Another Something-gate
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17048991
This time it's about internal documents and the funding of the Heartland Institute, one of the large anti-AGW think tanks. Emphasis added.This man - the gender is specified - gave just under $1m last year, a little less than a quarter of the institute's income.
But that's small beer compared with his 2008 contribution of $4,610,000 - amounting to 58% of the organisation's entire budget for the year!
The Anonymous Donor appears to be particularly interested in global warming, paying for more than half of the NIPCC project and agreeing to stump up the first $100,000 of David Wojick's curriculum work.
As his funding has fallen in the last couple of years, the institute has accordingly spent less on climate: "We are extinguishing primarily global warming projects in pace with declines in his giving", one of the documents notes.
This appears to add a new ingredient to the debate over what to call organisations like the Heartland Institute. Neither think-tank nor lobby group appears to work when the organisation is changing its output on the basis of what its funders want it to do: perhaps "public relations" would work best?
This time it's about internal documents and the funding of the Heartland Institute, one of the large anti-AGW think tanks. Emphasis added.This man - the gender is specified - gave just under $1m last year, a little less than a quarter of the institute's income.
But that's small beer compared with his 2008 contribution of $4,610,000 - amounting to 58% of the organisation's entire budget for the year!
The Anonymous Donor appears to be particularly interested in global warming, paying for more than half of the NIPCC project and agreeing to stump up the first $100,000 of David Wojick's curriculum work.
As his funding has fallen in the last couple of years, the institute has accordingly spent less on climate: "We are extinguishing primarily global warming projects in pace with declines in his giving", one of the documents notes.
This appears to add a new ingredient to the debate over what to call organisations like the Heartland Institute. Neither think-tank nor lobby group appears to work when the organisation is changing its output on the basis of what its funders want it to do: perhaps "public relations" would work best?