Warmist Political Science major Alyssa Battistoni in Salon refers to "the notoriously crackpot Heartland Institute" with "its totally insane ideas"

Salon: Climate skeptics still not worried

[Alyssa Battistoni] self-styled “skeptics” offer a patchwork of arguments designed to obfuscate the issue, cautioning that we don’t really understand what’s going on, that we don’t know how much humans are really contributing, that scientists are just out for grant money, and besides, won’t somebody please think of the poor? They seek out the fringe scientists who support their opinions, and use scientific-sounding arguments to counter the scientific consensus; they’re just reasonable enough to sound legitimate to anyone who’s not well acquainted with the evidence.

So even the notoriously crackpot Heartland Institute, which recently equated global warming activists to the Unabomber, uses scientific language in support of its totally insane ideas.

Alyssa Battistoni - Campus Progress

Alyssa Battistoni writes about politics and the environment for Campus Progress. She studied Political Science at Stanford University, where she co-founded Students Taking On Poverty (STOP) and wrote for the Stanford Progressive. She spent a year as a Tom Ford Fellow at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a foundation in New York City, and another in Mumbai at SPARC, an NGO providing support to slumdwellers organizing for improved housing and infrastructure. She recently finished a master's in Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy at Oxford University, and currently lives in San Francisco, where she is an editorial intern at Mother Jones. In addition to writing for Campus Progress, Alyssa contributes writing on politics and environmental issues to other publications, including Salon and Alternet. You can follow her on Twitter at @alybatt.