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	Comments on: Help NCSE Nail Down The Heartland Institute&#8217;s Latest Trick	</title>
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		By: Sylvester B		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[G from CA: Your name wouldn&#039;t be Gleich would it? Chuckle.]]></description>
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					<description><![CDATA[If that postcard offering a &quot;chance&quot; to &quot;win $500&quot; doesn&#039;t have a legal disclaimer on it, including the well-known words &quot;void where prohibited by law,&quot; it might be an opening for a way to threaten these dorks with legal action. 

Frankly I would not be terribly upset if someone hacked the air conditioning system at their office, so the place heats up to a good 85 degrees Fahrenheit while the thermostats all show 72.   That or burn a decent quantity of coal upwind of them for a few days, so they get a whiff of what they&#039;re selling.  &quot;Oh P.U.!, what&#039;s that nasty smell?  Coal?  Really?  Eww....&quot;

Realistically the best weapon to use against scum like Heartland is ridicule and sarcasm.  For example a billboard showing a background of a photo from the Philippines, with a face-closeup of Pinocchio in the foreground with his nose grown out to a foot in length, the headline &quot;Climate change is a myth,&quot; and a URL such as &quot;heartlandlies.com.&quot;   Or send out postal mail to the same mailing list, with postcards offering a chance to win $500 of storm &#038; flood insurance with a &quot;force majeure&quot; exclusion for &quot;acts of God and climate change.&quot; 

Don&#039;t even engage these people at the level of reasoning.  The goal is to make them look like fatuous liars and quacks, to the undecideds.  The way to get there isn&#039;t by arguing facts and theories, but to just go after them as liars, quacks, charlatans, and frauds, deserving of ridicule and scorn.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If that postcard offering a &#8220;chance&#8221; to &#8220;win $500&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have a legal disclaimer on it, including the well-known words &#8220;void where prohibited by law,&#8221; it might be an opening for a way to threaten these dorks with legal action. </p>
<p>Frankly I would not be terribly upset if someone hacked the air conditioning system at their office, so the place heats up to a good 85 degrees Fahrenheit while the thermostats all show 72.   That or burn a decent quantity of coal upwind of them for a few days, so they get a whiff of what they&#8217;re selling.  &#8220;Oh P.U.!, what&#8217;s that nasty smell?  Coal?  Really?  Eww&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>Realistically the best weapon to use against scum like Heartland is ridicule and sarcasm.  For example a billboard showing a background of a photo from the Philippines, with a face-closeup of Pinocchio in the foreground with his nose grown out to a foot in length, the headline &#8220;Climate change is a myth,&#8221; and a URL such as &#8220;heartlandlies.com.&#8221;   Or send out postal mail to the same mailing list, with postcards offering a chance to win $500 of storm &amp; flood insurance with a &#8220;force majeure&#8221; exclusion for &#8220;acts of God and climate change.&#8221; </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t even engage these people at the level of reasoning.  The goal is to make them look like fatuous liars and quacks, to the undecideds.  The way to get there isn&#8217;t by arguing facts and theories, but to just go after them as liars, quacks, charlatans, and frauds, deserving of ridicule and scorn.</p>
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