As the globe warms: Chicago editor goes back to warming-denial group

Readers of this blog may recall back in November when we posted an item about Chicago Sun-Times business editor Dan Miller sending out a letter to 200 journalists around the country urging them to "keep an open mind" about global warming.

Included with the letter -- written on Miller's letterhead -- was a double-DVD of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a largely discredited BBC documentary called The Great Global Warming Swindle. That DVD, and the mailing of Miller's letter, were the handiwork of The Heartland Institute.

Not mentioned in the letter was the fact that Miller used to work for the Chicago-based libertarian think tank, and that its own website doesn't exactly keep an open mind. Instead The Heartland Institute asserts there is no scientific consensus on global warming and features a list of experts and like-minded think tanks, many of whom have received funding from ExxonMobil and other polluters.

Now comes the next act of the soap opera. The Heartland Institute announced Monday that  Miller had been hired as Heartland's  executive vice president, where he  "will oversee Heartland's research and education programs and present Heartland's ideas to several key audiences, including academics, civic and business leaders, educators, and media."

To read our previous post on  this subject, click here. To read Heartland's own website challenging the scientific consensus on global warming, click here. To read Heartland's attack on journalists who questioned Miller's ethics in sending out the Heartland mailing using his employer's letterhead, click here.

--Craig Pittman 

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*yawn*

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