Ed. Note: The previous successes of the Heartland Institute in the EU/UK have been chronicled here and here. This post provides the latest DeSmog “expose” of Heartland’s successes, which is a fundraising/donation coup for James Taylor, as he explains below.
DeSmog’s investigative hit pieces are backfiring, which should concern financial supporters of this Left Progressive group. The latest example was amplified by James Taylor, head of the Heartland Institute and architect of its climate-related programs in the U.S. and abroad.
“Last week,” his recent fundraising letter went, “one of our loudest critics accidentally told the truth.” Taylor continued:
…An activist website called Desmog published an article attempting to attack The Heartland Institute. Instead, it exposed just how far our influence now reaches. The article maps Heartland’s growing network across the UK and Europe.
Ed Note: This (re)post from two-and-a-half years ago is reproduced below (verbatim) given its continuing relevance to the climate debate today.
A recent piece in Climatewire by Scott Walderman, “‘Doomerism’: Why scientists disagree with Biden on 1.5 C,” begins:
Damned. Lost. Done. President Joe Biden keeps saying the world as we know it will be gone if global temperatures rise beyond 1.5 degrees.
Which led Michael Mann (a leading climate scientist/activist) to complain that Biden’s pitch was “misleading and unhelpful.” Mann continued:
It indeed feeds doomerism since there’s a very real possibility that we will fail to limit warming below 1.5 C. If we miss that exit ramp, we don’t continue headlong down the fossil fuel highway. We get off at the earliest possible exit.
“Doomerism” Everywhere?…
This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Unreliables (General):
*** NY State’s energy policies absurd, costly (this applies to many other states)
Empire Center Warns of Sharp Increase in New York Electricity Prices
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated
*** Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of its Energy
Dominion loses early court battle on CVOW
A speculation on military risk with offshore wind — AI submarines
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Why Fossil Fuels Remain Essential to America’s Economic Engine in 2026
Trump’s first year back in office sees major oil and gas permit surge
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** The Dirty Truth About Lithium Ion Batteries
Cyclotech’s Revolutionary Blackbird eVTOL
Misellaneousc Energy News:
*** Energy wisdom is lacking among public officials
*** Activist Groups Sabotaging American Energy Oppose America Itself
*** Attacking global electricity poverty
*** What is Technology
A Tribute to Robert Bryce: More Than Three Decades of Energy Humanism
Supreme Court Weighs Big Case Involving Major American Energy Companies
The essential guide to Micron’s chip project in Upstate NY: the largest private development project in NYS history
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and the California Energy Disaster
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** UN to Censor All Criticism of the Climate Agenda as Whistleblower Exposes it as a Total Scam
*** New Yorkers Organize Big-Time to Fight Back Against Empire State Climate Insanity and for Safe and Reliable Energy
*** President Trump And The Doomsday Glacier
*** Twenty Years Later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Has Been Thoroughly Debunked
3 Cheers For CO₂!…