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Another call to arrest climate “deniers”
WUWT ^ | 4/7/2015 | Eric Worral

Posted on 04/07/2015 9:18:36 AM PDT by Signalman

Adam Weinstein, of the Gawker, has added his voice to the growing list of greens, who demand a brutal authoritarian response to the vexing problem of people who have a different opinion.

According to Weinstein;

Man-made climate change happens. Man-made climate change kills a lot of people. It’s going to kill a lot more. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people’s deaths. It’s time to punish the climate-change liars.

This is an argument that’s just being discussed seriously in some circles. It was laid out earlier this month, with all the appropriate caveats, by Lawrence Torcello, a philosophy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Weinstein bases his claim that man made climate change “kills a lot of people” on a WHO page, which estimates that 150,000 people per annum are dying because of climate related extreme weather and other problems, such as crop failure.

However, this claim simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Even the IPCC has failed to establish a link between CO2 and extreme weather. In addition, the rise in CO2 has so far been strongly beneficial for crop yields – satellites have detected a substantial greening of the planet, thanks largely to the fertilisation effect of the rise in atmospheric CO2.

In recent years we have all seen a worrying surge of hate speech against climate skeptics, and a disturbing level of political acquiescence in the face of murderous fantasy and intolerance. These incidents include a government sponsored celebration of climate murder in a theatre production, MSM cartoons celebrating political violence, more cartoons, proposals for soviet style forced “reeducation”, calls for the death penalty, calls for “deniers” to be jailed, wishes for divine retribution against “deniers”, the gruesome 10:10 video fantasy about murdering the children of “deniers”, and prominent environmentalist David Suzuki’s repeated calls for “deniers” to be jailed, here, and here. There have been far too many threats against the liberty and lives of ordinary people, whose crime against humanity is to believe that 18 years with no change in global temperature, might be an indication that the climate “crisis” has been exaggerated.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2016election; adamweinstein; asking4it; climate; climatechange; election2016; gawker; gleeaikin; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greeniacs; greenparty; newyork; trump; tyranny; wuwt
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1 posted on 04/07/2015 9:18:36 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman
And likewise how about laws that punish people when AGW is proven false?
2 posted on 04/07/2015 9:19:43 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Signalman

It’s obvious that this has now become a religion. To deny the existence of man-made global warming is now heresy.


3 posted on 04/07/2015 9:20:57 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: Signalman

Another nobody.


4 posted on 04/07/2015 9:22:25 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (What's good for Christianity might not be good for your 401K)
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To: Signalman

I wish I could find just ONE of these “smart people” who can explain just how it is global warming works. How does CO2 know which way down is?

1Peter3:15


5 posted on 04/07/2015 9:25:05 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Signalman
We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people’s deaths.

We do?

6 posted on 04/07/2015 9:25:09 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: wastoute

And how are they able to measure an inch with high precision when they are using a yardstick.


7 posted on 04/07/2015 9:26:41 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Signalman

IOW.....”We want to have the choice to exterminate who we want and not leave it to nature.”


8 posted on 04/07/2015 9:27:12 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Signalman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, the literary critic, the philosopher, coined the term “suspension of disbelief” in 1817.

It is a tacit understanding between storyteller and audience. The storyteller weaves a fantastical tale and, for the duration of the tale-telling, the audience willingly suspends its disbelief in, say, talking animals or scary monsters or post-apocalyptic Earth.

But there are limits to suspension of belief.

the coolness of the American people to dire warnings of global warming is not because they are dimwits, not because they’ve been unduly swayed by letter-writing climate change deniers, not because the have relied on folks in Congress to tell them how to think on global warming. No, it’s because the public is no longer willing to suspend disbelief when it comes to alarmist claims about climate change.

9 posted on 04/07/2015 9:29:45 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Signalman

The Climate Taliban.


10 posted on 04/07/2015 9:30:01 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
ADAM...... the enviro wizard...and his Magic Moose!!


11 posted on 04/07/2015 9:30:55 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

[ IOW.....”We want to have the choice to exterminate who we want and not leave it to nature.” ]

Funny how those to belive exclusively in evolution and nature resort to intelligent design BY MAN!!!!


12 posted on 04/07/2015 9:30:59 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Signalman
Arrest us huh? No, they want to do much more than that.

"No Pressure, your choice."


13 posted on 04/07/2015 9:31:17 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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I’m guessing that there’s just a bit of a correlation between “deniers” and “firearms ownership”

This little twerp volunteering to go out and take part in the attempted arrests he’s advocating for?


14 posted on 04/07/2015 9:32:28 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“IOW.....”We want to have the choice to exterminate who we want and not leave it to nature.”

The world would be a much better place if liberals could just kill all of the non-believing infidels, right?


15 posted on 04/07/2015 9:32:41 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people’s deaths.

Then I suppose all the Obama voters need to be rounded up and tossed in prison. Actually i'm pretty much okay with that.

16 posted on 04/07/2015 9:32:50 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“The Climate Taliban.”

The “Turner Diaries” for Liberal eco-whackos


17 posted on 04/07/2015 9:33:29 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

I swear these people are Nazis. Chilling.


18 posted on 04/07/2015 9:34:23 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Signalman

The most honest, sincere, mindless panic possible.


19 posted on 04/07/2015 9:34:56 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Signalman

I belive in the heat island effect of big liberal cities is what is screwing with the climate, does that mean I only get Probation?

/s


20 posted on 04/07/2015 9:35:22 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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