Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Senator Whitehouse has a conspiracy theory, about why people aren’t embracing skyrocketing energy prices and a substantially degraded quality of life.
According to Whitehouse;
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.
Their activities are often compared to those of Big Tobacco denying the health dangers of smoking. Big Tobacco’s denial scheme was ultimately found by a federal judge to have amounted to a racketeering enterprise.
The Big Tobacco playbook looked something like this: (1) pay scientists to produce studies defending your product; (2) develop an intricate web of PR experts and front groups to spread doubt about the real science; (3) relentlessly attack your opponents.
Thankfully, the government had a playbook, too: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. In 1999, the Justice Department filed a civil RICO lawsuit against the major tobacco companies and their associated industry groups, alleging that the companies “engaged in and executed — and continue to engage in and execute — a massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public, including consumers of cigarettes, in violation of RICO.”
Senator Whitehouse doesn’t understand that there is no “denier” conspiracy.
Ordinary people like myself, are motivated to act because we are fed up with failed climate models being paraded as settled facts. We are fed up with our kids being force fed messages of hopelessness and despair, when they should be learning about the wonders of science. We are fed up with endless schoolyard bullying tactics, the gratuitous name calling, the utterly disproportionate legal threats, and wild, baseless accusations, being used to harass anyone who dares to question the credibility of the self appointed prophets of thermageddon.
Climategate email 1212063122.txt
>> Mike,
> Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
> Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
>
> Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t
> have his new email address.
>
> We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
>
> I see that CA claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature
> paper!!
>
> Cheers
> Phil
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Well said Anthony. Senator Whitehouse needs to realise the tobacco analogy doesn’t remotely fit the bill. For one thing every single person in the Western world is benefiting from the cheap energy provided by fossil fuels. Senator Whitehouse included. There’s no us and them, there’s just us.
Well said Eric too 🙂
Yes, Eric, good post thanks. Perhaps RICO should be used against the global warming conspirators identified in the climate gate emails.
We’ve been hearing about this misinformation campaign for many years. The claim has always been that it is “well documented”. Since no one has ever produced the alleged documents, I ask the senator to do so. I want to see them. These documents would influence my opinion dramatically… as does their absence.
Shouldn’t we go on the counter offensive by decrying The War On Plant Food? And the The War On Plants.
“Senator Whitehouse is part of the War On Plants.”
“Senator Whitehouse is part of the War On Plant Food.”
The whole AGW effort is a war on dark skinned people and the development of their resources and countries.
It should just be the war on food. We eat plants and we eat animals that eat plants. A war on plants is a war on food.
Read the next post too. Inherently Stable System. More heat = more thunderstorms. So we add CO2, and add H2O and the earth adds heat naturally. Sounds like a green eutopia. Why are the left opposed to fossil fuels? If their theory was right, we should be recycling more C into the atmosphere, not less. Burning any C is recycling by the way, just a longer cycle.
[snip – While this post was amusing and did not in any way imply any threat to anyone, I am, nonethelhess, exercising my prerogative. ~ Evan]
Humor Hog
Well, if you consider that tobacco users and companies are some of the most discriminated against, highly-taxed (though perhaps not so much in America), hounded, despised, perpetually legislated against and the subject of officially-sanctioned derision…maybe some tobacco analogies are apt.
Didn’t Gore make his money in tobacco? Maybe he simply moved on into Climate Change. Applying the tactics that worked for tobacco to help the democrat’s promote climate change.
Doesn’t the climate change textbook start with accusing you enemies of using the same tactics as you are using? Like the cheating husband that suspects the wife. He sees everyone else through his own actions.
Doesn’t denial start with denying that climate changes naturally? That like the tides, no man can stop natural climate change. Explain the little ice age, of the many warm periods prior. Climate science cannot. Yet it claims to know the cause of today’s warming. Salem witch trials, 2015 version.
Al Gore plowed tobacco with mules -or was it poodles? I can’t remember…
There are taxes on tobacco, paid to governments, to pay politicians like Senator Whitehouse …. to be consistent, he should work ‘pro bono’ for the common good and eschew all pension benefits.
Gore, and his family, made money on tobacco, oil and coal (Oxy).
Some analogies may be apt, but to me, it’s like the pimp (big government) scolding the prostitute (big tobacco) for selling her services to the John. Here in Canada, we get the argument that smokers cost the public health care system money. Not so. From a strictly economic viewpoint, smoking should be subsidized, not taxed. If everybody in Canada stopped smoking tomorrow, governments would immediately be deprived of $8 billion annually in direct taxes. A study by the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health found (using a model, I admit) that preventing smoking saves lives, but it doesn’t save money. In fact, the lifetime healthcare costs of thin, healthy people are higher than those of the obese and smokers. We may find to our surprise that global warming also costs less than the status quo.
This does fit the bill:
The Big
TobaccoClimate playbook lookeds something like this: (1) pay scientists to produce studies defending your product; (2) develop an intricate web of PR experts and front groups to spread doubt aboutthe real scienceskepticism; (3) relentlessly attack your opponents.Worth noting that this is the same model used by the recent Big Chocolate satire/expose that journalist fellow did.
The Big Climate Change playbook looks something like this: (1) pay scientists to produce studies defending your theory; (2) develop an intricate web of PR experts and front groups to spread doubt about the real science; (3) relentlessly attack your opponents.
Obviously it’s better in stereo
Guys like Whitehouse dont care about the truth. Their mission is so important, their ego so large, that they could care less as to how their goal is achieved. And like the spoiled children they are, they seek to rig the game so no one else can play unless they win. The sad thing to me personally is that this is the state where I was born, and the people are so complacent there, they elect someone who obviously knows nothing about the extremes that Rhode Island has gone through, like the 1938 hurricane and Carol. So if the tobacco analogy, or any other can smear an opponent that he will refuse to debate one on one in the open, he lets it fly. This is not about truth, if it was alot of these people would be nowhere near the reigns of so called leadership
The use of rogue agency regulation and color of law will eventually result in no truth getting out and thus any opinion that is contrary puts you in a jail.
I believe the Senator just called me a baby killing Nazi, but i’m not sure.
Hey Joe, speaking of ego, it would seem that the Home State of your birth, doesn’t even rise to the level of needing any more than one thermometer to define the climate of that State.
According to Dr Hansen you only need one thermometer for each 1200 km to measure the climate, so actually, Rhode Island could get by with NO thermometers, and just adopt the Temperature of Manhattan as their official State Temperature.
Well Joe, besides giving rise to you (our thanks for that) Rhode Island did manage to operate the America’s Cup yacht races for the New York Yacht Club or much of its first 134 years of history. (Before those pesky Australians came along.)
g
PS Could there possibly be any more bizarre oxymoron, than the words “global climate.”
The global climate temperature is somewhere between about -94 deg C and about +60 deg. C (maybe even more). So why are we concerned about one or two deg. C ??
I believe that “climate” is an entirely local phenomenon; not global.
Why do people keep saying “they could care less”? The correct expression is “they COULDN’T care less”. i.e., they care so little that they couldn’t care less.
Albert writes: “Why do people keep saying ‘they could care less’?”
Here’s good summary:
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-does-i-could-care-less-mean.htm
I’m old enough to remember when the apocopic version began being used in the 1960s and it still irritates me a little bit.
So a senator from the village of Rhode Island is the Spokesperson for the entire USA.
Let’s see, the Veep State of Delaware can fit in 15 different non overlapping places in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, But Whitehead’s little burg can be put in 24.75 different non overlapping places in the ANWAR of Alaska.
So Pluto got demoted from planethood. Isn’t it about time that Rhode Island got a similar promotion.
Is Rhode Island bigger than Catalina Island Out in the Santa Barbara Channel Islands off California ??
Your point seems misplaced. Both Delaware and Rhode Island have larger populations than Alaska. Dirt don’t vote.
@opluso “Dirt don’t vote”
you’ve not been to Chicago in November apparently
“”””””…..
opluso
June 5, 2015 at 5:59 am
Your point seems misplaced. Both Delaware and Rhode Island have larger populations than Alaska. …..”””””
So far as I know, there is no data base of climate information measured on people. People seem to maintain a constant 98.6 deg. F Temperature regardless of their CO2 output.
I just watched Senator Whitehouse take part in a senate committee hearing on the legality of the IRS tax on people who don’t buy Obamacare Insurance, and the legality of federal government subsidies for millions of people that the law says clearly are not qualified to receive those subsidies.
So Whitehouse was bragging about how well the obamacare law is working in his state of Rhode Island (1212 square miles). He was bragging that so far 500 businesses have signed up their employees for his State’s version of Obamacare.
