Kert Davies: Achy Breaky Heartland Institute: May Chicago Meeting Brief

Before the billboard debacle, they called a meeting -- to challenge the prevailing consensus science on global warming (again) -- gathering their peers from the climate denial front groups... which looked to us a lot like a circling of wagons....The crowd assembled in Chicago this week at the 7th (not annual, but randomly occurring) Heartland Denial-Palooza meeting is a who's who of individuals and organizations that have actively conspired to derail global warming policy and science for the last two decades. Ever since the world woke up to the climate crisis, this mob has been working to delay action by distracting the public and policy arena with misinformation....This Heartland Chicago meeting might be interesting. The last one was a dud, I hear. Oh, to be a fly on the wall as the participants line up to rail on Joe Bast for dragging them into his cesspool.