Posted on 09/03/2017 6:55:29 AM PDT by rktman
Plenty of media outlets have blamed Hurricane Harvey on climate change, but one journalist used it as an excuse to claim people who don’t agree with him on climate should be punished.
“The science is too clear about what will happen in the near-term to continue to allow profiteers and ideologues to place the public in danger without consequence,” Motherboard editor Brian Merchant wrote Sept. 1. Motherboard is Vice Media’s science and technology outlet.
“Climate change denial should be a crime,” he concluded.
Hurricane Harvey “is what climate change looks like,” Merchant declared. But that claim doesn’t fit with history.
WeatherBell meteorologist Joe Bastardi called out Merchant’s story on twitter, asking “How do you explain so many storms stronger than Harvey, most from over 50 years ago?”
https://t.co/jsVABhuuBR How do you explain so many storms stronger than Harvey, most from over 50 years ago. Ever see this in 1886? explain pic.twitter.com/KSQ5P7PnPQ — Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) September 1, 2017
Bastardi also pointed out no one denies the “climate changes.”
“Lying like this should be crime,” Bastardi tweeted in reference to Merchant’s story.
The 2,600 word story was filled with over-the-top claims like a “state-sponsored disinformation campaign is putting residents in very real danger,” “Climate change denial can and will leave people dead,” and “Climate change is killing us right now.”
Merchant’s extreme belief that climate “deniers” ought to be punished is not unique. A Grist writer called for “war crimes trials” and a “climate Nuremberg” for climate change skeptics in 2006. He later apologized.
Rhode Island Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse argued in 2015 the government should use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to attack the fossil-fuel industry for its climate change “denial operation.”
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The denial of God should also be a crime.
Next.
Man Made Climate Change is a HOAX. And the inane thought that man can control the environment or the climate is foolish and stupid.
“....one journalist used it as an excuse to claim people who don’t agree with him on climate should be punished.”
This is exactly why the First Amendment was enacted and the Second to protect and defend it.
This should only surprise people who DO NOT understand the Left.
Most people here know that the Left has been brainwashing, humiliating, torturing, enslaving, and ultimately killing those who do not agree with them. In this country, they haven’t gotten past the humiliating part, but they’ll certainly do the rest of the list, once conditions are ripe for that, as they have NEVER shown an ability to quietly accept rejection and simply go away.
Hey Brian,
You should have a restraining order put on you to keep you away from any and all media outlets.
Hurricane history of Corpus Christie...
1875 a hurricane hits with 115mph winds just north sept 16th 150 killed in texas
1886 aug 20th a hurricane from the ESE with 150mph winds
1886 Sept 23rd 80mph from the south
1912 -95mph Oct 16th from the SSE
1913 from the S.E June 27th cat 1 75mph from the ESE
1916 aug 19th hits press 29.07 90mph 15 killed
1919 85mph from the east on september 14th a 16 ft storm surge kills 284 press 28.65, 900 homes destroyed.488 missing at sea off the Florida coast
1945 Aug 26th 130mph while moving by to the north just offshore a 4ft storm surge
1961 Hurricane Carla comes in just north of here by 50 miles with 140mph winds(hurdat) on Sept 11th.
1970 Aug 3rd 125mph from the ESE hurricane Celia hits as area has gusts to 161mph kills 1,1injures 466 causes 1.8 billion dollars damage (in 1998 figures) total devestation.65,000 Famalies suffered loses in Texas,8,950 homes destroyed,13,850 severly damaged,41,800 minor damage. Satellite at landfall
2017 August 25th/26th Hurricane Harvey hits just north of city by 23 miles with 130mph winds while moving N.W. Caused heavy damage to small towns to north Radar at landfall
Denying a LBGT..Whatever..advances should be crime,too.
You bigots!
I can go for making it a crime to deny the scientific “consensus” behind “Climate Change” but I would probably structure it a bit differently:
1. Denial: Penalty should be $.01/year payable at death.
2. Publishing Total Crap Climate Science: Penalty should be 20 years of hard labor or death at the option of the Phony Climate “Scientist”.
...Vice Editor: ‘Climate Change Denial Should Be A Crime...
Democrats and other liberals also would like any thoughts disagreeing with them should be a crime.
It’s their version of Orwellian thought crimes.
Deny global warming - death.
Deny 57 genders - death.
Deny socialism - death.
Obstruct globalism - death.
Promote traditional marriage - death.
Use of wrong pronoun. Soon to be crime in cal
Man Made Climate Change is a SCAM rather than a hoax. A hoax is usually a harmless prank rooted in humor. MMCC fails on both elements.
If you are caught without a label - death.
Bingo!
“Climate change denial should be a crime,” he concluded”
I will express any opinion I want about science, the climate, or any other topic. If you try to arrest and prosecute me, you are then no different that Stasi, Gestapo, NKVD, or Kymer Rouge. At that point when you try to suppress me, I have the legal and moral right to shoot you.
Clear enough?
“And the inane thought that man can control the environment or the climate is foolish and stupid.”
It’s the height of folly and arrogance. Like the Tower of Babel or the wings of Icarus.
When Leftists don’t get what they want, they demand arrests, detentions, and eventual executions of the opposition.
Sort of like the tests for witches in Salem and surrounding areas in the late 1600s.
OK. The thought police are gonna gonna gonna get ya?
Hey, I thought of doing obscene things to B.H. Obammy when he was pres.
I failed to act. But I did have evil thoughts.
Plus I vote conservative, believe in Jesus as my savior and have a CCW. And have a real low opinion of both political parties.
So I guess I am ripe for Gub mint re-edumacation camps.
F-ing idiots.
But FALSIFYING EVIDENCE SHOULD BE A CRIME.
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