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fleur-de-lisa

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Mon Dec 7, 2015, 05:58 PM Dec 2015

Climate Deniers Hold Event In Paris, Quietly Flops

A climate change denial event in Paris, organized jointly by two U.S groups, the coal-funded Heartland Institute and The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), held to coincide with the UN climate COP21 talks, quietly flopped Monday when hardly anyone turned up to listen to what actual experts consider to be Heartland's counter-factual nonsense.

Billed as the "Day of Examining the Data," the event was held at the Hotel California, across town from where the actual UN negotiations are taking place, Paris. Only about 30 people were in attendance, which is all the more embarrassing since the agenda featured roughly half this number as speakers. The turnout was only slightly better on the live stream, with only about another 100 people watching online.

Despite the abundance of available seating space, two reporters from DeSmog UK were ordered to leave the event which had been described as being "open to the public."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-surgey/climate-deniers-paris-eve_b_8739236.html

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Climate Deniers Hold Event In Paris, Quietly Flops (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 OP
Would have been a good idea to arrest them all for premeditated murder. randys1 Dec 2015 #1
Great documentary angrychair Dec 2015 #2
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