Sunday, May 6, 2012

Ultra-Right Heartland Institute Compares Belief in Global Warming to Mass Murder « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Ultra-Right Heartland Institute Compares Belief in Global Warming to Mass Murder « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:


Ultra-Right Heartland Institute Compares Belief in Global Warming to Mass Murder

The ultra conservative Heartland Institute is holding its 7th annual anti-scientific “international conference on climate change” in Chicago on May 21st to the 23rd. (Seehttp://heartland.org/events/seventh-international-conference-climate-change) To draw attention to the conference, the well-funded Heartland started an ad campaign comparing people who believe in global warming to murderers.
(Below is an New York Times article on their ad campaign.)
May 4, 2012 NYTimes

Heartland Pulls Billboard on Global Warming

By RACHEL NUWER
Climate education: Ted Kaczynski, whose homemade bombs killed three people and wounded 23.
Heartland Institute A billboard campaign: Ted Kaczynski, whose homemade
bombs killed 3 people and wounded 23.
Drivers moving along Chicago’s inbound Eisenhower Expressway on Friday may have been surprised to see Ted