Posted on 07/07/2025 5:45:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A United Nation’s report issued last month calls for the criminalization of spreading “disinformation and misinformation” about global warming. Is it the desperate act of a dying crusade – or business as usual for the climate fanatics?
While our hope is the former, it’s more likely the latter.
According to Elisa Morgera, the U.N. special rapporteur on climate change, governments should “criminalize misinformation and misrepresentation (greenwashing) by the fossil fuel industry” as well as “criminalize media and advertising firms for amplifying disinformation and misinformation by fossil fuel companies.”
This is disturbing. Who gets to decide what is “disinformation and misinformation”? We’ve already seen, thanks to COVID-19, that the meaning of those words is determined exploitatively by the ruling class and the loudest voices, not by any objective means.
Just the News quotes experts who say the call for criminalization shows a growing desperation among the climate alarmists. Given that global warming has cooled off considerably as a pressing issue for the public, this rings true.
Yet demanding that skeptics be arrested and tried is not a fresh fantasy for the eco-fascists. They’ve been dreaming about a 21st-century inquisition of those who hold dissenting views (the Galileos of our time?) for more than a decade:
- Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island urged the Justice Department “to consider filing a racketeering suit against the oil and coal industries for having promoted wrongful thinking on climate change,” author Walter Olson noted in 2015.
- Twenty “scientists” wrote a letter to President Barack Obama to “strongly endorse” Whitehouse’s “call for a RICO investigation.”
- In 2016, a year after 17 attorneys general pursued fraud allegations against climate change skeptics, Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the Senate Judiciary Committee that “the FBI was looking into information regarding climate change dissent and ‘whether or not it meets the criteria for what we could take action on,'” the Washington Times reported.
-Even before that, a hack writing for Gawker claimed that “man-made climate change kills a lot of people,” that “it’s going to kill a lot more,” and insisted that “it’s time to punish the climate-change liars.”
- Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” who is actually an engineer, said “we’ll see what happens” when asked about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s 2014 wish that there was a law to “punish” skeptics and “deniers.” Nye said he thought the “chilling effect” of punishment against “scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change” was “good.”
- Fifteen years ago, a “British lawyer-turned-campaigner” was agitating for “the United Nations to accept ‘ecocide’ as a fifth ‘crime against peace,’ which could be tried at the International Criminal Court,” the Guardian reported. Supporters wanted to use it “to prosecute ‘climate deniers’ who distort science and facts to discourage voters and politicians from taking action to tackle global warming and climate change.”
- A U.S. attorney subpoenaed the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s donor lists for the purpose of punishing “CEI by making people less willing to donate,” University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds and Instapundit founder wrote in USA Today.
- Earlier this year, a screed from a “climate justice” academic writing under the imprimatur of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, asked if “international criminal law” should “be used against those who promote this dangerous trend” of “climate denial.” She answered the question thusly: “Criminal sanctions are the most potent tools we have to mark out conduct that lies beyond all limits of toleration.” The time has arrived, she added, “to prosecute them.”
- Michael Mann of the hockey stick graph tried to put National Review out of business with a lawsuit.
Rather than debate the science and weigh the evidence, global warming zealots have long preferred shutting down those who don’t agree with them, those who dare say things they don’t like. They’d rather silence heterodoxy with jail time, prison sentences, and economic sanctions, which neatly sums up who they are and what their goals are.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution”
“Trust the science”...
Climate change, Global warming and Global cooling happen every single day around Earth...
it is also known as “weather”....
The climate fanatics will carry on, escalating into ever higher levels of extremity. However, I believe they may have reached their high-water mark as to policy influence. The laws of economics and physics both weigh heavily against them, and the consequences of ignoring those laws are becoming very costly.
there shall be no debate
Da*n that “wrongful thinking!”
We must all, each and every one, trust and obey our government and our beloved media.
The left is having trouble deciding whether climate hysteria or Trump is their most pressing existential threat.
Amen to that!
LOL! USELESS UN!
“Climate change” (global warming) is an arrogant false religion and an idol.
We sure got off track. Things were better without this "we're from the government and we're here to help."
EPA has to go.
There is no proof of manmade climate change.
Bkmk
Absolutely agree. We washed clothes this morning in our EPA restricted automatic washer, after manually adding, as usual, 5 gallons of water with a bucket.
“A United Nation’s report issued last month calls for the criminalization of spreading “disinformation and misinformation” about global warming.”
Sounds like a good reason for the US to say ADIOS to the UN and then seize its buildings. Maybe give them a week’s notice, to be kind.
I now take my clothes to the laundromat with a bunch of old machines. Love'm.
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The left is having trouble deciding whether climate hysteria or Trump is their most pressing existential threat.
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“Why not BOTH?!”
- Leftards any/every where/time
I’m thinking “climate change” is a post British empire / EU psyop.
You are a declining colonial and global power. You are trying to remain relevant in the world. Other large countries have surpassed you in all regards, particularly nearby Russia, who you have been trying to control for over 3 centuries. There is also the United States, which is an ally, but can not be allowed to go their own path.
Energy is the base of the economy, but you do not own any energy yourself
What to do? Bring everyone down to your level.
Create a global political paranoia about the creation of energy. Limit its production, sale, and use. Hobble all energy (particularly oil/gas/coal) producers you do not control. Do it through globalist institutions and organizations you control, thus also strengthening the oversight of your institutions.
Carbon taxes and net-zero will also create a new form of counterfeit, fiat currency, based on others’ energy, which your banks can control the trading of
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