I wonder if Senator Whitehouse is aware that we have more than 500 businesses by far, just in downtown Sunnyvale California.
Yes it sounds like a rip roaring success Senator Whitehouse.
I say “Bring it on”, Mr. Whitehouse. I’d love to see the CAGW establishment (who really DO have a conspiracy going) exposed for what they are. It isn’t the “Deniers” who should be held accountable for violating the public trust. No, it’s the rent seekers that distort data and logic regarding “climate change” that should be examined and found guilty.
Quite so. The good thing about the far Left is that they leave behind club to beat themselves with. In Australia, they have 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. (But their affiliated terrorist organisations like Hamas – beloved of the Greens, who speak at rallies where the Black Standard and yellow flags wave proudly – can’t help but insult / offend pretty much every other race in the country.)
In the US you have RICO. And a smoking gun thousands of pages long. Big Government funding Big Green, who then pull stunts like harassment of scientists Soon and others – supported by the swivel-eyed ecoloons in academia and elsewhere. I would LOVE to see RICO brought onto the playing field. Because I know who will be wearing it. Den!@rs are not the ones taking corrupt payments and using fraudulent means.
Let’s see. If the Scientists concluding AGW are taking corrupt payments, and the skeptics are the new Falileos…pure as the driven snow…why is it that the following all accept the findings f those corrupt (sarc)
Ignore previous post..a mistake
“..Will the letter “D”
Be used to signify
That you’ve dangerous free opinions,
That you still won’t comply?
A “D” daubed on your house,
A “D” badge on your coat,
No employment available,
Not allowed to vote….”
From Environmental Nazi’s http://wp.me/p3KQlH-Mz
Thought Green might be a good color for the letter “D”, but lets stick with tradition and just make it yellow.
Big yellow letter “D”.
Besides, the color Green is needed by the Green Shirts.
Sen. Whitehouse can oversee the whole program.
He can be the new Oberster Sturmabteilung.
I’ve seen this some where before …
Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
So, the blue pill allows you to believe whatever you want to believe.
Sorry. The “D” is the letter after Senator Whitehouse. As long as it means “Democrat” it will never be criticized.
I always thought it meant “dummy”.
And to really do it right, it means “dummy” as said by Redd Foxx (comedian). He could use that word and really make it mean something.
You’re talking Democrat; right ??
Now there’s a truly racketeering organization for you. Remember what Nancy Pelosi said; we have to pass this fraud to find out what’s in it.
What was in it, turned out to be exactly what Sarah Palin said was in it, and she knew, because she could see the bill from her front window.
So Whitehouse should be careful about throwing around the word RICO; his group are steeped in it.
Could also mean you’re a vampire hunter, sworn to defend the public from those who would drain their lifeblood.
When will the use the RICO law against ummm i don’t know the UN! or the climate change warmists as a whole?
I am called a denier because:
* I have the audacity to demand scientists follow the scientific method.
* I have the audacity to demand that those who tell me to live sustainably first do so themselves.
* I have the audacity to look at weather history to see if such events occurred in the past.
* I have the audacity to think for myself.
why is it that politicians that live high on the hog are always telling us to live sustainable? Are they not simply telling us to take a smaller piece of the pie, so that they can have a bigger piece for themselves? Are they not simply gluttons and hypocrites, telling us to do what they would never?
They are that… gluttons and hypocrites. And they *all* are that… even the few who publicly proclaim views that seem to coincide with sense and reason. It’s all show; the next election is the goal.
To quote Animal Farm “We are all created equal…But some of us are more equal.”
https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/019/
Drag cursor all the way over to the right, note location.
That’s a lot of audacity. Obviously we’ll need to sew a green hockeystick onto your clothing, readily visible, so that people can know you’re an audacious person.
That last one’s the real crime, alex. How dare you? ;-p
So if I understand this correctly, using RICO would mean a court case where the warmists would have to use something they know little about – facts – to prove their case. Whitehouse obviously didn’t get the memo that said ‘don’t whatever you do get involved in a court case where we would have to prove things’.
Dear Senator Whitehouse,
How is the climate supposedly changing that has you in such an alarmed state?
Yours very respectfully,
RICO Candidate
Senator Whitehouse would have fit right in with Tailgunner Joe McCarthy. Scratch the surface of a true believer and find a mental midget believing in magical thinking and calling for thought crimes.
In the real world a “crime” has to take place for RICO to apply.
