The Heartland Institute mission statement:
Heartland's mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.
On September 14th of 2007 Heartland Institute director Dennis Avery released a list of 500 climate scientists who supposedly question the theory that humans contribute to global warming.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=21978
However, environmental blog DeSmogBlog recently began contacted these scientists and immediately received messages back indicating that the list was largely fraudulent.
http://www.desmogblog.com/500-scientists-with-docu...
DeSmogBlog manager Kevin Grandia emailed 122 of the scientists yesterday afternoon, calling their attention to the list. So far - in less than 24 hours - three dozen of those scientists had responded in outrage, denying that their research supports Avery's conclusions and demanding that their names be removed.