The skeptics are coming to town! As the NY Times reports today, 600 climate-change deniers are currently holed up in a hotel in New York City for the International Conference on Climate Change. The conference’s organizers? None other than the conservative Chicago-based think tank The Heartland Institute, of Exxon-Mobil funding fame (as Mother Jones reported in 2005.)
Heartland Institute president Joseph L. Bast has posted his opening remarks on the institute’s website. The basic message? We ARE NOT a fringe movement:
These scientists and economists have been published thousands of
times in the world’s leading scientific journals and have written
hundreds of books. If you call this the fringe, where’s the center?
Hey Jim Martin, does this look like a phone booth to you?
Hey RealClimate, can you hear us now?
The skeptic doth protest too much, methinks.