Last time I checked, even if the kook’s ridiculous conspiracy were true, offering competing ideas regarding a matter of public interest is not a crime.
I think Woody Allen’s reply to Sen. Joe McCarthy in “The Front” is quite appropriate as a reply to Sen. Whitehouse:
Trouble is Tailgunner Joe was right. There were communists in high places in government.
And, there still are, and growing.
Leonard Lane – June 4, 2015 at 6:15 am
There are suspicions that it goes all the way to the top.
It’s instructive here to note that Joe’s claims were borne out as fact by the march of time. The problem was that his method was lacking when he made the claims. People simply couldn’t replicate the process involved. They could not discover for themselves the correctness of his claims. And while he ended up being right, he may not have had any process at all himself. It is that lack of process, or the lack of presentation of it, that we remember him for.
This is not dissimilar to the Climate Change fiasco. We have a lot of pronouncements of what is or will be — but there’s very little in the way of credible process to derive the conclusions. If, 50 years from now, the climate warms an appropriate amount, we’d be as amiss in stating “Mann was right” — and for the same reasons — as stating “Joe was right.”
Yes there were commies. But they failed. We won the Cold War. The USSR disappeared. Do we have failed commies running things, and trying to impose loser ideas and policies? Yes. That is not what McCarthy was working on. Even with Stalin getting traitors to give him the bomb he was still the loser.
Focus on the real threats: Idiocratic policies wankers by the likes of Whitehouse and Obama who are cowards, echo chambers, ill-liberal, and are most assuredly not at all interested in the proletariat revolution. They and their cronies are in it to make lots and lots of money for themselves.
Woody Allen’s response to the committee was perfect, and we should adopt it as our answer to the pathetic climate kooks who are too ignorant, cowardly and lazy to actually think about, much less defend, their climate obsession.
Senator Whitehouse, you are too insipid to offer a defense, much less a rational explanation of your ridiculous apocalyptic claptrap. Go f{}ck yourself for even thinking you should be able to make it illegal to challenge your pathetic ideas.
Did we win? Our government, educational system, news, and entertainment is largely completely under the control of statists who hate freedom and capitalism. Whole generations of Americans have been brainwashed, and our values and way of life are showing signs of crumbling from a 70 year internal assault. It may have taken generations, but their plan to erode from within appears to be largely working. It may not be long before we revisit McCarthy as a would-be hero who was ignored by his peers.
@ur momisugly Richard Drake: Oh I don’t know, it looks pretty familiar to me 😉
The Big Green playbook looks exactly like this: (1) pay scientists to produce studies promoting your beliefs; (2) develop an intricate web of PR experts and front groups to spread belief about the faux science; (3) relentlessly attack your opponents.
You saw it too.
The Big Tobacco playbook looked something like this: (1) pay scientists to produce studies defending your product; (2) develop an intricate web of PR experts and front groups to spread doubt about the real science; (3) relentlessly attack your opponents.
Whitey needs to look in the mirror.
1) pay scientists to produce studies – See the NOAA purposefully using computer code (algorithms [2]) to lower historic temperatures to promote present day temperatures as the warmest on record. – See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2015/06/01/bombshell-comprehensive-analysis-reveals-noaa-wrongfully-applying-master-algorithm-to-whitewash-temperature-history/#sthash.IddWOu0V.dpuf
2) web of PR experts and front groups – Lew and Cook and Mann and Algore come to mind. Also the caption under the picture at the WashCompost – The dome of the U.S. Capitol is seen behind the emissions, and a smokestack, from the coal-burning Capitol Power Plant, in Washington, D.C., March 10, 2014. Since it would take a massive inversion to get smoke from the stack to ground level at the base, what is pictured is steam, the other GHG. Get the media on your side.
3) relentlessly attack your opponents.- The Tea Party Patriots group has accused Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in a formal complaint of breaking ethics rules by pressuring the administration to target conservative groups engaged in political activities. She argues the senator’s “inflammatory attacks” against conservative groups appear to constitute “improper conduct which may reflect upon the Senate,” citing the Senate’s ethics manual.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/207946-tea-party-hits-whitehouse-on-ethics
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) – WAPO article.
One scientist who consistently published papers downplaying the role of carbon emissions in climate change, Willie Soon, reportedly received more than half of his funding from oil and electric utility interests: more than $1.2 million.
