Heartland Institute Exposed:
Some are calling this incident "Denier-gate. "The Heartland Institute has long had a reputation of spreading climate misinformation. DeSmogBlog is a well established blog with a stated mission "to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science on climate change." DeSmogBlog posted this article along with PDFs of the "leaked" documents: "Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine"