science. Institute was also planning on trying to prevent important publication outlets like Forbes from allowing climate change scientists to talk – to put in direct words from Heartland from one of their internal memos : “Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective. To counter this we are considering launching an effort to develop alternative materials for K-12 classrooms. We are pursuing a proposal from Dr. David Wojick to produce a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools. Dr. Wojick is a consultant with the office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science. His effort will focus on providing a curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain–two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science. We tentatively plan to pay Dr. Wojick $100,000 for 20 modules in 2012, with funding pledged by the Anonymous Donor.” It seems this private-interest organization has been wanting to prevent any discussion or research on the subject, and prevent any publication of such findings in any mainstream publications and news outlets : “Efforts at places such as Forbes are especially important now that they have begun to allow high-profile climate scientists (such as [Peter] Gleick) to post warmist science essays that counter our own. This influential audience has usually been reliably anti-climate and it is important to keep opposing voices out.” Totally contrary to their stance when they were playing up ‘Climagate’ : “The release of these documents creates an opportunity for reporters, academics, politicians, and others who relied on the IPCC to form their opinions about global warming to stop and reconsider their position. The experts they trusted and quoted in the past have been caught red-handed plotting to conceal data, hide temperature trends that contradict their predictions, and keep critics from appearing in peer-reviewed journals. This is new and real evidence that they should examine and then comment on publicly.” This outfit has been one of those that has played up the ‘Climagate’ a lot, producing accusations of fraud over normal scientific debate – all of which were proven wrong in courts, scientists acquitted. It is much enlightening to see how such a private-interest think thank operates internally – especially their straightforward intentions of trying to prevent teaching of science, or their opposition out of press. ]]>
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