The sixth annual international conference of climate change deniers, brought to you by the Koch Brothers, commonly referred to as the Heartland Institute convened Thursday at the Washington Marriot Wardman Park Hotel. There were featured presentations from the likes of Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, which is a so called ‘green movement’ think tank, but in reality it is a Koch brothers front to instigate and spread climate change denial. He of course, argues that humans have a limited to no impact at all on climate change. Michaels stated in his pressentation that public figures are overestimating the extent to which climate change can be attributed to human beings, which in turn is leading to costly, ineffective polices that will not help reverse the warming trend. Michaels, a self-described “luke-warmer,” had his research called into question earlier this year, when Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce committee, asked fellow Republicans to investigate how much of his research funding was coming from the oil industry.

Another of the prominent climate change deniers, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), who insists we are in a ‘cooling period’, was set to kick off the event on Thursday, but had to cancel due to a cold. Back on April 21st, 2011, Inhofe told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade’s that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking has “never poisoned anyone” nor even contaminated groundwater. He also claimed that there was nothing to worry about with fracking. Inhofe’s biggest contributors to his political career are, of course, and I’m sure you guessed it, the oil and gas industry. During the last election cycle in 2010, oil and gas industry companies gave him over $450K alone, even though he wasn’t even up for re-election. Continue Reading Koch Brothers, Err Heartland Inst. 6th Annual Conf. for Climate Change Deniers Here