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Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin
It's good to see the climate change debate becoming so measured and rational.
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The upside is that the crazy shines with such glaring intensity from that billboard that backers are leaving the Heartland Institute. I really hope we're finally reaching the point where the rabid right is impaling themselves on the spear of their own crazy. In the meantime, I'm writing to Comcast to inform them that if they insist on continuing to fund Heartland, they have competitors who will gladly accept my $127.23/mo to provide comparable services.
As Supporters Jump Ship, Heartland Institute Stands By Its Widely Condemned Anti-Science Hate Speech | ThinkProgress
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The Heartland Institute’s failed billboard campaign attacking the existence of climate change is driving a surge of corporate donors to abandon the group and prompting a mutiny among its Washington-based staff, which is decamping for less volatile surroundings, according to sources.
At the center of the retreat is a contingent of insurance companies and trade groups that donated more than $1 million over the last two years to the libertarian group’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., for programs related to federal insurance reform….
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