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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These Liers/hoaxers were caught years ago making up ship in their emails. The deception was clear.
If we had an honest Media that had run with Climate Gate the controversy would have ended back then.
Instead they are only interested in making sure Trump had two scoops of ice cream.
Typical liberal: All about fascism.
Classic case of projecting their faults onto others. And they know they are doing just that.
“Global Warming - Climate Change” world biggest hoax and scam.
Just like Obama causing Global Flooding by pissing in the ocean.
That much can humans contribute.
Elaborate scam to screw off taxpayers off their money!
Earth climate and changes are dependent on Sun’s and Sunspots activity supplying 99.99% of energy. Humans can do schit about it.
Volcano eruptions can produce much more distractions to climate than all humans and SUVs farting together.
CO2 is not poison, it is “food” for plants, which in turn produce Oxygen, that we need to breathe.
STOP the scam, jail all the scammers!!!
God bless and protect Mr. Trump!
MAGA!!!!
Yo 95% of scientwists:
Did you notice temperature drops when sun eclipse happened?
Was that because sun’s output was being shielded, or all the SUVs were confiscated?
Thought Crime. Who are the fascists?
No, those who believe that nonsense should be confined to a mental institution.
Climate change is a fraud. The pronouns are he, she and it, not zey or lim or putz. Blacks commit half of the crime. *slam is a violent ideology. Sex change is self mutilation. Abortion is murder.
Want to arrest me for my thoughts? Meet me in Roseville Newark NJ at 11pm Next Saturday.
Apparently a lot of public school teachers. In Calibfornia anyway.
I don’t deny that climate changes. I just don’t think that giving some outside authority our national sovereignty will fix that
Fortunately for Mr Merchant being an idiot is not considered a crime!
As I said in an earlier post today:
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Their Right to Remain Ignorant ends at their incessant attempts to foist their idiotic schemes on the rest of us that are hatched out of their ignorance.
Homosexuality and transgenderism.
Environmental policy.
Affirmative action policy.
Tax policy.
Climate Change.
Military policy.
Education policy.
Immigration policy.
Voting policy.
And so on. If ANY of these things only affected them, conservatives wouldn’t give a damn. But in this example, they want to criminalize people who don’t buy into their stupidity and ignorance. In this case, it is climate change they want to criminalize disagreement with. They have already done it in the area of homosexuality by redefining it as a civil rights issue instead of a sexual peccadillo.
This is how civil wars start.
I think being an idiotic moron should be a crime, Vice editor.
And while it would be fun to punish the idiot journalist, the same Constitution protects him.
That about covers it
No doubt there is climate change. We can see that from various ages- ice age, pre ice age etc. The question is whether man is causing a premature climate change. We do not know. What we do know is hucksters like al gore is making a fortune ranting and raving while maintaining a monstrous carbon foot print
Yes, as do our brave military men - whom he wouldn’t hesitate to criticize.
Climate change denial is an opinion. Speaking one’s opinion is protected by the First Amendment. They want climate change denial to be a thoughtcrime.
LOL! Okee Dokee then. Let’s see how that works at the next aunt feefuh gathering. Expressing your opinion that is.
Only full fledged lunatics and extremists would want to make it a crime. You shall know them by their fruits. They are very fruity. They can not think rationally.
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