Peter Sinclair's New Video Skewers Heartland's Offensive "Murderers, Tyrants and Madmen" Billboard Campaign

Brendan DeMelle DeSmog
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Peter Sinclair, the creator of the โ€œClimate Crock of the Weekโ€ series, has a new video posted at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media documenting just how out of touch with reality the Heartland Instituteโ€™s recent offensive Unabomber billboard campaign is. Featuring the calm and insightful comments of Margaret Thatcher, Sinclair shows the stupidity of Heartlandโ€™s claim that all of us who acknowledge climate change science are โ€œmurderers, tyrants, and madmen.โ€

Watch Sinclairโ€™s piece, part of Yale Forumโ€™s โ€œThis Is Not Coolโ€ series:

 

Brendan DeMelle DeSmog
Brendan is Executive Director of DeSmog. He is also a freelance writer and researcher specializing in media, politics, climate change and energy. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Grist, The Washington Times and other outlets.

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