By Robert Bradley Jr.

“For the Heartland Institute and its supporters, DeSmog’s reporting serves as a ringing endorsement of their effectiveness. Even in the UK, the exaggerated arguments for the green scam are being revealed.”

MasterResource has posted on the success of the Chicago-based Heartland Institute in the UK/EU fight for energy/climate realism and social justice. DeSmog just provided an update that should be very encouraging to Heartland and its supporters.

In “Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event” (June 18, 2025), authors Adam Barnett and Sam Bright report:

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is set to speak at an event today organised by a pro-Trump think tank and held in the home of the UK’s main climate science denial group.

Farage, whose party campaigns to scrap the UK’s goal of achieving net zero emissions, is the star speaker at the event, described as a “ground-breaking conversation about climate policy….”

Authors Adam Barnett and Sam Bright continued in their report, self-described as a ‘reveal’.

The event has been convened by the UK-EU branch of the Heartland Institute, a U.S. group that has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change. It is being hosted in 55 Tufton Street, the home of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which claims – like Farage – that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

True, CO2 is not a pollutant. Not so true on anthropogenic climate change, which skeptics of climate alarm note has beneficial features.

Lois Perry, Heartland’s head on the UK/EU side, shot back against critics, as quoted in the DeSmog piece:

The fact that Professor Prins is associated with the GWPF, and that our event is held at 55 Tufton Street, should be seen as a badge of honour – it signifies a hub of independent thought brave enough to challenge a catastrophic group think…. Heartland is proud to be supported by private citizens who believe in intellectual freedom. [Net Zero] is proving economically ruinous for ordinary British families, damaging to our industrial base, and a direct threat to our national energy security.

Bravo!

The authors try to minimize the effect of Heartland’s push. But in another DeSmog article, How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules, author Sam Bright admits to the opposite.

European leaders are bending to the demands of U.S. climate science deniers. “The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,” the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March.

Bright describes the foe as follows:

The Heartland Institute is one of the world’s leading climate science denial groups. … Over recent months – along with a host of other Trump allies – the Heartland Institute has set its sights on a new target: the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The Heartland Institute and its anti-climate, anti-regulation peers are vocal opponents of the law – and launched an aggressive campaign to water it down, or even to see it scrapped entirely.

For the Heartland Institute and its supporters, DeSmog’s reporting serves as a ringing endorsement of their effectiveness. Even in the UK, the exaggerated arguments for the green scam are being revealed. I can conclude this article with the opening paragraph of my earlier post on their international initiative:

Great news! As reported by DeSmog, James Taylor and the Heartland Institute are off to a resounding start with their new offices in the UK/EU. What a return on investment for donors–and reason to attract more philanthropy to help consumers, taxpayers, and a greener environment.