Quadrant Online - Heartland in Sydney: Part 1

The 5th International Climate Conference, sponsored by the Heartland Institute of Chicago, was the first to travel outside the USA. It was held in Sydney on 1 October, and provided a depth of interest and scholarship which delighted the hundred-plus attendees.

USA Today Global Warming Propaganda Shows Why the Lamestream Media is Dying - by James M. Taylor

The dinosaur mainstream media (aka “lamestream” media) is dying, which is sending static statists and liberal propagandists into a panic, demanding government bailouts and subsidies for these failed institutions. But while the lamestream media is dying, alternative news sources are thriving. Rather than lobby the government to take dollars away from already overtaxed citizens and give them to failed media corporations, perhaps the lamestream media should undergo some self-assessment as to why the public has turned away from their brand of “news.”

Parroting the claims of a new “study” released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, an alarmist propaganda group whose claims counter those of some of Yale’s own scholars, this morning’s USA Today article, “Survey: Public knowledge on climate lacking,” is seven parts alarmist propaganda, three parts condescension, and zero parts sound, objective science reporting.