And now a word from the alternate universe …
The conservative Heartland Institute released its “Nongovernmental International Panel of Climate Change” at a press conference today. The name is a play off the U.N.’s “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” which documented scientific evidence for global warming in 2007. Pretty witty, huh?
Former University of Virginia professor Fred Singer, a co-author of the report who was described at the conference as “the godfather of global warming realists,” discusses the report here. I gotta warn you, though — for a PR stunt, this clip is kind of a snoozer.
More on the PR and media outfall from this later. If you have any insights or tips, please leave comments here for others.
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Bob Burton on
Thu, 4th Jun 2009 4:58 pm
Hi,
For more background information on the Heartland Institute see http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute
cheers
Bob Burton
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