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Joseph Lee Bast is an American nonprofit executive. He is the co-founder, president and CEO of the Heartland Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank based in Chicago, Illinois. ==Biography== Bast was born on January 22, 1958 in Kimberly, Wisconsin where he attended a Catholic elementary school. He studied economics at the University of Chicago but left before receiving a degree in order to devote more time to the Heartland Institute, which had become "a 60-hour-a-week obsession."〔 Bast married Diane Bast, who grew up with him in Kimberly. In 1984, Bast co-founded the libertarian think tank the Heartland Institute.〔 He began the role of president and CEO in 1994. "Personally, I'm a fallen-away libertarian. I place a high value on individual freedom and I tend to look at most issues from that perspective. But I'm not sure it is the only way anymore," Bast told the ''Chicago Tribune'' in 1995. Bast was one of the editors of the NIPCC 2011 interim report "Climate Change Reconsidered." He was also involved in the creation of the State Policy Network, and has written several books, some of which challenge mainstream claims about cigarette smoking. In 2014, he co-authored an article entitled "The Myth of the Climate Change '97%'" in the ''Wall Street Journal'' along with Roy Spencer which argued that the oft-cited claim that "97% of the world's scientists believe climate change is an urgent problem" is misleading because the figure is derived from surveys with small sample sizes, and the questionnaire conflates belief in negligible global warming with belief in dangerous global warming. A 2011 article in ''Nature'' criticized his position on global warming and second-hand smoke. Bast was a member of the board of directors of Shimer College, a Great Books and liberal arts college in Chicago. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Bast」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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