectiveness and without any regard for the expense.” [125]

James Taylor wrote in Forbes that, “Unlike the Clean Energy Summit, the Affordable Energy Summit will present the full picture on energy, economics, and the environment.” Taylor asserts that wind and solar power initiatives are “not only prohibitively expensive, but they produce worse environmental damage than the conventional power Obama and Reid seek to vilify.” [126]

March 3-4, 2015

The Heartland Institute issued statements in defense of Willie Soon in the wake of his recently published paper titled “Why Models Run Hot: Results From an Irreducibly Simple Climate Model,” published in January 2015 in China's Science Bulletin Journal. Co-authors of the paper included Lord Christopher Monckton, Professor David Legates, and Dr. William Briggs.

James M. Taylor's defense of soon is available here, and one by Robert M. Carter here. Bob Carter is an expert or advisor to over 10 climate skeptic organizations including the Global Warming Policy Foundation, International Climate Science Coalition, Science and Public Policy Institute, Australian Climate Science Coalition, and New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. His background is in geology. [75], [76]

Shortly after the Science Bulletin paper's release, a number of sources reported on Soon's connection to fossil fuel funding, including 11 papers he published since 2008 in which ommited disclosure of a potential conflict of interest. In their February 21 article titled Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher, The New York Times reports how “in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.” [77]

As of 2001, the Climate Investigations Center found that Soon had received $1,573,270 in funding, with “known fossil fuel funding” tabulated at $1,248,471. Coal electricity generator Southern Company, Exxon, Donors Trust, the Charles G. Koch Foundation and the American Petroleum Institute have all contributed. [78]

Soon released his own statement (PDF) on March 2, which was published on the Heartland Institute's website. [79]

April 27/28, 2015

The Heartland Institute sent a team to the Vatican City where they held a press conference in order to “inform Pope Francis of the truth about climate science” and claims to set out a “case explaining why climate science does not justify the Holy See putting its faith in the work of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”

Lord Christopher Monckton, Dr Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance, and Marc Morano from CFACT all spoke at the conference, and the event was further covered by DesMog UK's Brendan Montague, who attended. [80]

Rome Heartland Vatican Audience

^{Nine journalists made up the audience at Heartland's press conference. Photo by Brendan Montague.}

Monckton encouraged the Pope not to make a statement on climate change, saying “You will be kicking the poor in the teeth. Stand back, listen to both sides, and do not take sides in politics.” Heartland stated their intent was to “dissuade Pope Francis from lending his moral authority to the politicized and unscientific climate agenda of the United Nations.” [81]

Heartland President Joe Bast claims that Pope Francis is being “misled by 'experts' at the United Nations who have proven unworthy of his trust,” and that “Humans are not causing a climate crisis on God’s Green Earth – in fact, they are fulfilling their Biblical duty to protect and use it for the benefit of humanity.”

The Heartland Institute's event included presentations from the following:

E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Hal Doiron, former NASA Skylab and Space Shuttle engineer
Richard Keen, Ph.D., meteorology instructor at the University of Colorado
Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)
Marc Morano, executive editor and chief correspondent, ClimateDepot.com
Tom Sheahen, Ph.D., vice chairman of the Science and Environmental Policy Project Board of Directors
Elizabeth Yore, J.D., former General Counsel at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Virginia

Joe Bast has also stated “Catholics who would put ‘sustainability’ ahead of human freedom are out of step with the most important teachings of their faith.” [82]

The Heartland Institute's campaign included a series of presentations and press conferences in Rome. Searches for Pope Francis and Climate Change reveal they have also bid on AdWords to direct searches to the Heartland Institute website (see below).

Pope Francis Global Warming

Screenshot taken from Google, May 21, 2015.

July, 2014

At the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) annual meeting in Dallas, Heartland Institue President Joseph Bast led a workshop where he argued the following (as reported by the Centre for Media and Democracy): [83]

“There is no scientific consensus on the human role in climate change.”
“There is no need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and no point in attempting
to do so.”
“Carbon dioxide has not caused weather to become more extreme, polar ice and
sea ice to melt, or sea level rise to accelerate. These were all false alarms.”
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “is not a credible source of
science or economics.”
“The likely benefits of manmade global warming exceed the likely costs.”

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) led a workshop at the same meeting called “Climate change talking points 2014.”

