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The source for Jordan Peterson’s claim on the Joe Rogan podcast that 'climate change cannot be modelled' was Fred Singer, a climate science denier who received money from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank funded by oil companies.

desmog.com/2022/01/28/jor…
In 2014 @DeSmog revealed Fred Singer received $5,000/month from US right-wing think tank the Heartland Institute, funded in part by ExxonMobil & Koch.

Singer spoke at a 2012 Heartland conference where sponsors received $67MILLION from Exxon, Koch & the Scaife Family Foundations. Image
Fred Singer was known for rejecting the overwhelming scientific consensus on many issues, including climate change, the connection between UV-B exposure & melanoma rates, stratospheric ozone loss being caused by chlorofluoro compounds, & even the health risks of passive smoking.
The Heartland Institute is a US conservative right-libertarian think tank known for its rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change & the negative health impacts of smoking - & has many parallels with - & influences - the current UK Government. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Founded in 1984, Heartland worked with tobacco company Philip Morris to discredit the health risks of secondhand smoke & lobby against smoking bans.

Priti Patel did this when she was employed by Shandwick on the British American Tobacco account.

Since the 2000s, the Heartland Institute has been a leading promoter of climate change denial, writing model legislation to repeal mandates on renewable energy, such as solar & wind power, & presented the model legislation to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Image
Like the rest of the global network of dangerously irresponsible antidemocratic free-market fundamentalist libertarian think tanks, they advocate low tax, privatization, private schools, fracking, & free-market reforms in healthcare.

They refuse to disclose its funding sources.
Remember dangerous lockdown-sceptic Karol Sikora who told us in May 2020 everything would be virtually 'back to normal' by August 2020 & who was platformed by @BBCNewsnight to describe the #NHS as "the last bastion of communism"? Heartland Institute♥️him!
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Like with smoking & climate change, the evidence of the harmful of effects of pollution is undeniable, but powerful interests continue to reject & lobby against regulation, & cast doubt over this science. Once again, the heartland Institute was involved.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
So anyway, why is Jordan Peterson SO critical of the scientific consensus on climate change? Why does he LOVE the disruptive 'freedom truckers' & HATE disruptive environmental protests - and anything else even vaguely 'progressive'?

There are a wide range of answers to this...
'Peterson loved the rhetorical patterns of #demagogues. He loved that when they said something & got roars of approval, they repeated it more loudly, & then honed in on the subset of things that got them the biggest roars' - Peterson's former UofT mentor.

quora.com/Why-does-Jorda…

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