re: #152 jaunte

“We have not identified any.”

There seems to be a serious factual mistake in the alleged memo:

theatlantic.com

Koch says that their contribution was for health care, not global warming:

The documents presented by the blog indicate “[the Foundation] returned as a Heartland donor in 2011 with a contribution of $200,000. We expect to push up their level of support in 2012…if our focus continues to align with their interests.” But this is not so. The Foundation gave just $25,000 to Heartland in 2011 (the only such donation to that organization in more than 10 years) and that funding was specifically directed to a healthcare research program, and not climate change research, as was erroneously reported.

Statistically speaking, the Foundation’s contribution represents approximately one-twentieth of one percent of Heartland’s total funding over that ten year period. The Foundation has made no further commitments of funding to Heartland.

And indeed, when you look at the fundraising document, the coding next to Koch’s donation is “HCN” which certainly seems to be their health care code—other donors with that code include Bayer, Amgen, EliLilly, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Just another of many reasons it’s suspect.