Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents

Layzej writes "Bloggers around the world have been commenting on recently leaked Heartland Institute documents that reveal their internal strategies to discredit climate science. These posters are now under threat of legal action. According to the Heartland Institute 'the individuals who have commented so far on these documents did not wait for Heartland to confirm or deny the authenticity of the documents. We believe their actions constitute civil and possibly criminal offenses for which we plan to pursue charges and collect payment for damages'"

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Re:what does waiting have to do with anything?

[demonlapin]

Well, I suppose that is one way of looking at it. Another would be that there was a global cooling scare in the early 1970s, for which the solution was also to shut down industrial development, and then there was the abortion that was Kyoto, which would wreck the world's economies in return for delaying the rise in global temperature by something like five years (in the best case scenario!). The fact that the science has become certain rather than merely strongly suggestive in the intervening two decades does nothing to improve the policy suggestions, and the fact that we were much more certain of this from the get-go than we were of cooling in the 70s makes no difference to the average man in the street, who sees people proposing higher taxes on his gas to give grants to politically connected businesses.