Scientists Ask Obama To Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics

http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/17/scientists-ask-obama-to-prosecute-global-warming-skeptics/

The science on global warming is settled, so settled that 20 climate scientists are asking President Barack Obama to prosecute people who disagree with them on the science behind man-made global warming.

Scientists from several universities and research centers even asked Obama to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to prosecute groups that “have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change.”

RICO was a law designed to take down organized crime syndicates, but scientists now want it to be used against scientists, activists and organizations that voice their disagreement with the so-called “consensus” on global warming. The scientists repeated claims made by environmentalists that groups, especially those with ties to fossil fuels, have engaged in a misinformation campaign to confuse the public on global warming.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/17/scientists-ask-obama-to-prosecute-global-warming-skeptics/#ixzz3m6edPb4r

Wouldn't surprise me... no group in modern history has been less tolerant of other opinions and ideas than leftists.

There is no doubt that there has been a conspiracy by the extractive industries not to pay the price for their products being introduced into commerce, but the statute requires a criminal conspiracy. I would have to see where the nexus was with criminal intent. I do not think this conspiracy can be prosecuted under the statutes.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/17/scientists-ask-obama-to-prosecute-global-warming-skeptics/

The science on global warming is settled, so settled that 20 climate scientists are asking President Barack Obama to prosecute people who disagree with them on the science behind man-made global warming.

Scientists from several universities and research centers even asked Obama to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to prosecute groups that “have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change.”

RICO was a law designed to take down organized crime syndicates, but scientists now want it to be used against scientists, activists and organizations that voice their disagreement with the so-called “consensus” on global warming. The scientists repeated claims made by environmentalists that groups, especially those with ties to fossil fuels, have engaged in a misinformation campaign to confuse the public on global warming.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/17/scientists-ask-obama-to-prosecute-global-warming-skeptics/#ixzz3m6edPb4r

Curious is it not?

This shouts, no SCREAMS that they know they do not have the science on their side, recognize that they do not and are looking to anything to help them save their...grants.

It should surprise no one that the Global Warming advocates are at this point of desperation.

This seems to be one of the last examples of such an effort to halt contrary opinions.

Salinsky wrote:I guess you still think the tobacco industry had "the science on their side" when they were engaged in a decades-long campaign to deceive smokers about the health hazards of their products, eh Ol' Man Markle?

As you so love to do, since you have nothing, is to respond to a totally different question.

As you no doubt know, cigarettes were proven to be hazardous to your health by Nazi Germany before WW II.

As a tyke growing up in Chicago, I was surrounded by chain smokers, as was everyone else of my era. They were commonly called "coffin nails" or "cancer sticks" decades before the government had to tell citizens they were...ta da...dangerous.

As you have vividly exhibited by your fear, Global Warming is not anywhere close to the same thing. How could it be? NOTHING the Global Warming fear mongers have forecast for decades, has come true. In FACT, just the opposite has happened.

These are the same kooks that were beating their little tom tom's that we were entering an ICE AGE less than five decades ago. How is that even a heart beat compared to Earth being billions of years old?

Your analogy is accurate in one way. The Global Warming zealots are identical to the cigarette companies of which you speak. All for exactly the same reason. To make money.

I miss your "joke" postings about Werthers candy. Especially fun was your amusing efforts to explain your "joke". When you have to explain a joke...it's pretty bad. The great comedians have always been even funnier when they had a joke that bombed. Sadly you are not a Johnny Carson or Jay Leno.

Keep up the good work! With hard work you too could become a top notch foil as are 2seaoat and Wordslinger.

In FACT, just the opposite has happened.

Record floods, drought, and forest fires are the very extremes which were accurately predicted by climate scientist twenty years ago.

I have been adversely impacted by unprecedented floods over the last 12 years where river records going back to 1905 have had eight of the highest floods in the last 12 years. The opposite has not happened. Global climate change and increased levels of man made pollution are adversely impacting mankind. It is an important issue which we all should agree on what next we can do to minimize the impact on our grandchildren. It is not even a political debate any more, it is a matter of priorities in dealing with reductions of the pollution.

Anecdotal... and not supported by evidence. If the science were settled (it rarely is) there's no need to squash criticism.

http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N30/EDIT.php

Climate-Change-Induced Flooding Volume 17, Number 30: 23 July 2014

More frequent and more devastating floods are both (1)predicted for the future and (2)claimed to already be occurring by a host of climate alarmists, as a result of climate change that they claim is induced by anthropogenic CO2 emissions. But are these claims correct?

In a massive review of the subject conducted by a team of seventeen researchers hailing from eleven different countries, i.e., Kundzewicz et al. (2013), we learn the following: (1) "no gauge-based evidence has been found for a climate-driven, globally widespread change in the magnitude/frequency of floods during the last decades," (2) "there islow confidence in projections of changes in fluvial floods, due to limited evidence and because the causes of regional changes are complex," (3) "considerable uncertainty remains in the projections of changes in flood magnitude and frequency," (4) increases in global flood disaster losses reported over the last few decades "may be attributed to improvements in reporting, population increase and urbanization in flood-prone areas, increase of property value and degraded awareness about natural risks (due to less natural lifestyle)," (5) "the linkages between enhanced greenhouse forcing and flood phenomena are highly complex and, up to the present, it has not been possible to describe the connections well, either by empirical analysis or by the use of models," and (6) "the problem of flood losses is mostly about what we do on or to the landscape," which they say "will be the case for decades to come."

In closing, Kundzewicz et al. write that "the climate change issue is very important to flooding, but we have low confidence about the science," adding that "work towards improvements in GCMs [global climate models] to bring us to a point where all of this is made clear is much needed, and may take much time." And they thoughtfully remind us - in the interim - that "although media reports of both floods and global flood damage are on the increase, there is still no Mauna-Loa-like record (see Vorosmarty, 2002) that shows a global increase in flood frequency or magnitude.

Anecdotal... and not supported by evidence. If the science were settled (it rarely is) there's no need to squash criticism.


Record temps, record floods, record fires, melting ice.....when does it move from Anecdotal to facts?

Damned Global warming....