Joseph Bast

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joseph Bast
Occupation	Business Executive
Date Of Birth	Jan 22, 1958(1958-01-22)
Age	66
Birthplace	Kimberly
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Capricorn

Joseph Bast Biography

Joseph Bast is one of the most popular and richest Business Executive who was born on January 22, 1958 in Kimberly, Wisconsin, United States. Bast is born the 22nd of January 1958, in Kimberly, Wisconsin where he was a student at an Catholic kindergarten. He was a student of Economics in the University of Chicago but dropped out of school to spend more time at Heartland Institute. Heartland Institute. Bast was married to Diane Bast, who grew with him in Kimberly.

Joseph Lee Bast is the former CEO and president for the Heartland Institute, an American non-profit conservative and libertarian public policy think tank located in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Bast resigned as CEO and president in July of 2017 after the former congressman Tim Huelskamp took over those positions within the organization. Bast continues to be a member of the Heartland’s Board of Directors.

Bast was one of editors for the Climate Change Reconsidered collection of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC). Bast was also involved in the development of the State Policy Network, and has published several books, including some that contest the conventional wisdom about cigarettes smoking. In 2014 the two of them co-authored an article titled “The Myth of the Climate Change ‘97%'” in the Wall Street Journal along with Roy Spencer which argued that the frequently cited assertion the claim that “97% of the world’s scientists believe climate change is an urgent problem” is false because it comes from surveys with tiny sample sizes, and the questionnaire confuses the belief that there is no global warming and belief in the dangers of global warming. An article published in Nature criticised his views on global warming , as well as secondhand smoke.

Joseph Bast Net Worth

Joseph Bast is one of the richest Business Executive from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph Bast 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year 1984 was the time that David Padden founded the Heartland Institute — an American conservative and liberal public policy think tank — and placed Bast as the head of the fledgling organisation. Bast has been the president and CEO since. “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 said to in the Chicago Tribune in 1995.

Based on Bloomberg News, Bast’s skepticism of the threats caused by global warming has led to him becoming “a favorite bogeyman of environmentalists.” As of 2012, Bast was the first to sign off an ad campaign that was widely criticised which compared those who believe in global warming to the unabomber. The billboard was a source of anger for environmentalists as well as certain of the group’s advocates.

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Joseph Ranked on the list of most popular Business Executive. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joseph Bast celebrates birthday on January 22 of every year.