While the Anti Defamation League turns a blind eye to their own home grown hypocrisy and ugliness, Lawrence Torcello comes up with even more.
Via Delingpole at Breitbart:
Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison, a US philosophy professor argues on a website funded by the UK government.
Lawrence Torcello – assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, writes in an essay at The Conversation that climate scientists who fail to communicate the correct message about “global warming” should face trial for “criminal negligence”. (H/T Bishop Hill)
What are we to make of those behind the well documented corporate funding of global warming denial? Those who purposefully strive to make sure “inexact, incomplete and contradictory information” is given to the public? I believe we understand them correctly when we know them to be not only corrupt and deceitful, but criminally negligent in their willful disregard for human life. It is time for modern societies to interpret and update their legal systems accordingly.
More here: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/13/US-Philosophy-Professor-Jail-Denialist-Climate-Scientists-For-Criminal-Negligence
What next, numbers tattoed on our arms because we hold an opinion different from Torcello?
From their Vision and Mission page:
Integrity and Ethics: Does what it takes to deliver on commitments made to the department, college, or division and to constituency groups. Builds personal trust and relationships inside and outside the university by doing what one says he or she will do when it is promised.
Respect, Diversity and Pluralism: Provides a high level of service to fellow members of the RIT community. Treats every person with dignity. Demonstrates inclusion by incorporating diverse perspectives to plan, conduct, and/or evaluate the work of the organization, department, college, or division.
Apparently “treating people with dignity” only applies if you are part of the RIT community.
If you want to complain to the Rochester Institute of Technology about Mr. Torcello, here’s the places to do it:
http://www.rit.edu/fa/humanresources/aboutus
http://www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/Torcello.html
If you choose to lodge a complaint, be sure to be courteous and factual, we don’t need to surrender the moral high ground to anger.
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Has anyone thought of filing an ethics complaint against this idiot?
Another example of banalization of violence toward climate realists… Mind you since the Kiev coup, even totalitarian factions are the EU/Obama’s best friends… so not a surprise here.
Apparently Ethics professors don’t need any …
Ph.D in Philosophy – of course he would understand the physics of chaotic fluid/energy system that has many known and unknown variables that are unpredictable and have various levels of observational data for varying periods of time … NOT.
I wonder if he would spell “ethics” as H Y P O C R I S Y.
RE: Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison …
Sure, let’s go back to those happy days where people who thought that the Earth went around the Sun were thrown in prison. The “scientific consensus” back them said the Sun went around the Earth and we all saw that Scientific Consenses is NEVER wrong!!! // Scarasim //
Also oddly, the photo reminds me of Fred Gwynne ,,,
You can see the self-hatred so easily.
Just one thing missing from that photo – the plate with his name and number on it.
During the Reformation there where counter-reformation movements at work. One of them where the Jesuits. They tried to counter the reformation and renew the Catholic Church from within. They where only responsible to the Pope himself and local priests and bishops had no control over them. Like KGB in USSR or EPA in USA?
I feel a bit of dejavu? We are up against a Western international ideological movement that are funded by the people nationally but not accountable to the same people?
They are funded by the people but only accountable to their ideology and it’s movement?
Might be better to take a look at who funds that site and discuss it with them.
One of my interests is philosophy, my minor as an undergraduate and something that has kept me patiently thinking when others in the queue (waiting line) get riled up and jittery.
But one thing I believe all students of philosophy will agree: Philosophers as a group do not deal in “exact, complete and consistent information”.
I make the modest proposal that whatever profession association that Dr. Torcello subscribes to should enquire if he proposes to criminalize philosophical skepticism too? And which of the various kinds of philosophical skepticism would he criminalize?
I would really, seriously like to see at least one example of these “… well documented corporate funding of global warming denial”. In all honesty does anybody know of a single verifiable documented proof of corporate funding of “denialism”?
The Rochester Institute of Technology…. is that like The “Sheboygan Conservatory of Music” in Some Like it Hot?
Who does this bozo think he is? David Suzuki?
In a week when the “stem cells in lemon juice” peer reviewed paper has been shown to be nonsense what does this gentleman base his hostility to scepticism on? I can recall another of these intolerant people suggesting we should be executed for crimes against humanity. What comes next, the NSA collecting all of our IPs and rounding us up for reeducation.
All this does,along with Lewandowsky’s absurdities, is indicate just how insecure the AGW world is and how anyone can make a name (and some bucks) out of bashing the skeptics.
What a world, what a world.
As a postscript: in his article, Torcello refers to “consensus findings of seismology”. I was under the impression that seismology was a proper grown-up scientific discipline based on observation.
And presumably Torcello would be quite OK with the suggestion that climateers who have pushed the global warming agenda be prosecuted for criminal fraud when CAGW is finally accepted as bull5417? You know, fair’s fair and all that.
Anthony
Stop holding out on us. The article says;
‘I submit that this is just what is happening with the current, well documented funding of global warming denialism.’
Now, I’m not getting any funding. Bob Tisdale isn’t getting any funding. Willis isn’t getting any funding. Nor are Jo Nova,. Bishop Hill et al.
Come on, time to own up, its all coming to you isn’t it?
Just bung us $5 million a month from this ‘well documented’ funding and we will say no more about it….
(I surely don’t need ‘sarc tags’ do I?)
tonyb
From a climate realist’s viewpoint, this sort of stuff is a major plus – because it turns the voting public right off. Check out Brendan O’Neill’s observations about the phenomenon: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100262659/public-apathy-on-climate-change-is-a-cause-for-celebration-not-concern/
Nobody’s listening to these boring old farts any more. The mockery and satire has been slow to appear, but that won’t be long now. Even the inner-urban young and hip are starting to smell a rat.
Valuable comparison Santa Baby.
I would like to comment, but really cannot lower myself to address the incoherent ravings of an Assistant Professor.
Philosophy, psychology. Why is it that people working in these fringe areas think they are above actual scientists doing real science?
The likeness of Torcello and Lewandowsky is uncanny. Are they related?
Doesn’t look the sharpest knife in the drawer!
Its an attempt of some sort of Inquisition and it’s more international.
The International Watermelon Inquisition?
But one must remember that the fundamental problem here are the “gatekeepers” in the Media and mostly elsewhere?
Oh well, I suppose 3 meals a day, a roof over my head and central heating can’t be that bad, not to mention the free medical and dental treatment.
When my big-oil funding arrives, maybe I can bribe the warders to give me a bigger TV as well.