October 29, 2014

The Heartland Institute's “energy and environment experts” commented on the ruling by the Health Board of Brown County, Wisconsin, declaring wind turbines a “human health hazard.”Tom Harris writes that “without taxpayer funded subsidies, large wind turbine projects are not economically viable … However, the government funds them regardless because of the appearance that their use helps 'fight climate change.'” [84],[85]

Harris continues:

“More importantly, the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity is damaging the climate has been thoroughly debunked by reports such as those of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. So, the main reason the government funds wind power is no longer valid.”

September 26, 2014

The Heartland Institute releases a post in their policy and commentary blog, Somewhat Reasonable, titled, “Alex Epstein Loves Fossil Fuels, Mixing it Up with Climate Marchers in NYC,” describing Alex Epstein's “courageous” visit to the People's Climate March. Within the post, Heartland encourages viewers to watch all four of Epstein's videos from the People's Climate March, share the videos with friends, “check out Alex Epstein's organization [Center for Industrial Progress], and read the first chapter of his new book,” which is titled, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. [86]

August, 2014

The Heartland Institute's President Joseph Bast testified at a Travis County Texas court hearing regarding the Texas Taxpayers' Savings Grant Programs (“TTSGP”). The court questions Bast's credibility as a witness (PDF, p. 335 - 336):

“Mr. Joseph Bast, president and CEO of the Heartland Institute, testified for the Intervenors regarding the Texas Taxpayers’ Savings Grant Programs (“TTSGP”), a school voucher bill that failed in the 82nd Legislative Session. As a threshold matter, this Court finds that Mr. Bast is not a credible witness and that he did not offer reliable opinions in this matter. While Mr. Bast described himself as an economist, he holds neither undergraduate nor graduate degrees in economics, and the highest level of education he completed was high school. Mr. Bast testified that he is 100% committed to the long-term goal of getting government out of the business of educating its own voting citizens. Further, his use of inflammatory and irresponsible language regarding global warming, and his admission that the long term goal of his advocacy of vouchers is to dismantle the 'socialist' public education system further undermine his credibility with this Court.” [87]

July, 2014

Jay Lehr, science director and senior fellow, writes a Policy Brief for the Heartland Institute entitled, “Replacing the Environmental Protection Agency,” which he describes in the abstract as a “plan to replace the United States Environmental Protection Agency with a Committee of the Whole of the 50 state environmental protection agencies, utilizing a phased five-year transition period.” [88]

Within the Policy Brief, Lehr writes that the ten years following the establishment of the EPA in 1971 he “helped write a significant number of legislative bills that were to make up a true safety net for our environment,” including, “Water Pollution Control Act (later renamed the Clean Water Act), Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (which, surprisingly, covered deep mines as well), Clean Air Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (which we now know as Superfund).”

Following Lehr’s ten-year period of legislative bill writing, he notes in the brief that “around 1981, liberal activist groups recognized EPA could be used to advance their political agenda by regulating virtually all human activities regardless of their impact on the environment … Since that time, not a single environmental law or regulation has been passed that benefitted either the environment or society … Today, EPA is all but a wholly owned subsidiary of liberal activist groups.”

Lehr concludes the Policy Brief by writing “it’s time for the national EPA to go,” and that “the path forward is now clear and simple: A five-year transition from a federal government bureaucracy to a Committee of the Whole composed of the 50 state environmental protection … All that is missing is the political will.”

June, 2014

The Heartland Institute sponsored an advertorial section in the Washington Times where they offer the chance for anyone to publish a challenge to the science behind climate change (at the cost of $10,000 for the right to be published.) Lindsay Abrams reports in a Salon article titled ”Attention, climate deniers: For just $10,000, your Op-Ed can be featured in the Washington Times.” [89], [90]

Below is the email originally sent around by The Washington Times:

As you may know, The Heartland Institute is hosting a Washington Times Special section to showcase organizations and scientists from around the world who question whether “man-made global warming” will be harmful to plants, animals, or human welfare. This section will be featured prominently at the 9th International Conference on Climate Change next week.

With this, you are invited to be a part of this special print and digital section with an op-ed in print and digital formats.

You can support the section and have the chance to write an edit and compliment the issue with a full page, full color display ad for your organization for just $10,000. The section will appear online at www.washingtontimes.com and will be advertised with over a million impressions online and with over 500,000 emails.

