Every year, Heartland and others spend what is surely thousands of their fossil fuel donors’ dollars to try and cause a scene at the UN climate negotiations. And pretty much every year, they fail to get any coverage for their antics, because when thousands of real diplomats are carrying out tense negotiations, no one cares what the crazies are doing.
And the one or two stories they do get tend to make fun of them. This year, the closest Heartland’s big event on their “fossil fuels are good” report got to real coverage was a tweet from AP reporter Frank Jordans and a brief mention in his story, and a DeSmogUK post.
But wait, a mention in an AP story is quite a hit! Let’s check out how the AP described Heartland’s big pro-fossil fuels event for its global audience: “About 10 people attended.”
But what about the livestream? According to DeSmog, the event “was watched by about 50 people.”
Wow, an audience of 60 for an event that undoubtedly cost organizers a few thousand in travel accommodations and other sundry expenses.
We’d say more, but we decided to only make you read as many sentences about the event as there were people who attended.
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