Berkowitz at Media Trans-Global Warmiing deniers meet, greet, eat & whine 
 
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:07:58 -0600 (CST)


Global warming 'skeptics' conference enabled by conservative  philanthropy

Heartland Institute and dozens of other sponsors of  conference funded by 
Coors, Bradley, Walton, Scaife and DeVos  foundations

Bill Berkowitz
March 5,  2008

http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=230

"Ignored,  and often even censored and demonized" is how the promotional 
materials for the  Heartland Institute's recent conference "The 2008 International 
Conference on  Climate Change," described the way "distinguished scholars 
from the U.S. and  around the world," that have had the courage to question 
global warming, have  been treated by environmentalists and the mainstream media. 
In a "Background"  piece, conference organizers claimed that "They [the 
scholars] have been labeled  'skeptics' and even 'global warming deniers,' a 
mean-spirited attempt to lump  them together with Holocaust deniers.

Always on the lookout to defend the  oppressed, both Glenn Beck, the right 
wing host of a CNN Headline News show, and  the Fox News Channel rode in to 
rescue the "demonized" and beleaguered. On  Monday morning, March 3, "Fox and 
Friends" homed in on the problem that the  "skeptics" are facing. Fox's point: 
Goreistas, or advocates of devoting major  resources to dealing with global 
warming, receive a disproportionate share of  network and cable television face 
time, while those raising questions about  global warming are shut out of the 
debate.

However, according to Think  Progress, the conference was not ignored by the 
mainstream, media. "....The New  York Times has published two separate 
articles on the conference, and the Times'  John Tierney has written about it on his 
blog. Other mainstream press outlets  that have covered the conference: the 
Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal,  the New York Daily News, the New York 
Sun, and  Reuters."

http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=230

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