The Heartland Institute sinks to a new low (on Global Warming denialism)

[LongTomH]

From Bad Astronomer Phil Plait's blog:

The Heartland Institute, a far-right climate change denying "thinktank" has put up a series of billboards so disgusting, so vile, that I find it difficult to find words to tell you just how disgusting and vile they are.

So instead, I’ll show you one:

When I first heard of this earlier today, I thought it was a joke. No one would seriously do this, right? Creating an actual billboard like this would be taking Poe’s Law and aiming right between your own eyes!

But it’s real. Heartland actually put these up, and according to their press release, they’re proud of it. And other people Heartland has on the billboards? Charles Manson, Fidel Castro, and they’re considering putting up some with Osama bin Laden.

Yes, seriously.

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Still, there’s one thing I do want to highlight. The press release is a non-stop firehose of misinformation and spin, but among the venom-dripping things they say, one bit of crazy stands out:

The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society. This is why the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen.

Dr. Plait goes on to say that the global warming deniers are accusing others of what they themselves are guilty of.

Do you think Heartland Institute, and the other climate change deniers, have reached the absolute bottom and they can't go any lower? Every time I think that, they prove me wrong!

[longship]

1. PZ Myers also blogged about this

His take down on Pharyngula is classic Myers.

Highly recommended, as well as the post cited in the OP by the Bad Astronomer, Dr. Phil Plait.