Come on, why let mere facts ruin your day?

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I think we’ll just keep repeating the question until we get an answer:

Where’s the science? Where’s the science? Where’s theย science?

The latest think tank effort is a video by the oil-industry-friendly Heartland Institute, who is just begging for attention as the Al Gore attackย dog.

The video outlines some of the more popular denier themes (and deniers) around Gore’s Inconvenient Truth – like somehow discrediting Gore is a way of discrediting the body of literature around human-made climateย change.

The tag-line at the end of the video is the best part: โ€œDon’t let fear ruin your day, learn theย facts.โ€

And according to the Heartland Institute, the โ€œfactsโ€ around climate change are not to be found in the scientific literature. Instead, we can learn โ€œfactsโ€ about climate change from the self-professed โ€œexpertiseโ€ as aired on CNN‘s Glenn Beck Show and Martin Durkin’s discredited โ€œGreat Global Warming Swindleโ€ย documentary.

If the Heartland Institute is so convinced of a global warming hoax, why are they not sponsoring the likes of Dr. Tim Ball to develop an hypothesis that challenges the consensus view on climate change and conduct research? Such a thing would no doubt put them on the map much more than harping on about Alย Gore.

Here’s theย video:

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Kevin is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmog. He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House. Named a โ€œGreen Heroโ€ by Rolling Stone Magazine and one of the โ€œTop 50 Tweetersโ€ on climate change and environment issues, Kevin has appeared in major news media outlets around the world for his work on digital campaigning. Kevin has been involved in the public policy arena in both the United States and Canada for more than a decade. For five years he was the managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com. In this role, Kevinโ€™s research into the โ€œclimate denial industryโ€ and the right-wing think tank networks was featured in news media articles around the world. He is most well known for his ground-breaking research into David and Charles Kochโ€™s massive financial investments in the Republican and tea partyย networks. Kevin is the first person to be designated a โ€œCertified Expertโ€ on theย political and community organizing platformย NationBuilder. Prior to DeSmog, Kevin worked in various political and government roles. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism and a Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Asia Pacific, Foreign Affairs for the Government of Canada. Kevin also worked in various roles in the British Columbia provincial government in the Office of the Premier and the Ministry of Health. In 2008 Kevin co-founded a groundbreaking new online election tool called Vote for Environment which was later nominated for a World Summit Award in recognition of the worldโ€™s best e-Content and innovative ICTย applications. Kevin moved to Washington, DC in 2010 where he worked for two years as the Director of Online Strategy for Greenpeace USA and has since returned to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

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