{"id":385172,"date":"2025-06-26T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=385172"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:34:01","slug":"heartland-uk-europe-more-progress-desmog-confirms-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=385172","title":{"rendered":"Heartland UK\/Europe: More Progress! (DeSmog confirms again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor the Heartland Institute and its supporters, DeSmog\u2019s reporting serves as a ringing endorsement of their effectiveness. Even in the UK, the exaggerated arguments for the green scam are being revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

MasterResource has posted<\/a> on the success of the Chicago-based Heartland Institute<\/a> in the UK\/EU fight for energy\/climate realism and social justice. DeSmog just provided an update that should be very encouraging to Heartland and its supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cNigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event<\/a>\u201d (June 18, 2025), authors Adam Barnett and Sam Bright report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reform UK<\/a> leader Nigel Farage<\/a> is set to speak at an event today organised by a pro-Trump think tank and held in the home of the UK\u2019s main climate science denial group.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Farage, whose party campaigns to scrap the UK\u2019s goal of achieving net zero emissions, is the star speaker at the event, described as a \u201cground-breaking conversation about climate policy\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Authors Adam Barnett and Sam Bright continued in their report, self-described as a \u2018reveal\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The event has been convened by the UK-EU branch of the Heartland Institute<\/a>, a U.S. group that has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change. It is being hosted in 55 Tufton Street<\/a>, the home of the Global Warming Policy Foundation<\/a>, which claims \u2013 like Farage<\/a> \u2013 that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

True<\/em>, CO2 is not a pollutant. Not so true on anthropogenic climate change, which skeptics of climate alarm note has beneficial features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lois Perry, Heartland\u2019s head on the UK\/EU side, shot back against critics, as quoted in the DeSmog piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fact that Professor Prins is associated with the GWPF, and that our event is held at 55 Tufton Street, should be seen as a badge of honour \u2013 it signifies a hub of independent thought brave enough to challenge a catastrophic group think\u2026. Heartland is proud to be supported by private citizens who believe in intellectual freedom. [Net Zero] is proving economically ruinous for ordinary British families, damaging to our industrial base, and a direct threat to our national energy security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bravo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors try to minimize the effect of Heartland\u2019s push. But in another DeSmog article, How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules<\/a>, author Sam Bright admits to the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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European leaders are bending to the demands of U.S. climate science deniers. \u201cThe CSDDD is the greatest threat to America\u2019s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,\u201d the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bright describes the foe as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Heartland Institute<\/u><\/a> is one of the world\u2019s leading climate science denial groups. \u2026 Over recent months \u2013 along with a host of other Trump allies \u2013 the Heartland Institute has set its sights on a new target: the EU\u2019s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The Heartland Institute and its anti-climate, anti-regulation peers are vocal opponents of the law \u2013 and launched an aggressive campaign to water it down, or even to see it scrapped entirely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For the Heartland Institute and its supporters, DeSmog\u2019s reporting serves as a ringing endorsement of their effectiveness. Even in the UK, the exaggerated arguments for the green scam are being revealed. I can conclude this article with the opening paragraph<\/a> of my earlier post on their international initiative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great news! As reported by DeSmog, James Taylor and the Heartland Institute are off to a resounding start with their new offices in the UK\/EU. What a return on investment for donors\u2013and reason to attract more philanthropy to help consumers, taxpayers, and a greener environment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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MasterResource has\u00a0posted\u00a0on the success of the Chicago-based\u00a0Heartland Institute\u00a0in the UK\/EU fight for energy\/climate realism and social justice. DeSmog just provided an update that should be very encouraging to Heartland and its 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