Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Heartland climate change

  • Six days after the Heartland Institute launched an ad campaign comparing a belief in global warming to the psychology of mass murder, corporate sponsors are still exiting in droves.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The recent flight of insurance companies from leading climate change denial group The Heartland Institute isn't just due to the group's offensive Chicago billboard comparing scientists to "Unibomber" Ted Kaczynski.
  • (Raw Story)
  • A billboard suggesting that those who believe in global warming are as crazy as the Unabomber was taken down less than 24 hours after it went up--but not before the group behind the ad lost another prominent backer.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Microsoft donated software worth $59,908 to Heartland in 2011, according to documents now known to have been acquired under false pretenses by climate change warrior and MacArthur grant recipient Peter Gleick.
  • (22 WSBT)
  • The Heartland Institute is out with what is quite possibly its most ill-considered publicity stunt to date: a poster ad campaign comparing a belief in global warming to the psychology of mass murder.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Insurers and a Connecticut alcohol conglomerate halted their financial support of The Heartland Institute after it paid for billboard advertisements likening supporters of climate change science to murderers, terrorists and a dictator.
  • (Hartford Courant)
  • Conservation Hawks is working with America's hunters and anglers to address the single gravest threat on the horizon – climate change. We condemn the intellectually bankrupt and morally bereft Heartland Institute.
  • (Think Progress)
  • The billboard campaign was rolled out in advance of the Heartland Institute's seventh International Conference on Climate Change, which opens on May 21 in Chicago.
  • (New York Times)
  • Billboards popping up in the Chicago area compare climate change scientists and advocates with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, murderer Charles Manson and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
  • (msnbc.com)

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