SPACE IS LIMITED and we are closing space on the issue very soon – Deadline is END OF DAY FRIDAY for a reservation and next Monday to coordinate details/edit/Ad.

Anyway, please call or email as soon as possible if you would like to participate.

Thanks and look forward to our discussion.

Joe Corbe

The Washington Times

April 30, 2014

At a mining conference in Denver, CO, Republic Report, cross-posted on DeSmogBlog, spoke to Heartland Institute's president, Joseph Bast, about his past support for the tobacco industry. When first asked by Republic Report, Bast denied that he had ever dismissed concerns about the risks of smoking. [91]

In a report entitled, “Please Don't Poop in My Salad,” (PDF) released by Heartland and written by Bast in July of 2006, Bast was quoted on page 57 (pg. 65 in PDF format), “A fourth lie is that even moderate smoking is deadly. Several experts (including two who are very anti-smoking) have told me that smoking fewer than seven cigarettes a day does not raise a smoker's risk of lung cancer.” [92]

Reporter Lee Fang captured Bast's response to the statement: [93]

“In 1998, you wrote in a Heartland op-ed that smoking cigarettes has little to no adverse health effects,” we noted. “Do you stand by that?”

“No, I never wrote that,” replied Bast. “Why would I have written something like that?” Bast asked to see the op-ed, and promised to “contest” it. Later, Republic Report returned and read Bast's op-ed to him.

March 31, 2014

The Heartland Institute released their latest NIPCC (Non Intergovernemntal Panel on Climate Change) Report. As reported by Kert Davies at the Climate Investigations Center (”CIC Briefing: Craig Idso Heartland Institute NIPCC Climate Denial”) and in a repost at DeSmogBlog, much of the report's messaging (the idea that more CO2 is beneficial) can be traced back to Craig Idso, who is also one of the lead authors. [94]

The Heartland Institute NIPCC report concludes that “rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are causing 'no net harm to the global environment or to human health and often finds the opposite: net benefits to plants, including important food crops, and to animals and human health,'” as reported on the Heartland Institute press release. The full report, titled Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts can also be viewed here (PDF), and the Summary for Policy Makers (PDF) here. [95]

Lead Authors/Editors

Contributing Authors and Reviewers

David J. Barnes
Raymond A. Cloyd
Susan Crockford
Weihong Cui
Kees DeGroot
Robert G. Dillon
John Dale Dunn
Ole Henrik Ellestad
Fred Goldberg
Barry Goldman
H. Dickson Hoese
Morten Jødal
Madhav Khandekar
Miroslav Kutilek
Steven W. Leavitt
Howard Maccabee
Jennifer Marohasy
Cliff Ollier
Jim Petch
Robert J. Reginato
Paul Reiter
Tom Segalstad
Gary Sharp
Walter Starck
David Stockwell
Mitchell Taylor
Gerd Weber
Bastow Wilson
Raphael Wust

Editors

Diane Carol Bast
S.T. Karnick

August 8, 2013

As reported by the Centre for Media and Democracy, the American Legislative Exchance Council (ALEC) teamed up with the Heartland Institute to hose a session on Climate Change. The workshop cost $40,000 to sponsor and featured Heartland President Joseph Bast. [96]

June 11, 2013

The Heartland Institute released a statement detailing how the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) had translated two volumes of its NIPCC reports – Climate Change Reconsidered. [116]

The main contributors to the reports, Craig Idso, Fred Singer, and Australia-based Robert Carter, were due to fly to Beijing to launch the report, Heartland said.

On June 12, Jim Lakely, Heartland’s communications director, reported on Heartland's blog Somewhat Reasonable under the headline “Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes Heartland Institute research skeptical of Global Warming.” Lakely wrote that CAS’s translation now placed “enormous scientific heft” behind the “questionable notion that man is responsible for catastrophically warming the planet.”

Lakely quotes Heartland President Joseph Bast as saying: “This is a historic moment in the global debate about global warming.” [117]

Joseph Bast also commented that China’s previous refusal to sign a deal was now justified because CAS had translated the Heartland book and this “indicates the country’s leaders believe their position is justified by science and not just by economics.” Robert Carter told Lakely that Chinese companies would soon leave their Western counterparts in the competitive dust becuase, he said, they were still “hindered by the IPCC’s leaden and outdate global warming ideology.”

