our guys have time for tonight tool time award and tonight the award goes to the heartland institute for putting out a really offensive and ridiculous ad attacking the theory as they like to call it of climate change now you've probably heard of this think tank before the heartland institute at the deep pocketed conservative organization that counts the koch brothers philip morris and microsoft among its well heeled donors and it's a good reputation for consistently trying to undermine scientific research that threatens the profits of its gargantuan corporate benefactors the in the ninety's heartland help the tobacco industry attack research the show that secondhand smoke is harmful and today it is at the forefront of the effort to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change an effort that might be having an effect on the american education system to take a look at this teachers say they're facing skepticism about climate science eighty two percent of science teachers say they faced it from students and fifty four percent say they faced it from parents ninety seven to ninety

for less than 24 hours, the heartland institute which is another koch bothered-backed institute, anothering heartland institute ran these billboards in chicago. take a look. yep, that's right. billboards linking all people who believe that climate is changing to ted kaczynski, the unabomber, and to osama bin laden in other billboards, and charles manson. the 97% of advertises are just like mass murderers, and terrorists! of course, it's a obvious! the koch brothers and their energy companies do not want you to believe in climate change. so they try to use shocking ridiculous billboards as a strategy. the heartland jumps the shark, meaning the ad was just too much even by heartland's low standards, and today just hours ago, heartland pulled the billboards. they took them down because of the outrage that those billboards causes among people like you but there's more outrageous behavior being funded every single day but heartland and alec and american legislative exchange council. in states lawmakers are regoing to repeal standards that have created jobs and helped our environment as well. tha

the memo that you published that they were talking about let's reach out to people like the heartland institute in competitive enterprise institute in remember the whole list right it was the it was all the usual suspects yeah it's this echo chamber of fossil fuel funded advocacy groups and what's interesting is most of them claim to be free market think tanks or intellectually honest and. they ignore the subsidies for fossil fuel industry and instead they focus their tax on clean energy so despite the fact that fossil fuel companies receive one hundred or two hundred times more subsidies they focus their attacks on clean energy and it's no surprise when you look at their funding sources yeah i had a conservative my radio show today the first thing she went off on was cylinder and on the way that we're funding exxon mobil what are in the organization well these are these local answer when organizations and b. is an acronym for not my back right now in my backyard and these documents are the first time that i've seen evidence that these national fossil fuel funded groups are working with local c

a libertarian think tank called the heartland institute. this is a think tank 1600 supporters. >> bill: they had to take this down. >> they had to take it down. people were very offended by it. what heartland is saying what the murderer hes and mad men have said they showed people like ted can a cincy can a -- bin laden. mainstream media and liberals say about global warming. if you believe in global warming you are -- >> bill: i don't think we should be linking violent people with any political deal. >> they got attention. >> bill: now it's gone. juliet huddy, everybody. thank you. pinheads and patriots starring johnny depp, president bush. quite a lineup. p and p just over two minutes away. >> bill: pin heads and patriots with johnny depp in a moment. patriot moms and pens sold out. great t-shirts repain. these are very nice. if you buy a copy of killing lincoln you get a free copy of eyes of justice. now, for the mail. trying to make sure justice is done, chris, simple as that. ron no news station, none would have touched the norfolk stor

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a libertarian think tank called the heartland institute. 0 supporters. >> bill: they had to take this down. >> they had to take it down. people were very offended by it. what heartland is saying what the murderer hes and mad men have said they showed people like ted can a cincy can a -- bin laden. mainstream media and liberals say about global warming. if you believe in global warming you are -- >> bill: i don't think we should be linking violent people with any political deal. >> they got attention. >> bill: now it's gone. juliet huddy, everybody. thank you. pinheads and patriots starring johnny depp, president bush. quite a lineup. p and p just over two minutes away. does your phone give you all day battery life ? droid does. and does it launch apps by voice while learning your voice ? launch cab4me. droid does. keep left at the fork. does it do turn-by-turn navigation ? droid does. with verizon, america's largest 4glte network and motorola, whatever you want to do... droidoes. >> bill: pin heads and patriots with johnny depp in a moment.

. >> sreenivasan: a well-known conservative think tank, the heartland institute, does not trust the science behind the upcoming standards. they will try to influence teachers directly. the institute has announced they will create their own k-12 climate science curriculum, including a reflection of the institute's view that global warming has been a net positive. james taylor is a senior fellow at heartland. >> we've seen that soil moisture globally has improved. we've seen that droughts have become less frequent and less severe. we've seen expansion of forests. we've seen crop production reached record levels. we've seen tornadoes and hurricanes to the extent that we can ascribe trends. we've seen that they've become less frequent d le severe. across the board we've seen the warmer climate, warmer temperatures have always benefited humans, and continued to do so. >> sreenivasan: views challenged by scientific evidence. in cheryl manning's classroom, she is trying to get her students to tackle both the validity of the science behind climate change, and what society can do about it. >> i want

translation it's a clearinghouse for right-wing think tanks like the heartland institute, the heritageoundation. all of these organizations promote things like voter disenfranchisement, union busting, and they get funding from the infamous koch brothers. does it all sound familiar? it should. because the groups are also behind alec the american legislative exchange council. here to shed light on these shadowy groups and how they are subverting democracy is a friend of "the war room." rashad robinson. he is the executive director of color of change. welcome to san francisco and inside "the war room." >> it's greet to be here. >> talk about what color of change is doing to shed light on some of these shadowy right-wing think tanks. >> we have had a lot of success with our campaign. and now with our partners at common cause, and the center for median democracy, there is a lot of work being done to shed line on these think tanks, and the role that alec plays in taking legislation crafted by these think tanks in partnership with alec and moving it in state houses around the country. they ar

or take over or subsidize organizations that then put out the message and they sound legit, heartland institute, annapolis council. but the american people are not fooled, it turns out. 71% of visitors who come to the nation's wildlife refuges say that they are personally concerned about climate change's effects on fish, wildlife, and habitats. 74% said that working to limit climate change's effects on fish, wildlife, and habitats would benefit future generations and 69% said doing so would improve the quality of life today. one of the original researchers on climate change -- i quoted an article earlier describing how over time the facts have proven his initial predictions accurate -- is james hansen. he wrote an article just a few weeks ago in the "new york times" headlined "game over for the climate." it begins with these two sentences: "global warming is a prediction. it is happening." and clearly we see that in measurements and observations around the planet but what happens if it keeps goingnes gos he's talking about the tar sand up in canada, and he says this: "if we were to fully exploi