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Swing and a miss form 2014.
Shoot and a miss: Wall Street Journal op-ed attacks 97% climate consensus | Climate Science Watch
Joseph Lee Bast is president and CEO of the Heartland Institute, an American nonprofit conservative and libertarian public policy think tank based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank founded in 1984 and based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.
In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question or deny the health risks of secondhand smoke and to lobby against smoking bans. In the decade after 2000, the Heartland Institute became a leading supporter of climate change denial. It rejects the scientific consensus on global warming, and says that policies to fight it would be damaging to the economy.
ad ho·mi·nem
[ˌad ˈhämənəm]
ADVERB
(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining:
"vicious ad hominem attacks"
relating to or associated with a particular person:
"the office was created ad hominem for Fenton"