By James Taylor
According to the formal charges presented last week, standing up for climate realism also makes me a “fraud” guilty of “crimes against future generations.”
The Climate Accountability Research Project asserts:
“As the President of the Heartland Institute, James M. Taylor is responsible for the alleged crimes of fraud and crimes against future generations and the Earth. Under his leadership, the Heartland Institute continues to be the premiere climate denial organization in the United States spending millions of dollars and advertising campaigns and anti-climate science ‘education’ to maintain the status quo of fossil fuel usage in America. The Heartland Institute is funded heavily by organizations associated with the fossil fuel industry and continues to promote well disproven lies as a distraction and deterrence from climate forward legislation.”
I am proud that my accusers recognize The Heartland Institute as “the premiere climate denial organization in the United States” – even if they present a rather creative definition of “denial.”
Everything else they assert is false and dangerous.
Heartland presently does not receive any funding from the fossil fuel industry, although I wish we did. We are a tiny organization compared to the leftist climate activist groups. The top eight climate activist groups receive approximately $2 billion in annual funding, which is approximately 500 times as much funding as Heartland receives.
Even with a massive 500-to-1 advantage in funding and a near monopoly on media coverage, climate activists cannot beat The Heartland Institute in the court of public opinion.
We destroy them in the discerning minds of the public and they can’t stand it. Therefore, they now resort to intimidation, seeking to arrest and prosecute me in an international kangaroo court.
Just 10 years ago, I would have entirely laughed this off. Now, however, we have witnessed with our own eyes how fighting back against the left makes one a target for criminal prosecution. The International Criminal Court itself has been hijacked by the international left, with the odds stacked against any climate realist like myself brought to trial.
Steven, I will continue to fight for what is right.
I will never be intimidated into abandoning climate realism and opposing the global leftist agenda. If it leads to imprisonment, the gallows, or anything else, so be it.
“The only thing I’m guilty of is promoting climate truth!”
Heartland is the world’s most effective entity fighting the climate alarmist movement. That is why the Climate Accountability Research Project is going after The Heartland Institute and me personally. If they must pursue their nefarious attempt to persecute their enemies, I am proud that The Heartland Institute and I are at the top of their “most wanted” list.
As always, you can count on Heartland to remain a constant thorn in the side of the climate alarmism leviathan.