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Heartland Institute Learning To Troll On Billboards
Fluffeh writes "The Heartland Institute is a lovely group of folks who take issue with mainstream climate science. They organize an annual get-together of like minded folk and talk trash about environmental change. 'The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society.' (That's from a press release!). Recently, when they were tricked by a researcher into sending him a lot of internal documents, they decided to go on the offensive and also get some more media attention. After all, any story is a good story, right? Launching a billboard with the Unabomber on it with the slogan 'I still believe in Global Warming. Do You?' was just the start, with the institute planning Fidel Castro, Charles Manson and possibly even Osama Bin Laden. That's when even their stout backers threatened to walk away, backing started to dry up — and it seems that common sense started to prevail — but only so far as to stop them from making their message too public."
'conservatives' are mostly christian and are almost entirely religion-believing. many (most?) have fundamentalist leanings.
those people are taught from day-1 that their bible is true and the word of man is always secondary.
'thinking' like that is always doubtful of science. how can it NOT be?
when you set your 'lambs' up to believe in bullshit and turn them against right-thinking and science, what DO you expect? you expect a lifetime of being shown non-intelletual ways is going to reverse itself suddenly? when you 'get' people very young and embed this emotional seed (religion), its nearly impossible to counteract later on in life. its often a life sentence of stupidity that they'll never get out from under.
what do they do, then? revel in it! rolling around like pigs in mud. 'look how stupid we are , WHEEEEE!'. seriously, its not far from that.
'god fearing people' also fear knowledge and reason. its a perfect marriage with the republicans. 100% perfect for the *modern* republicans, at least.
how could a group be so anti-science you ask? look around and see the new jesus-land (middle of US and almost all its south) that america has become. I'm amazed we get ANY science done in the US, anymore. all I see is christians forcing their views on people, in the laws and in cultures they don't understand and don't belong.
'liberal' is one who seeks higher understanding. we can see what the morons are doing and we're not joining in with their race-to-the-bottom.
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the other views it primarily as a political problem to be resolved through rhetoric and propaganda.
Which side is that? As far as I can tell, AGW has been politicized for a long, long time. Ultimately the wheels of science will turn, overcoming liars and politicizers on both sides.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."