Posted on 08/12/2007 2:53:13 PM PDT by GFritsch
Global warming has become a big-ticket item in the eyes of its supporters. At stake are research funds, jobs and the ability to control lives all over the globe. Most climatologists agree that over the last century, the Earth's average temperature has risen about one degree Celsius.
The controversy centers around the source of the temperature change -- man-made or natural causes. Global warming alarmists hold the view that it's man-made emissions of CO2 that's driving climate change, and they seek to suppress any dissent suggesting other causes.
According to the July 16 Washington Times, Michael T. Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), sent a threatening missive to Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, which read: "Take this warning from me, Marlo. It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on."
The Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce and the Department of Energy are all members of ACORE. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, held hearings on the matter. Following the hearings, the senator sent letters to the agencies asking them to "reconsider their membership in ACORE."
Speaking at the American leg of Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, said, "Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies." Referring to skeptics of man-made global warming, he said, "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." Traitors are either shot or imprisoned. I wonder which Robert Kennedy has in mind for the skeptics.
University of Oregon's George Taylor holds the title of state climatologist. Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to take that title from Taylor. The governor said Taylor's skepticism interferes with Oregon's stated goals to reduce greenhouse gases, the accepted cause of global warming in the eyes of a vast majority of scientists.
Earlier this year, the Weather Channel's Dr. Heidi Cullen called for the decertification of weathermen who were skeptical of man made global warming. Grist Magazine's staff writer David Roberts said that his solution for the "bastards" who were members of what he termed the global warming "denial industry" is, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."
"Global warming driven by greenhouse gas pollution (but ultimately by greed, racism and lying) is killing our Planet," says an article in Media With Conscience. It goes on to say, "Our Planet, the Earth -- is under acute threat from Climate Criminals threatening the Third World with Climate Genocide and the Biosphere with Terracide (the killing of our Planet)." Sen. Inhofe maintains a website citing these and other many examples of attacks on skeptics of manmade global warming.
—bflr—
That's what fascists do.
The tolerant and sophisticated Left loves you and cares about you so much that, if you disagree with them, they will have to kill you.
These rabid believers in the global warming religion sound as irrational as Muslims did during the Mohammed cartoon fiasco.
“Death to the infidels who don’t believe as we do” is an apt summary of both religions.
The Democratic Party is a fascist organization.
Anybody else remember, back in the ‘70’s, how the next ice age was imminent??
Remember the population explosion and widespread famine?? (By now we were all supposed to have starved to death)
But there’s something wrong with you if you don’t buy everything that is said about Global Warming.
That would be opposed to the "government toadies"? Ehhh Robert?
Al Gore and other prominent GW hucksters are making millions if not billions of dollars from this scam. Why exactly are people not even allowed to ask questions about just who is profiting? It certainly isn’t the GW “deniers”. And who is it that wants to spend our tax $ and tell us how we may live? It isn’t the GW “deniers”. And why are the vast majority of GW promoters liberals and democrats? Imagine how much scrutiny there would be if a huge conservative movement arose which made the originators extremely wealthy, let these conservatives tell you what kind of car you can have, pick through your trash, and tell you how you MUST live? And what if this conservative movement made death threats against anyone who questioned them, their motives,and their funding?
I've been reading a book about the rise of the Hitler youth in the 1930's. The parallels against all who opposed Hitler are so similar to that of those that oppose the GW crowd.
It is at hysterical levels.
You're right when you say, follow the money.
If I hear one more person rant on about "carbon footprints" I am going to scream. It is utter nonsense!
On the lighter side, I was up at 2:00 A.M. to watch the Persiad meteor showers. I Saw a few, but not as many as I had hoped!
I, personally, will never let anyone suppress my love of global warming....
I was down on my hands and knees, in the dust, last week doing some landscaping at one of our county parks.
I am hear to tell you I was feeling that 'ole global warming, but good!
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