Anthony Watts also ran a post on his blog, WUWT, with the title “Heartland's NIPCC report to be accepted by Chinese Academy of Sciences in special ceremony.” [118]

The Lanzhou Branch of the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which carried out the translation, later released a statement in response: [119]

“…The Heartland Institute published the news titled 'Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes Heartland Institute research skeptical of Global Warming' in a strongly misleading way on its website, implying that the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) supports their views, in contrary to what is clearly stated in the Translators’ Note in the Chinese translation. The claim of the Heartland Institute about CAS’ endorsement of its report is completely false.

In fact, the translation was 'purely non-official academic activities [of] the group of translators' and 'they do not represent, nor they have ever claimed to represent, CAS or any of CAS institutes.'

The above fact was made very clear in the Translators’ Note in the book, and was known to the NIPCC report authors and the Heartland Institute before the translation started. The false claim by the Heartland Institute was made public without any knowledge of the translator group. Since there is absolutely no ground for the so called CAS endorsement of the report, and the actions by the Heartland Institute went way beyond acceptable academic integrity, we have requested by email to the president of the Heartland Institute that the false news on its website to be removed.

We also requested that the Institute issue a public apology to CAS for the misleading statement on the CAS endorsement. If the Heartland Institute does not withdraw its false news or refuse to apologize, all the consequences and liabilities should be borne by the Heartland Institute. We reserve the right for further actions to protect the rights of CAS and the translators group.”

The overarching Chinese Academy of Sciences also issued a statement urging the public to ignore Heartland’s “misleading information”. Heartland promptly deleted all pages and Joseph Bast issued an apology: Jim Lakely. [120]

“Some people interpreted our news release and a blog post describing this event as implying that the Chinese Academy of Sciences endorses the views contained in the original books. This is not the case, and we apologize to those who may have been confused by these news reports. To be clear, the release of this new publication does not imply CAS and any of its affiliates involved with its production 'endorse' the skeptical views contained in the report. Rather, as stated in the translator's preface of the book, 'The work of these translators, organizations and funders has been in the translation and the promotion of scientific dialogue, does not reflect that they agree with the views of NIPCC.”

2012 - Proposed Projects

Global Warming Curriculum

The Heartland Institute proposes to fund a “Global Warming Curriculum” for K-12 schools. They claim that there is an absence of educational materials that are not “alarmist or overtly political,” and that teachers are “heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective” (see p. 18, “2012 Fundraising Plan”).

Heartland tentatively plans to pay climate change skeptic David Wojick (whose main work has been as a policy analyst) $5,000 per module in 2012, with the first $100,000 pledged by the Anonymous Donor.

The modules would cover how “whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy,” how climate models' “reliability is controversial,” and “whether CO2 is a pollutant is controversial. It is the global food supply and natural emissions are 20 times higher than human emissions.”

For grades 7-9, Wojick would examine how “environmental impact is often difficult to determine. For example, there is a major controversy over whether or not humans are changing the weather.”

Hydraulic Fracturing Project

Another project proposed by Heartland for 2012, The Hydraulic Fracturing Project (p. 18 - 19, “2012 Fundraising Plan”) would “raise funds from businesses with a financial interest in fracking” by “approach[ing] dozens of companies and trade associations that are actively seeking allies in this battle.”

While Heartland claims that “Fracking has been safely used for more than 50 years,” our recent DeSmogBlog report Fracking the Future suggests otherwise.

The Heartland Institute has already identified itself as “one of the most outspoken defenders of fracking in the U.S., using Environment & Climate News, its Web sites, and its PR and GR operations to comment repeated on the issue and reach large audiences.”

Weather Stations Project

Heartland proposes to fund a new web site by Anthony Watts devoted to accessing temperature data from the National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and “converting them into easy-to-understand graphs that can be easily understood by weathermen and the general interested public” (p.18, Heartland's 2012 “Fundraising Plan”).

According to Heartland, examples of when temperature records are broken in the U.S. are “often used by environmental extremists” as evidence of climate change. Presumably Watts's new site, which will be “promoted heavily at WattsUpWithThat.com,” would portray temperature data in a way to counteract this.

