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."

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crazy

[Anonymous Coward]

Shills for the oil industry.

Re:crazy

[I_am_Jack]

Really? So if I oppose the Heartland Institute for being primarily funded by the oil industry and its cohorts, then I must be supporting Big Government. Your new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

Re:Keep Spreading Your Lies and Uncertainty

[PopeRatzo]

It's time to start thinking about how to deal with the inevitable changes when they happen

It's time to start thinking about how to deal with the global warming deniers.

Aren't there some empty FEMA camps somewhere where we can put them where they won't hurt anyone?