cohenite,

What do reckon about the latest media campaign from the Heartland Institute. Absolutely gobsmackingly insane (if you don't mind me saying so :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/may/04/heartland-institute-global-warming-murder?CMP=twt_gu

This is the orgainsiation that unceasingly pushes the "AGW is bilge" line.

Here's an excerpt from its own press release:
"Billboards paid for by the Heartland Institute point out that some of the world's most notorious criminals say they "still believe in global warming:....The billboard series features [among others]Ted Kaczynski, the infamous unabomber, Charles Manson, a mass murderer, and Fidel Castro, a tyrant...what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists in the "mainstream" media and liberal politicians say about global warming..."

But wait, there's more.....
"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."

Unbelievable!

@ Poirot,

<<Billboards paid for by the Heartland Institute point out that some of the world's most notorious criminals say they "still believe in global warming>>

I’d say it’s proof of the old idiom: “what goes around comes around”

It’s a ploy the warmists have been using for years. If you read Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway (a source much cited by warmists on OLO) you get the distinct impression that the only scientists who doubt AGW are those funded by Big Tobacco or Big Oil.

SPQR,

It's difficult to deny that a promotion such as this is incredibly damaging to Heartland's credibility. I mean it's just plain stupid.

The pertinence of you're "what goes around comes around" idiom is entirely lost amidst the inanity of Heartland's premise.

It reminds me of when Fox News started a comedy segment to counter Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert...and the segment was exceedingly lame and not funny, and consequently was pulled very quickly from programming.

...stupidy, stupidy stupidy (to quote Baldrick once more)

When economists say that there is lots of oil left in the world that is an ecologically obscene distortion of the truth. Most of what's left is not the good oil, but the bad oil that will increase global warming to such an extent that it will destroy the world economy, food production and billions of people will starve. Especially if fuels for vehicles is distilled from food crops of corn, sugar or wheat, which is planned in many countries. Without oil, democratic countries with fall apart. The only ethical choice for Australia to to conserve our own oil, bear the pain of much higher petrol prices and to recognise this is threat to Australian national security is tantamount to treason by big oil interests.

If we had leaders who had any brains or morals at all, they would act decisively and nationalize the oil and gas industry.
Only allow a small amount of gas to be exported.
Bring in a punitive tax on large cars, give a tax incentive to own a very fuel efficient or electric car.
Ban private cars from CBDs, provide free public transport in CBDs, improve, electrify and extend railways.

*If we had leaders who had any brains or morals at all, they would act decisively and nationalize the oil and gas industry*

Hehe. Given that the Govt can't even supervise the installation of
pink batts, now they are going to run the oil and gas industry :)

Perhaps you should try Venezuela and see what happened there.

Australian banana republic, here we come, if Sarnian has his way.