Flat earth firsters?

A celebration of hot air on Broadway

Posted by Frank O'Donnell (Guest Contributor) at 9:43 AM on 29 Feb 2008

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No, you couldn't make this one up.

It's a meeting, starting Sunday, of hundreds of "scientists" and propagandists, convening to denounce the proposition that global warming is real.

It's like a gathering of the Flat Earth Society. Or, since this meeting literally is taking place on Broadway, it recalls the great Preston Jones play, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, which did run briefly on Broadway.

The meeting is under the aegis of the Heartland Institute, a corporate-funded outfit which, among other things, funnels "free-enterprise" propaganda to malleable state lawmakers.

Many of the organizing sponsors and speakers have financial history with big companies such as ExxonMobil. Even some of the "international" co-sponsors (such as the Alternate Solutions Institute of Pakistan) receive money from foundations that have received money from ExxonMobil. (Pakistan!?)

So get ready for a celebration of hot air -- and see if they denounce Galileo while they are at it.

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At least it's in New York...

...where they are having record cold and snowfalls...they don't go to tropical places...like Hawaii, Bali or Tahiti...places where the AGWers have their conferences.

Oh, I don't see that this is sponsored by any taxpayer monies or "international funds" either.

by jabailo at 9:51 AM on 29 Feb 2008

Be weary...

...of any organization with the word "heartland" in it. That word right there alone screams propoganda.

by Tasermons Partner at 10:00 AM on 29 Feb 2008

Bike in called for

Clog the whole region, before, during, and after the conference. Like injecting crisco into the circulatory system. Dunk these doughey limboob nuts.

Easiest way to stop the beast in it's tracks? Clog the heart.

Yes we can! Yes we can!

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

by amazingdrx at 10:00 AM on 29 Feb 2008

Funding...

Oh, I don't see that this is sponsored by any taxpayer monies or "international funds" either.

Uh, duh. We just said that it was funded mostly by BIG ENERGY COMPANIES. * rolls eyes *

by Tasermons Partner at 10:03 AM on 29 Feb 2008

Did Stupid School Just End Session

"BIG ENERGY COMPANIES"

Which are what? Private enterprise, owned by anyone with enough money to buy the stock.

If you don't like the behavior of Exxon, then get a job, by the company and tell everyone to STFU.

by jabailo at 11:54 AM on 29 Feb 2008

Public stocks =/= public interests

Which are what? Private enterprise, owned by anyone with enough money to buy the stock.

jabailo, apparently ya need to take some economics courses. Just because a company is publicly traded, that doesn't mean that the public itself knowingly funding this effort or that they necessarily approve of this action.

Do ya think everyone who owned Enron stock approved of their actions and encouraged their company to act the way it did?

The stock owners didn't get together and say, "we want ya to use the money from our investments to support this forum".

There's a difference between a publicly funded forum and a corprate funded forum.

by Tasermons Partner at 3:30 PM on 29 Feb 2008

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