- 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)
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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