Posted on 09/19/2015 1:43:11 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The science on global warming is settled.
In fact, so settled that 20 climate scientists are asking President Barack Obama to prosecute people who disagree with them on the science behind man-made global warming.
Scientists from several universities and research centers even asked Obama to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to prosecute groups that “have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change.”
RICO was a law designed to take down organized crime syndicates, but scientists now want it to be used against scientists, activists and organizations that voice their disagreement with the so-called “consensus” on global warming. The scientists repeated claims made by environmentalists that groups, especially those with ties to fossil fuels, have engaged in a misinformation campaign to confuse the public on global warming.
“The actions of these organizations have been extensively documented in peer-reviewed academic research and in recent books,” the scientists wrote.
But these riled up academics aren’t the first to suggest using RICO to go after global warming skeptics. The idea was first put forward by Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who argued using RICO was effective at taking down the tobacco industry.
“In 1999, the Justice Department filed a civil RICO lawsuit against the major tobacco companies… alleging that the companies ‘engaged in and executed — and continue to engage in and execute — a massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public, including consumers of cigarettes, in violation of RICO,’” Whitehouse wrote in the Washington Post in May.
“We strongly endorse Senator Whitehouse’s call for a RICO investigation,” the scientists wrote to Obama. “The methods of these organizations are quite similar to those used earlier by the tobacco industry. A RICO investigation (1999 to 2006) played an important role in stopping the tobacco industry from continuing to deceive the American people about the dangers of smoking.”
“If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth’s climate, before even more lasting damage is done,” the scientists added.
This year has been a trying one for global warming skeptics. Earlier this year, Democratic lawmakers began an investigation into scientists who disagreed with the White House’s stance on global warming. Many of these skeptical scientists were often cited by those critical of regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Arizona Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva went after universities employing these researchers, which resulted in one expert being forced to get out of the field of climate research altogether.
“I am simply not initiating any new research or papers on the topic and I have ring-fenced my slowly diminishing blogging on the subject,” Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado wrote on his blog.
“Congressman Grijalva doesn’t have any evidence of any wrongdoing on my part, either ethical or legal, because there is none,” Pielke wrote. “He simply disagrees with the substance of my testimony – which is based on peer-reviewed research funded by the US taxpayer, and which also happens to be the consensus of the IPCC (despite Holdren’s incorrect views).”
This is so incredibly frightening that I don’t even know what to say.
Anybody who attempts to silence or suppress skeptics rather than refute them based upon evidence is NOT a scientist.
I kept thinking it was the Onion....
This is called EVIL.
I want the NAMES OF THESE “SCIENTISTS”.
I saw this posted under satire. Isn’t it satire?
another freeper posted a thread on this topic....calling it SATIRE...oddy enough
Right now this might be intended as a joke to get a rise out of the “denier” crowd, but demons can quickly turn jokes into reality.
What keeps science honest? Well it can’t be just “scientists.”
Here is a list of the “scientists”.
Those with a “ ** “ in front of their names are state employees and are in violation of the constitution for officially going on the record asking the President and the DOJ to prosecute those who disagree with them.
Jagadish Shukla, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Edward Maibach, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Barry Klinger, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Paul Schopf, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
David Straus, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
** Edward Sarachik, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
** Michael Wallace, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
** Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park,
MD
** William Lau, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
** Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
**T.N. Krishnamurti, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
** Vasu Misra, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
** Ben Kirtman, University of Miami, Miami, FL
** Robert Dickinson, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Michela Biasutti, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY
Mark Cane, Columbia University, New York, NY
Lisa Goddard, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New
York, NY
Alan Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT
It is called Lysenkoism
These are not "scientists". These are straight-on Communists.
If any thinking person needed further proof that this “Global Warming” is a HOAX, they need look no longer.
It is preposterous that one, but twenty, so called “scientists” would sue anyone that doubted their “work!”
It is fear that the gravy train will stop and they can bilk the public no more.
Nothing can be done about this kind of thing outside the spiritual world.
Thank you for this list. It is time to get active against these fascist Communist bastards.
Indeed this ought to be Exhibit A for what a racket it is.
Hey Donald Trump! Are you reading this?
Do the climate scientists have names? They should be listed...and destroyed.
While you are correct in a way, there are physical world solutions available.
Why not appoint an Inquisitor to root them all out!
We could even set up some special chambers with effective instruments of...shall we say...coercion, to identify the skeptics who refuse to admit that they are skeptics and to make them recant.
I think a great first step is to pray for God’s power and guidance.
These guys might as well have stripped naked in the public square. Now are we going to react as though THEY are the vulnerable ones, or as though WE are?
You need to get the energy of God involved, otherwise you just end up walking into another satanic trap.
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