Posted on 12/18/2006 6:37:47 PM PST by woldnewton
WASHINGTON, DC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- December 18, 2006 -- Ewire -- Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists, according to The Center for Science and Public Policy.
Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, writes: "You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to 'senior elected and appointed government officials' who disagree with your opinion."
In what The Charleston (WV) Daily Mail has called "an intemperate attempt to squelch debate with a hint of political consequences," Senators Rockefeller and Snowe released an open letter dated October 30 to ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson, insisting he end Exxon's funding of a "climate change denial campaign." The Senators labeled scientists with whom they disagree as "deniers," a term usually directed at "Holocaust deniers." Some voices on the political left have called for the arrest and prosecution of skeptical scientists. The British Foreign Secretary has said skeptics should be treated like advocates of Islamic terror and must be denied access to the media.
Responds Lord Monckton, "Sceptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right. They do not, as you improperly suggest, 'obfuscate' the issue: they assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the 'consensus' argument and they compel necessary corrections ... "
Lord Monckton's Churchillian reproof continues, "You acknowledge the effectiveness of the climate sceptics. In so doing, you pay a compliment to the courage of those free-thinking scientists who continue to research climate change independently despite the likelihood of refusal of publication in journals that have taken preconceived positions; the hate mail and vilification from ignorant environmentalists; and the threat of loss of tenure in institutions of learning which no longer make any pretence to uphold or cherish academic freedom."
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His scolding of Snowe and Rockefeller was well-deserved.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/12/lord_moncton_stands_up_for_sci.html
psst: over here- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755188/posts
crack me up. great stuff.
No...so what? Two idiot US pols offered to stifle scientific debate, and a brit flat-out called them facists. What of it?
No, but that doesn't mean he's wrong.
Doesn't matter that he's a Brit. Lord Monckton is right on!
That should have been "Snowe (RINO-ME)".
Whadddaya... Nuts..?!!
This is GREAT! A British Lord backslapping two of the most ignorant/arrogant Senators in the U S Of A for being exactly Who they are!
Naked, stupid baboons who happen to be able to speak the current language of the United States.
Olympia and Rockefeller have gotten just a bit carried away with their names and their self importance!
Without facts, nor science, nor intelligent thought to back them up.
It's about time we Americans realize that the Senate is run by staffers, not their "props" and most of the staffers are rabid Dems
Snowe didn't write the letter to Exxon. Someone with a command the English language wrote it, which rules out Olympia.
It's about time we Americans realize that the Senate is run by staffers, not their "props" and most of the staffers are rabid Dems
You are absolutely right! No matter who we elect to office, the staff stays on, they just migrate from one senator to the other. Until the senate and house are cleaned of staff and start over, there will never be any improvement.
OB
Interesting, isn't it?
Bravo, Lord Monckton!
Denial. Denial. Denial.
Watch the the Global Warming Nutballs get louder, and louder, and louder.
Right up to the day they get their heads lopped off.
Idiots.
Thank you, Lord Monckton.
"How dare Lord Monckton tell us not to stifle (reasonable scientific) dissent."
I like this guy, I also agree with him.
Where do Snowe and Rockefeller get off making threats to EXXon.
Facists? What are those?
That's refreshing for a change.
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