Are you a serial killer?

Do you believe climate change is happening? Do you believe that we might have just a little something to do with it? If so, you just may be a serial killer, mass murderer or terrorist according the Chicago-based Heartland Institute! The US think tank launched a poster campaign that compares people like the Unabomber and Osama Bin Laden to people concerned about global warming. According to the Guardian, it is "quite possibly one of the most ill-judged poster campaigns in the history of ill judged poster campaigns."

Here are a few highlights from their own justification for their actions:

• Because what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the “mainstream” media, and liberal politicians say about global warming.
• Still believing in man-made global warming – after all the scientific discoveries and revelations that point against this theory – is more than a little nutty. In fact, some really crazy people use it to justify immoral and frightening behavior.
• 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.

This campaign is so utterly ridiculous and unbelievable that I can't even find the words...

To read Bill McKibben's (350.org) open letter to the Heartland Institute, click here. Or, to hear what others have to say about this utterly ridiculous campaign, check out the following articles:

• http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-heartland-unabomber-climate-20120504,0,6654611.story
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/heartland-institute-launches-campaign-linking-terrorism-murder-and-global-warming-belief/2012/05/04/gIQAJJ3Q1T_blog.html
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/heartland-climate-change-billboard_n_1478011.html?ref=green