Heartland agreed to help Watts raise $88,000 from the project in 2011, and the Anonymous Donor pledged $44,000 so far in 2012. According to Heartland, they have previously supported and promoted Watts' past work “exposing flaws in the current network of temperature stations.”

November, 2009

In February 2009, hundreds of emails from climate change experts at the University of East Anglia were unlawfully obtained through hacking a server. The Climate Research Unit hacking incident became known as Climategate by global warming skeptics, a term used extensively by the Heartland Institute.

The Heartland Institute published the illegally hacked documents in an attempt to discredit the scientists who were researching the man-made connection to global warming. At the time, Heartland President Joseph Bast wrote:

“The release of these documents creates an opportunity for reporters, academics, politicians, and others who relied on the IPCC to form their opinions about global warming to stop and reconsider their position. The experts they trusted and quoted in the past have been caught red-handed plotting to conceal data, hide temperature trends that contradict their predictions, and keep critics from appearing in peer-reviewed journals. This is new and real evidence that they should examine and then comment on publicly.” [97]

Some accused the Heartland Institute of hypocrisy when they responded to documents revealing their 2012 plans and budget. (“I still can't get over how hypocritical Heartland Institute is being about this, given how it delighted in seeing climate scientists’ e-mails hacked in the 2009 'Climategate' non-scandal,” wrote Tyler Hamilton at The EnergyCollective.) [98]

In 2012, Heartland had this response to their own leaked documents:

“…honest disagreement should never be used to justify the criminal acts and fraud that occurred in the past 24 hours. As a matter of common decency and journalistic ethics, we ask everyone in the climate change debate to sit back and think about what just happened.

Those persons who posted these documents and wrote about them before we had a chance to comment on their authenticity should be ashamed of their deeds, and their bad behavior should be taken into account when judging their credibility now and in the future.” [99]

March, 2009

The Heartland Institute released their “Skeptic's Handbook,” printing 150,000 copies for distribution across the US including 850 journalists, 26,000 schools, “19,000 leaders and politicians.“ The mass printing was funded by an “Anonymous Donor.“ [100]

In 2008, the Center for Media and Democracy reports how the Heartland Institute also sent out “more than 11,000 brochures and DVDs to Canadian schools urging them to teach their students that scientists are exaggerating how human activity is the driving force behind global warming.” [101]

2008

The Heartland Institute and an “anonymous donor” funded a video, produced by the Idea Channel, titled “Unstoppable Solar Cycles: Rethinking Global Warming.”

One subject interviewed, Rie Oldenburg, curator of the Narsaq Museum, claims that she was tricked into participating. She said she had been told she was contributing to a video on Norse history, and was shocked to learn that the DVD denied the human contribution to climate change. [102]

A version of the video was distributed to schools by the advocacy organization Izzit.org, and included a “Teacher's Guide” (PDF) and lesson plan. [103]

HI's description of Unstoppable Solar Cycles questions man's influence on climate change:

“The best available records of temperature and atmospheric CO2 over the past 650,000 years indicate that the earth's temperature always rises first, followed by a rise in carbon dioxide. If a warmer earth leads to increased levels of CO2-and not the other way around-can humans' use of fossil fuels be the cause of global warming? Shouldn't this critical question remain open to scientific inquiry?” [104]

Note that this specific argument has been debunked, with a summary available at SkepticalScience.

September, 2007

The Heartland Institute promoted a list of “500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares,” originally produced by Dennis Avery for the Hudson Institute.

DeSmogBlog contacted 122 of the scientists, and 45 replied in outrage. They said that their research did not support Avery's conclusions, and demanded that their names be removed from the list.

In response to the complaints, the Heartland Institute changed the title of the document to “500 Scientists Whose Research Contradicts Man-Made Global Warming Scares,” but refused to remove any names from the list.

They responded, saying that the authors, “have no right – legally or ethically – to demand that their names be removed from a bibliography composed by researchers with whom they disagree,” and that “We did not ask for those authors' permission, nor do we seek their permission now.” [105]

Joseph Bast concluded that the “complaining scientists have crossed the line between scientific research and policy advocacy.” [106]

April 2, 2007

The Heartland Institute promoted challenges by Lord Christopher Monckton and Dennis Avery to debate Al Gore on global warming. [107]

Heartland ran advertisements in the New York Times and other media promoting the requested debate.

