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Skeptics Dare Heartland Institute to Take Up $25,000 Climate Challenge

gregladen | June 15, 2015

This is a press release from the Center for Inquiry: Skeptics Dare Heartland Institute to Take Up $25,000 Climate Challenge A leading science advocacy group is throwing down the gauntlet to the Heartland Institute, a group that claims that global warming stopped in 1998, with a stark, simple challenge: If the 30-year average global land surface temperature goes up in 2015, setting a new record, the Heartland Institute must donate $25,000 to a science education nonprofit. The challenge is presented by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), a program of the Center for Inquiry, which held…

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