Washington Post column by Dana Milbank read too much
into a four-month-old op-ed
into a four-month-old op-ed
Washington Post Columnist Dana Milbank wrote in his April 6 column that The Heartland Institute was
making “a tactical retreat” away from the fight against global warming
alarmism. I wish he had called me first, I would have told him: Nothing could
be further from the truth.
In the coming months we will distribute more than a quarter-million
books and reports on climate change and host the Tenth
International Conference on Climate Change on June 11-12 in
Washington, DC. The man-made global warming paradigm is crumbling, public
support is vanishing, and except for a few last hold-outs at the Washington
Post and New York Times, the whole world knows it. Human activity is not
causing a climate crisis.
To invent his story, Milbank took out of context two passages from a
December 24, 2014 opinion piece at Human Events by Justin Haskins, an editor for The Heartland Institute.
I would have phrased it a bit differently, but I don’t disagree with the points
Haskins made.
The Heartland Institute is a think tank, not a church. We don’t all sing
from the same hymnal. I encourage debate and tolerate dissent, that’s how I learn
new things and how my staff gets better. We agree on the important stuff: that
individual liberty must expand, markets must be free, and government ought to
be limited.
Joseph Bast
President
The Heartland Institute
jbast@heartland.org
312/377-4000
President
The Heartland Institute
jbast@heartland.org
312/377-4000
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