Posted on 03/12/2007 7:12:58 PM PDT by Reform Canada
Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'
By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:24am GMT 11/03/2007
Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.
They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions.
Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.
One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further global warming.
"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor.
"I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal."
Last week, Professor Ball appeared in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a Channel 4 documentary in which several scientists claimed the theory of man-made global warming had become a "religion", forcing alternative explanations to be ignored.
Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - who also appeared on the documentary - recently claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges.
"Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science."
Dr Myles Allen, from Oxford University, agreed. He said: "The Green movement has hijacked the issue of climate change. It is ludicrous to suggest the only way to deal with the problem is to start micro managing everyone, which is what environmentalists seem to want to do."
Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said: "Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/ngreen211.xml
Don't most of the funds come from our government? Why hasn't the admin clamped down on the funding agencies - and demanded real science?
Thank you Al Gore. The Goebbels of the Global warming Gestapo.
Thars money in that thar global warming Schtick.
Nothin like selling carbon credits that dont exist.
Nothin like selling carbon credits that dont exist.
I'd like to start a business selling "tooth fairy futures" to
these morons.
Threatening a money-train run into universities....that'll get you trouble!
I remember the tooth fairy. he used to leave a quarter under my pillow. Now that I am 64 it costs me a couple hundred dollars to get the tooth taken out and the fairy doesnt even leave that quarter any more. What a rip.
No, according to Bell, this has been driven by bureaucrats at the UN. They took an unproven old hypothesis and used computer models to predict catastrophe. Under Bush, data collection has increased to begin the work of testing the hypothesis. but the data is not agreeing with the computer models.
The global warmers have invested a lot of time in their "global warming" scam. They are now demanding their payoff and anyone who dares expose them as the liars and scam-artists that they are will be severely punished.
The EPW issued THIS statement (click):
"EPW UPDATE: INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE FORCES GRIST MAGAZINE TO RETRACT STATEMENT CALLING FOR NUREMBERG-STYLE TRIALS FOR SKEPTICS"
The line you had in boldface, was from an article in the named envirowhack-job publication.
The page you linked goes on to present outrage from various quarters over the "NUREMBURG" comment, but notes, "It remains to be seen what Gore and Moyers will have to say about proposals to make skepticism a crime comparable to Holocaust atrocities."
Putting aside the absolute evil of such a threat, I'd venture to guess none of us will "live to see further global warming." Even if all the hype is true, we'll all be dead by the time the "global temperature" goes up 0.05 degrees.
I don't understand your point?
GRIST MAGAZINE redact the statement; but the threat is the same. The link explains it all just fine.
The UN is indeed leading the global warming scam in concert with their "Law of the Sea" agenda.
It's a way to one-worldism by asserting jurisdiction over the seas and by connection to the atmosphere. Control and regulation of the atmosphere leads to control and regulation of all human activity.
Don't take it wrong, it's not some whacky conspiracy theory but an actual theory and plan put forward by radical totalitarian enviro-nazis. Google 'Law of the Sea UN'.
You mean the same admin that has left Justice, the State Department, the CIA, shot through with 1000's of Clintonoid moles and traitors? That admin? Geez. I dunno.
Algore wants to be the Kommisar of Klimate. Stinking nutty rich kid intellectually in way over his head.
Did you see that a few days before this report on global warming came out there was a scandal about a couple of Africans associated with it who abscounded just in time?
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