One of the leading promoters of scientific illiteracy about climate in the US, the Heartland Institute is sponsoring a new series of provocative billboards attempting to make Charlie Manson Fidel Castro and Ted Kaczynski into the poster boys for modern climate science.
Article: New Billboards Compare Climate Scientists and Unabomber, Mass Murderers
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.
The billboards, paid for the Heartland Institute, are designed to promote the organization's International Congress on Climate Change in Chicago later this month. The Heartland Institute describes itself as a nonprofit devoted to promoting free-market solutions for social and economic problems.
Climate scientists are already reacting to the actions, calling them "truly heinous" and the work of individuals who don't get real global-warming science. In addition, they say the billboards will only bring global-warming skeptics and those who support global warming further apart
This comes from the shills for Big Oil and Big Coal themselves the Heartland Institute:
Our Billboards
1. Who appears on the billboards?
The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber; Charles Manson, a mass murderer; and Fidel Castro, a tyrant. Other global warming alarmists who may appear on future billboards include Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee (who took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in 2010).
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
UPDATE: The WaPo is reporting the Heartland's digital billboards have been taken down in a huge PR flop.