"Free Marketeers" are for the One Percent what Mouseketeers were for the Mickey Mouse Club TV show--their anti-global warming chorus and cast. Despite their baloney science and adverse media exposés, they are loved by corporations, especially the fossil fuel industry, which showers them with funding. The success of this effort is evident everywhere in the US: the public remains largely ignorant and/or passive about global warming.
... there is Heartland’s promise that future warming will be modest and warmer will be better. ....According to Heartland, climate “alarmism” is just the entering wedge for socialism.
The surreal thing about being at Heartland’s Seventh International Conference on Climate Change was knowing that Heartland has been exposed as an extremist organization, and might be doomed—yet it’s winning. In the United States, at least, Heartland’s free-market fetish has trumped the science.
We’ve heard the warnings of impending catastrophe and have decided, basically, to do nothing. We’ve chosen to believe Heartland’s comforting “research and reason” rather than hard truths.