Billboard Likening Climate Change Believers to Unabomber Is Taken Down

Heartland Institute hails 'experiment'

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The Heartland Institute disputes global warming, but that didn't stop the conservative social-issues group from turning up the heat with a suburban Chicago billboard showing a typically crazy-faced portrait of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and the headline, "I still believe in global warming. Do you?" After predictably pissing off just about everyone generating lots of free publicity, Heartland removed the incendiary sign. "This provocative billboard was always intended to be an experiment," the group says. "And after just 24 hours the results are in: It got people’s attention.

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