Yesterday PRI's The World ran a five minute news report (audio) on The Heartland Institute's climate change conference to which I contributed analysis. Also at their web site, they feature an extended 6 minute interview where I provide further background and analysis on the Heartland Institute's framing strategy, describing why the flat earth message continues to be so successful with American audiences (audio). For more on HI's message strategy see these two previous posts (the cable news effect & the similarity to the intelligent design campaign.)
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I just got this email. I have no way of telling if it is authentic:
February 18, 2012
By e-mail to: greg@gregladen.com
By Federal Express to:
This seems to be fairly big news. The Heartland Institute is a conservative and libertarian "think" tank that cut its teeth on denying the dangers of cigarette smoking back in the 1990s.
A secret fundraising document from a shadowy anti-science institute was accidentally made public. The document candidly lays out the anti-science agenda of group, including efforts to undermine science education in public schools, but also plans to broadly redefine society.
Not to spoil the surprise, the answer is: I dunno, but the Arbiter is [was] bored.