Heartland Institute Seeks to Develop Climate Skeptic Curricula

A firestorm erupted recently when documents were leaked showing that the Heartland Institute, a prominent conservative think tank, is seeking to support development of K-12 curricula designed to promote teach skepticism about global warming. More information about this can be found at the following websites:

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/heartland-institute-leaked-documents_n_1282824.html
• http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-insider-exposes-institute-s-budget-and-strategy
• http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/14/425354/internal-documents-climate-denier-heartland-institute-plans-global-warming-curriculum-for-k-12-schools/

The Heartland Institute has posted a press release about this story at http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/02/15/heartland-institute-responds-stolen-and-fake-documents, claiming that "Some of these documents were stolen from Heartland, at least one is a fake, and some may have been altered."