October 26, 2013
Heartland Institute sends climate disinformation to U.S. educators
By Mark McCaffrey
25 October 2013(National Center for Science Education) – The Heartland Institute, the organization that brought you the widely spoofed Unabomber billboard, the faux International Climate Change Conference, and that has been working on a curriculum for middle and high school students designed to teach controversy and confusion, is at it again. Heartland just sent out copies of the “Summary for Policy Makers” of its already discredited Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) to educators, asking teachers to, in effect, forget that the National Academies agrees that human activities are seriously impacting the climate system, and instead teach doubt and denial. [more]
