Posted on 09/12/2017 3:35:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
Calls to punish global warming skepticism as a criminal offense have surged in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but it hasnt discouraged climate scientists like Judith Curry.
A retired Georgia Tech professor, she argued on her Climate Etc. website that Irma, which hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Saturday, was fueled in large part by very weak wind shear and that the hurricane intensified despite Atlantic Ocean temperatures that werent unusually warm.
That is the kind of talk that could get policymakers who heed her research hauled before the justice system, if some of those in the climate change movement have their way.
Climate change denial should be a crime, declared the Sept. 1 headline in the Outline. Mark Hertsgaard argued in a Sept. 7 article in the Nation, titled Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us, that murder is murder and we should punish it as such.
The suggestion that those who run afoul of the climate change consensus, in particular government officials, should face charges comes with temperatures flaring over the link between hurricanes and greenhouse gas emissions.
In the wake of Harvey, its time to treat science denial as gross negligence and hold those who do the denying accountable, said the subhead in the Outline article, written by Brian Merchant.
Brad Johnson, executive director of Climate Hawks Vote, posted last week on Twitter a set of climate disaster response rules, the third of which was to put officials who reject science in jail.
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I propose legislation enacting a death sentence on anyone who abridges freedom of thought or expression. How you like that, Brad.
Agreed. These lunatics are so relentless and so violent that only superior violence, surgically applied, will defeat them.
Perhaps the only hope is a truly sickening act of domestic terrorism that will open the eyes of the uninformed. This would need to be followed by, at a minimum, mass incarceration of Leftists, although mass execution would be far preferable.
Lunacy knows no bounds... And Al Gore’s disciples are as loony as it gets.
The Inquisition.
We should shoot anyone that declares “climate deniers should be charged with a crime”.
I could argue about laws that are on the books right now that police arrest and prosecute for are in fact thought crimes and in direct contradiction to the first Amendment.
But I’m not going to do that. Just know that all out total thought control is coming and it’s not far off. A decade, two maybe, and yes the police will love making the arrests. They’ll get to throw more people in prison, they’ll get better budgets. All their LEO friends, judges, lawyers, lawmakers, prosecutors and other justice system workers will benefit from it and that’s the reason they’ll do it.
That's a contradiction in terms. Jus' sayin' ...
Shhhh. The climate always has and always will change.
Just shut up and pay the UN so they can keep the climate from changing.
Shhhh. The climate is not stagnant; always changing.
The UN has control of the earth’s thermometer. Pay them to turn it down.
Leftists are right. The climate is changing. Naturally it is always changing.
Shhhh The climate has always changed.
We had global cooling when the dinosaurs walked the earth.
Long ago the earth cooled because the dinosaurs stopped farting.
Freedom from UN taxation and rule causes climate change.
Let’s say someone is jailed for being a “denier” & later is proven innocent or there is no proof of guilt,then will that “denier” be automatically awarded a substantial claim against the plaintiff? If so....bring it on;I would identify as a denier. I think the proper tort reform would stop a lot of these accusations against “deniers”.
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If Orwell wasn’t dead, he’d be in jail too.
Democrats are sooooooo thuggy.
Socialism has murdered hundreds of millions. Islam even more. Let’s prosecute the adherents of those first.
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