Andrew Revkin of New York Times' Dot Earth blog censured the following comment -- gee, was it the mention of ExxonMobil?

Andy Revkin censured this comment -- it was not posted in spite of the fact that it was also sent to him by private e-mail:

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/climate-auditor-challenged-to-do-climate-science/?sort=oldest&offset=14

327 comments, but this one couldn't be published, do we need to wonder why?


Andy,

Why don't you post on what is really going on?

Why don't you post on how the fossil-fuel industry, especially ExxonMobil, gleefully uses McIntyre's anti-science to support their manipulation of the public opinion while distorting and lying about all real science?

Wendell Cox
Senior Fellow
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Maureen Martin
Senior Fellow for Legal Affairs
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Merrill Matthews Jr.
Senior Fellow
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Tom Roeser
Former Senior Fellow
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Roy E. Marden
Director
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Thomas Walton
Director
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Allen Fore
Vice President - Public Affairs
Source: Heartland Institute website 2004

Sean Parnell
Vice President - External Affairs
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Eugene Volokh
Policy Advisor
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Ronald D. Rotunda
Policy Advisor
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Sam Peltzman
Policy Advisor
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Robin A. Anderson
Policy Advisor
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

Roy W. Spencer
Contributing Writer
Source: Heartland Institute website 4/04

David H. Douglass
Contributing writer
Source: Heartland website 10/01/04

Sallie Baliunas
Writer
Source: Heartland Institute Website (2006)

Willie Soon
Writer
Source: Heartland Institute Website (2006)

Tim Ball, PhD
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Robert C. Balling Jr.
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Robert L. Bradley Jr.
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Randall Cerveny
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

John Christy
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Ian Clark
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Robert E. Davis
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Chris DeFreitas
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Myron Ebell
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Christopher Essex
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Indur M. Goklany
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Vincent Gray
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Kenneth Green
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

David R. Legates
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Marlo Lewis Jr.
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Henry R. Linden
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Richard Lindzen
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Bjorn Lomborg
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Ross McKitrick
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Patrick J. Michaels
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Iain Murray
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Tim Patterson, PhD
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Benny Peiser
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

S. Fred Singer
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

George H. Taylor
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

William M. Gray
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org Expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

William Kininmonth
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source: Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org

Robert J. Buford
Member, Board of Directors
Source: Heartland Institute Expert bio - Robert Buford

Bryan Leyland
Heartland paid (in part) for Leyland to attend UN Bali conference 2007
Source: The LIstener, New Zealand

owen mcshane
Speaker, Heartland New York Conference on Climate Change, March 2008. Paid to come to conference.
Source: Heartland New York Conference March 2008

Vincent Gray
Speaker, international conference on climate change, New York 2-4 March 2008
Source: Heartland New York Conference March 2008

Bob Carter
Speaker, Heartland conference, 2008. Paid by Heartland to attend event.
Source: Real Climate blog

END OF COMMENT

Data from:  http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41

Heartland Institute has received $676,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

1997
$unknown Mobil Corporation
Source: Heartland material, present at 3/16/97 conference

1998
$30,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: Exxon Education Foundation Dimensions 1998 report

2000
$115,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Climate Change
Source: ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990

2001
$90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2001 Worldwide Giving Report

2002
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2002 Worldwide Giving Report

2003
$7,500 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
19th Aniversary Benefit Dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report

2003
$85,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report

2004
$10,000 Exxon Corporation
Climate Change Activities
Source: ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report

2004
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Climate Change Efforts
Source: ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report

2004
$75,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report

2005
$29,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report

2005
$90,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report

2006
$90,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
General Operating Support
Source: ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report

2006
$10,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Anniversary benefit dinner
Source: ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report

2006
$15,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
general operating support
Source: ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report

psssssst! Readers! This is just the stuff publicly available in the annual report -- we can only imagine what else these obfuscators have been given.