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Opposing the Climate Inquisition
American Thinker ^ | 17 Feb, 2023 | Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett

Posted on 02/17/2023 4:30:44 AM PST by MtnClimber

Climate alarmists falsely claim to uphold the sanctity of scientific integrity while simultaneously violating the scientific method by suppressing debate, scientific inquiry, and the free exchange of ideas.

Spokespersons for the “Climate Inquisition” (CI) do this, they say, because they have cornered the truth concerning the causes and consequences of climate change. Because of this, the CI tars climate realists and skeptics -- those who, because they follow the scientific method, point to various gaps in knowledge about climate and weaknesses in the argument that the earth is on the verge of a climate catastrophe -- with various offensive labels, perhaps the most opprobrious being, “climate denier.”

Recently, Roland Lloyd Parry, in an article originally published at AFP and distributed on Yahoo News, titled "Politics, cash, fame: what motivates climate change deniers,” jumped on the ad hominem bandwagon, claiming that climate skeptics are purely motivated by greed and fame.

Parry and the people he interviewed for the article use one of the most common and lazy accusations against climate change realists: that they are in the pocket of “Big Oil” and other corporations, seeking fame and fortune. These claims lack any basis in truth, which is why evidence of such a connection is rarely, if ever, provided. Of course, Parry provided nothing of substance; just opinions of some people who have made careers out of smearing climate realists.

In reality, climate realists such as the Heartland Institute and the other organizations dedicated to the promotion of providing sound policy founded in solid science, receive a negligible amount of funding compared to the vast amount of money invested in doomsaying climate research and climate-related political causes. Most accusers are unable to look at themselves in a mirror and see that if anyone is being bought and paid for...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 02/17/2023 4:30:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I am waiting for “Climate Realism” to become a crime.


2 posted on 02/17/2023 4:30:58 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Classical Science has been replaced by political science! didn’t you get the memo?


3 posted on 02/17/2023 5:06:45 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber

“Parry and the people he interviewed for the article use one of the most common and lazy accusations against climate change realists: that they are in the pocket of “Big Oil” and other corporations, seeking fame and fortune.”

One of the biggest surprises I had when I went to work for a major corporation with businesses in the energy sector, was that they weren’t fighting GW nonsense. If anything they supported it. I was stunned.


4 posted on 02/17/2023 6:58:34 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: MtnClimber

Climate cult has two major flaws why it can’t work China and India are not in the system but the scam ensues.


5 posted on 02/17/2023 7:05:36 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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...are purely motivated by greed and fame.

Now pimping her book made from - trees.


6 posted on 02/17/2023 9:05:38 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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