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Gore Says 'Democracy Has Been Hacked' at SXSW - ABC News

Gore sat for a conversation with Napster co-founder and Web entrepreneur Sean Parker on Monday at the South By Southwest Conference and Festival. The two engaged in a ranging, hour-long talk about the intersection of the Internet and government.

Gore urged the audience of thousands in attendance and those watching the live-streamed discussion to begin a new "Occupy Democracy" movement.

Feds discreet about foreign funding of climate skeptics

Mitch Taylor, a professor from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., who specializes in polar bear research, also confirmed that he had been paid to do independent review work for the Heartland Institute, but has now stopped because of a busy workload teaching classes. He said there was nothing wrong with the funding.

"I'm not getting paid to produce anything by anybody," said Taylor.

He explained that he has been shut out of important technical meetings regarding the official status of polar bears because other scientists disagree with his research suggesting they are exaggerating claims about the species being at risk from climate change.

"I'm getting paid to be able to function as a normal scientist because there is no funding of this perspective through any of the normal channels," Taylor said. "I can't even go to the meetings."

He said he believed that the Heartland Institute had paid him a monthly fee of about $750, and that he remained in contact with the think-tank and would work with it again.

"I've been working on polar bears since 1978 . . . and my voice is being basically, just disallowed. I no longer have access to the ordinary communication routes that are available."