Heartland-gate

Breaking news in the climate denial front. The 'Think Tank', The Heartland Institute who has always been very secretive about both it's funding and who it in turns funds has had an Insider release the Heartland Institutes budget, and fund-raising plan. Already some quite interesting revelations are coming to light across this interweb thingy;

• Denialgate - Internal Heartland Documents Expose Climate Denial Funding Network

Links to the released documents are available there "so that others can also scrutinize the documents and bring their expertise to the task".

Should be interesting and may be a blow for the Denial Machine.

 UPDATE 

Reviews of the documents in this leak are coming in thick and fast and some from very credible sources like Scientific American:

• Leaked: Conservative Group Plans Anti-Climate Education Program: The Heartland Institute funds climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso, physicist Fred Singer and geologist Robert Carter.
• Some notes on the Heartland Leak
• Documents reveal Koch-funded group's plot to undermine climate science: Documents leaked from the 'free-market' Heartland Institute reveal payments to prominent climate-change deniers, a plan to create a fossil-fuel-friendly curriculum for Kindergartners, and efforts to 'keep opposing voices' out of the media.
• Heartland Documents Reveal Fringe Denial Group Plans to Pursue Koch Money, Dupe Children and Ruin Their Future
• INTERNAL DOCUMENTS: The Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan To Teach Children That Climate Change Is A Hoax  
• Climate Warming Denial: Big Business
•  Explainer: What is the Heartland Institute? Leaked documents from the Heartland Institute, which seeks to promote global warming skepticism, show an array of unlikely donors. 
• Heartland's leaked documents show how climate skepticism spreads: Leaked internal documents from The Heartland Institute show how one organization is working to promote global warming denial.
•  Leaked Heartland Institute documents pull back curtain on climate scepticism: Leaked internal documents from US thinktank expose funding and policy strategies against climate science 
• Heartland Institute Responds to Stolen and Fake Documents 
• Leaked files expose Heartland Institute's secrets