Recently I talked about my experience sitting through a meeting sponsored by the TEA Party at which climate denier, Fred Singer continued his rant against global warming.  Now a trove of documents from the Heartland Institute reveal some details about Singer's support from industrial sources, laundered through the Heartland Institute.  Turns out he gets $60,000 a year plus expenses to continue the attack against climate change.

Source of Heartland Institute's funding?  Companies wanting to avoid regulations, rich industrial family foundations, and conservative individuals.  The Heartland Institute was involved in denying the dangers of secondhand cigarette smoke in the 1990's and is now denying the dangers from climate change.

Years ago, when I worked on the House Science Committee, my colleagues did a study and report on the efforts to undercut environmental science and some details on the climate denial community and some of their funding sources.  Not to surprisingly, fossil fuel interests figured heavily in the mix - with funding laundered through intermediaries like the Marshall Institute.