Here is why Heartland is despised

And it has nothing to do with the source of their funding. Heartland will draw attention to studies which call the whole CO2 induced global warming crisis into question. Here is a study that invalidates the IPCC climate models as useful guides to future climate. Those models cannot simulate the real world radiative balance at the top of the atmosphere(TOA). The study "suggests that the historical rise in the air's CO₂ content has likely played a next-to-negligible role in the post-Little Ice Age warming of the world."

This news will not be welcomed by the CAGW crowd and so they deflect attention to the funders of the study rather than asking if the claims made are true.

Here is another study reported in Climate Change Reconsidered data from the Heartland Institute.  This study reports that there is no trend in tropical cyclones in East Asia as CO2 has increased in the atmosphere. The study covered the years 1945-2000 and concluded: "none of the time series shows a significant linear temporal trend, which suggests that global warming has not led to more landfalls in any of the regions in Asia."

This is just more cognitive dissonance for the CAGW alarmists. It invalidates the man-made global warming hypothesis.

Ho hum, some are dumb

The rains in Australia were not supposed to return based on American climate models. Nature didn't pay attention to the models or the prognostications of the Climate Commissioner in Australia. But the weather always has been hard to predict. Our climate models still need some work. If they can't predict 4 years out it is difficult to accept their forecasts for a century from now.

Australia had been experiencing a long period of drought (12 years or more) so in the political climate of climate change the drought was declared to be due to climate change. And true to its nature the climate changed again and now Australia is suffering from floods. Damn weather! Makes it hard to plan for it!