Steyn puts Warmists in the Dock

americanthinker.com ^ | 9/19/2015 | Richard Kirk

[rktman]

Steyn divides his work into 12 chapters which contain, in total, 120 testimony segments. Almost all focus on damning observations about Mann’s methods, conclusions, and harassment of dissenting scientists -- many of whom are still in the anthropogenic global warming camp. Thus, the book isn’t a broadside against apocalyptic climate change per se but rather a barrage against Michael Mann, the inventor of global warming’s most effective propaganda icon --- the “hockey stick” diagram of global temperature. (Note: The diagrammatic “hockey stick” is lying flat with only the blade projecting upward to represent an unprecedented temperature rise in the last century.)

[rktman]

Careful Mark. You may the first one to be arrested and tried for the heretical comments about the "settled science" that these liars are shoving down our throats. Maybe even be forced to wear a big "D" on your outer garments so you can be made fun of and have rocks thrown at you. You awful, evil, disgusting denier you. :>}

[Leaning Right]

I hesitate to use the phrase “never wrong” because it can easily come back to bite me. But, IMHO, there are two folks out there who simply nail it every single time. They are never wrong.

One of them is Mark Steyn. The other is Sarah Palin.

[rktman]

Here’s a link to the article about “scientists” demanding(asking) the lyin’ king prosecute DENIERS.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/17/scientists-ask-obama-to-prosecute-global-warming-skeptics/#ixzz3m6i5gZfj

[Huaynero]

“Careful Mark. You may the first one to be arrested and tried for the heretical comments about the “settled science”....

“They” likely have made a first cut of a list, nothing now but to check it twice!

Federal government should totally seek RICO charges against climate change skeptics
Posted on 9/18/2015, 7:00:01 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3338567/posts

A group of 20 university professors are hoping the federal government will try to prosecute climate change skeptics. The group sent a letter to the White House earlier this month comparing those who are a bit doubtful regarding man-made global warming to the tobacco industry.

We appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress. One additional tool – recently proposed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change…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....

[rktman]

Thanks. I knew I saw something about some “correct thinking” folks invoking the RICO act against evil deniers. I know, I know. We won’t think we’re so clever when we’re treading water.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I "Heart" Mark Steyn.

I also (what's the verb here?) "cerebrum" him with all my frontal lobe!

[GOPJ]

Why stop with ‘deniers’?

How long until ‘liberals’ call for conservatives to be arrested for not believing the rest of their liberal dogma?

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. HOORAY Mark Steyn

You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.

/Bastiat

CCCP - Current Climate Change Propagandists

[PJammers]

What worries me is there are reports that any scientist who questions the white house policy on climate change have had thier funding stripped and forced to resign. Settled science means agree or lose your livelihood.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Every election is, more or less, an advance auction of stolen goods.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I (independently) coined the term “neo-Lysenkoism” of describe the current state of climate science. Others agree.

[jpsb]

I saw that on Drudge, unbelievable.

[Iron Munro]

The experts are never wrong.

Back in the 1970's it was settled science that we were heading for a mini ice age.

[Iron Munro]

A group of 20 university professors are hoping the federal government will try to prosecute climate change skeptics.

Cut off their federal government grants, subsidies and other financial backing and see how quickly they change their opinions.

[rktman]

LOL!

[PGalt]

Well-said, LiM. Thanks. Let’s recover some of that stolen (Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat) loot.

DEFUND/DISMANTLE socialist collectives/schemes, foreign and domestic.

http://www.usdebtclock.org

We can’t afford them.

[rktman]

It’s posted at quite a few sites I frequent.

[PGalt]

Cut off their federal government grants, subsidies and other financial backing and see how quickly they change their opinions.

BUMP!

[rodguy911]

The last two graphs over at AT go a long way to show what Stein is up to. He's countering a lawsuit brought by Mann whose intimidation techniques know no bounds.He screwed around with the wrong guy when he picked Mark Steyn.

One might ask why Steyn is so hell-bent on exposing Michael Mann rather than broadly addressing the issue of climate change -- and why he structures his book so that it reads like the sequential testimony of a hundred different witnesses, interspersed with witty Steyn asides? The answer is that Steyn, National Review, et al. are being sued for defamation by the aforementioned Dr. Mann. In other words, true to form, Mann is using intimidation to silence critics. Specifically, the legal case concerns a National Review blog post dated July 15, 2012, in which Steyn quotes aerospace engineer Rand Simberg’s negative comments about the Penn State hockey-stick inventor, including the remark that Mann has become “the Jerry Sandusky of climate science.” Steyn proceeds in a mere 147 words to distance himself somewhat from Simberg’s metaphor, to identify Mann as “the man behind the fraudulent ‘hockey-stick’ graph,” and to note that the same college president who “declined to find one of its star names [Paterno] guilty of any wrongdoing” and who was forced to resign over the Sandusky scandal also oversaw the exculpatory investigation of Mann after the “Climategate” emails were made public. The fact that this speech-suppressing defamation suit in the D.C. courts has been going on for years without media outrage clearly shows that Steyn’s derogatory book title applies to American journalists and courts as much as to the now-greatly-diminished Penn State climatologist.

Richard Kirk is a freelance writer living in Southern California. Opinion columnist for the North County Times (1996-2012); online reviews: http://spectator.org/people/richard-kirk/all; blog: http://musingwithahammerkirk.blogspot.com/

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I forgot the attribution: H. L. Mencken.