January 15, 2007

Heartland published a “Guidebook for State Legislators” which, among other advice, suggests that legislators “should oppose unnecessary and costly global warming programs.” [108]

Bast has also published his own “Legislative Principles Series” (PDF), which was “written especially for elected officials and other opinion leaders.” [109]

November, 2006

Heartland sponsored a talk by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery titled “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years.”

Scientists at Realclimate reported and responded with a point/counterpoint discussion. [110]

August 2, 2002

The Heartland Institute wrote to President Bush, discouraging him from attending the UN Summit on Sustainable Development. Bush did not attend.

Representatives from other right-wing organizations including Americans for Tax Reform, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute also contributed to the letter. [111]

October 3, 2000

According to ExxonSecrets, Heartland filed a lawsuit against President Clinton for increasing funding for a report on climate change by the US Global Change Research Program. [112]

April 2, 1996

Heartland published “Earth Day '96,” (PDF) a compilation of articles on environmental topics. The publication, distributed on college campuses, featured “Adventures in the Ozone Layer” by S. Fred Singer, and “the Cold Facts on Global Warming” by Sallie Baliunas. The articles denied the serious nature of ozone depletion and global warming. [113]

1990s - Defending Tobacco

The Heartland Institute has consistently defended the tobacco industry, and has received funding from numerous tobacco companies including Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds.

Reproduced below is a 1999 letter from Joseph Bast to Roy Marden of Phillip Morris courtesy of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (see original PDF) that illustrates Heartland's stance on tobacco (Emphasis Added). Note that John Mashey refers to this letter in his report (p. 44) as potential evidence of Heartland's role as a lobbying organization.

July 27, 1999

Mr. Roy Marden
Manager of Industry Affairs
Philip Morris Management Cos.
120 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017

Dear Roy:

Thank you for inviting me to request renewed general operating support for The Heartland Institute for 1999. I note that Philip Morris contributed $5,000 last August (for a Gold Table at our annual benefit) and $25,000 in October (general operating support). It also has allowed you to serve on our Board of Directors, which has produced many positive results for the entire organization.

Because Heartland does many things that benefit Philip Morris' bottom line, things that no other organization does, I hope you will consider boosting your general operating support this year to $30,000 and once again reserve a Gold Table for an additional $5,000.

We genuinely need your financial support. Maybe by the end of this letter you'll agree that we merit even greater support; I certainly hope so!

Working with State Elected Officials

Unlike any other free-market think tank, Heartland's primary audience is the nation's 7,500 state elected officials. We reach them more often, and generate from them more requests for research, than any other think tank in the country.

PolicyFax, Heartland's free fax-on-demand information service for journalists and elected officials, received approximately 700 calls a month from state legislators and members of their staffs during 1998

Over 110 elected state officials now serve on the PolicyFax Advisory Board, meaning they have volunteered to help choose documents and topics to feature on the service. Among pro-market groups, only ALEC has more state legislators involved in their programs.

Every state and national elected official in the U.S. receives a steady stream of publications from Heartland — four periodicals and less regular mailings of policy studies and other documents — that have been designed to fill their information needs. Heartland is one of very few organizations that treats elected officials as customers, not opponents.

Supporting State-Based Think Tanks

Heartland works with ALEC and the State Policy Network to support conservative and freemarket think tanks around the country. Heartland does as much as either of these organizations to support the state-based think tank movement. For example:

PolicyFax features 6,000 documents from some 300 think tanks and advocacy groups, including all of the members of State Policy Network. PolicyFax is free for both the users and the groups that provide documents, and Heartland reports back to the publisher each month with information about how often its documents were ordered.

Heartland's Intellectual Ammunition is the only magazine sent to all 8,000 state and national elected officials featuring the work of free-market policy analysts on the staffs of Heritage, NCPA, CEI, the Tax Foundation, Reason Foundation, Center for the Study of American Business, and other think tanks.

Issues of three Heartland publications — the bimonthly Intellectual Ammunition and monthly School Reform News and Environment News — contain directories of freemarket groups and feature the work of other think tanks. Heartland is the only organization in the country that regularly promotes the work of other think tanks.

Work on Tobacco-related Issues

Heartland has devoted considerable attention to defending tobacco (and other industries) from what I view as being an unjust campaign of public demonization and legal harassment. We're an important voice defending smokers and their freedom to use a still-legal product.

Tobacco is well represented on PolicyFax and in the quarterly PolicyFax Updates. In recent months we posted Brill's Content's expose of EPA's corrupt science on secondhand smoke and essays by Patrick Reilly for Capital Research Center, Jacob Sullum for Reason Foundation, Matt Kibbe for CSE,. J.D. Foster for the Tax Foundation, and Sean Paige for Insight. Some 21 articles on tobacco are available through PolicyFax.

Intellectual Ammunition has carried two articles defending the tobacco industry since last October: the cover story of the March/April 1999 issue (“Lifting the Skirts of 'Progressive' Demonizers”) and my essay, “Dear Melissa: A Civil Libertarian's Perspective on the War against Smoking.”

The Heartlander, our monthly newsletter for members, has called attention to the dangerous legal precedents and discriminatory taxes that are part of the campaign against tobacco in cover essays appearing in the October, November, and June issues.

Recent and past Heartland publications on tobacco, including a Heartland Policy Study and several Perspectives, and the 21 documents on the subject available from PolicyFax, are all available on Heartland's Web site. Particularly popular are two of my essays, titled “Five Lies About Tobacco” and “Joe Camel is Innocent.”

Coming Up

We expect to continue publishing School Reform News, Environment News, Intellectual Ammunition, and The Heartlander in the months ahead. Changing PolicyFax from a fax-on-demand service to an Internet-based service begins this week with the conversion of all 6,000 documents available from PolicyFax into a format that will enable them to be viewed or downloaded directly from the Web site.

We are also revamping our Web site to bring together into one place all the material on tobacco — the policy study, op-eds, PolicyFax documents, and Heartlander essays — and identify it as the “Smoker's Lounge” on the homepage. And we have discussed producing an Instant Expert Guide to Tobacco Litigation and reproducing an analysis done of the effect of a federal lawsuit against the tobacco industry on the level of payments states can expect to receive. Both of these projects are likely to come about in the coming months (though the latter only if it is still timely).
Funding Request
Roy, please consider renewing Philip Morris' general operating support of The Heartland Institute at the slightly higher level of $30,000. We rely heavily on companies like yours to produce a program that is every bit as ambitious and perhaps more effective than anything produced by a Washington D.C.-based group.

Please don't hesitate to give me a call if you have questions or advice. I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Joseph L. Bast
President

Heartland Institute Contact & Address

As of May, 2016, the Heartland Institute's address and contact information was listed as follows: [142]

The Heartland Institute
3939 North Wilke Road
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004
Phone: 312/377-4000
Fax: 312/275-7942
Email: think@heartland.org

Related Organizations

Some of Heartland connections:

“Associate Member,” State Policy Network.

Member of the Cooler Heads Coalition.

Formerly sponsored and hosted www.climatesearch.org.

“ClimateWiki” is listed under “Heartland sites” on Heartland's website. www.climatesearch.org originally redirected to ClimateWiki, and appears to be defunct.

Publications

The Heartland Institute publishes six newspapers:

They also publish a monthly newsletter titled The Heartlander and there is also an online Heartlander Magazine that appears to cover similar issues to their six individual newspapers.

Possibly most notable among these newspapers is Environment & Climate News (E&CN) which frequently features topics skeptical of climate change, and has a history of posting articles in favor of tobacco.

John Mashey devotes a large portion of his report (see p.82) to analysis of Environment and Climate News from June 2011 through January 2012 (approximately 1700 pages).

Resources

The following Heartland Institute documents (apart from the IRS Form 990, which is a public document) were released by an anonymous source on February 14, 2012 (climate scientist Peter Gleick has since come forward as the source of the release):

**The Heartland Institute disputes the authenticity of the 2012 climate strategy, claiming the document is a “fake,” and has threatened DeSmogBlog with legal action. However, the organization has yet to provide concrete evidence to support these allegations.

Mashey Report

John Mashey published the following report, also on February 14, 2012, that examines the finances of the Heartland Institute and two other like-minded organizations:

John R. Mashey. “Fake Science, fakesperts, funny finances, free of tax: SEPP, Heartland, CSCDGC, allies & DONORS” (PDF), February 14, 2012.

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