Wow, I just read the how NOAA has modified the measured data from the past and changed it to match the political platform of Obama Administration. It’s like NOAA knows not the bite the hand that feeds them billions of budget dollars. However, it seems to me that the scientific method is being trashed in the process. Fortunately, we have satellite and weather balloon data that can not be significantly modified, and this data is the most accurate (but only starts in the 1970’s) and both indicate that CO2 plays only a minor role in global temperatures.
I think a better comparison of the Climate Change Theory than tobacco is how the Theory of Plate Tectonics has gone from very few to most every scientist believing that it is true within my lifetime. It was done by collecting valid data that was in disagreement with the accepted theory. The theory got changed, not the valid data. In the end, let’s hope that the scientific method rules get applied to climate change theories and get the truthful nonpolitical conclusion, but unfortunately trillions of dollars would be wasted before reaching this verdict decades from now.
The scientists employed in free market think tanks have produced only a tiny percentage of the studies cited in the NIPCC Report. The money links that exist for scientists in academia (such as Lindzen’s consulting fee decades ago) are pretty tenuous.
As for Whitehorses’s fantasy that “Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people …”, where are the Contrarian billboards? Advertisements? Those would be a part of any “massive campaign” to persuade “the American people.” Where are the articles in the bought-off media that trumpets the studies by the paid-for scientists? They are rare–95% of the media won’t touch them–look at the way Climategate was not reported.
For more in this vein, see my WUWT guest-thread, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/16/notes-from-skull-island-why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized/
I recently had a so called scientist tell me that since Heartland is run by a lawyer, therefor none of the science they produce is worth looking at.
Alan…
You took my comment…I agree. The alarmist tactics are exactly what he is asserting skeptics do. They massively fund their agenda through government funded research, the IPCC, and university grants.
Then they use the media to hype their alarmist scare scenarios in opposition to all common sense and observation.
Then attack those that disagree as deniers and threaten legal actions to squelch any real debate of the facts.
I do sometimes wonder just how smart some of these people, not to see they could be called out on their statements about denial. Personally I have never denied “climate”, or that it “changes”. I have a “friend” on Facebook who regularly posts greeny statements & alleged science, I just post something from here, BH, of The Resilient Earth, & he gets all uppety with it, & descends into ad homs because I am reading the “wrong” websites!
It’s called Projection Disorder
Projection disorder with a large dash of noble cause corruption thrown in.
They believe that they are saving the world, therefore they are free to use any tactic to achieve their goal.
Do I detect the acrid odor of Saul Alinski in the Green SA?
+1 I immediately thought the very same, oh well I guess that’s what you can do when you claim the “moral high ground”…..lmao, we have to act now…we’re all doomed!
There is a rather lengthy list of experts, scientists, researchers and authors whose careers and lives have been drastically harmed by the in team climate mafia.
There is no lengthy list of climate alarmists whose careers and livelihoods have been seriously impaired by skeptics.
Yes! Invoke RICO, investigate the alarmist collusion.
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Fossil fuel companiesThe US government and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.”—————–
Fixed that for you, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
Although in fairness to the original words of Sen. Whitehouse, many of the deep pockets funding the climate alarmist/warmist agenda are fossil fuel companies, like BP.
Yes. Psychological “projection” in all its glory. They see within others what within themselves is true. “When you’re in the mud all you see is mud.
They see within others what within themselves is true.
That’s it. Thieves think everyone steals. Liars believe everyone is a liar. ‘Projection’ is imputing your own faults onto others. This article shows Whitehouse’s projection.
There’s this thing about accusations. The first one to make a specific accusation, or the first one to accuse generally, gains the most belief from passers by. It’s a psychological quirk that shouldn’t be, but is.
Even if big oil was funding massive amounts of climate studies and misinformation(they are not) when did to public agree that big corporations are always guilty of fraud of unethical practices regardless of any facts or real science? Then when you question government funded science you are questioning the Lord himself?
Here’s just one example of fossil fuel industry funding of questionable climate “awareness”:
http://science.time.com/2012/02/02/exclusive-how-the-sierra-club-took-millions-from-the-natural-gas-industry-and-why-they-stopped/
Interesting line in the linked article: “The news of the gas industry donation—which had been kept *anonymous until now, as many of Club’s gifts from individuals and corporations are*—is particularly worrisome for the Sierra Club.” Apparently they want to criticize others’ funding sources without revealing their own.
Government funded science towing the Party Line. The Heath Monkey Studies. He asphyxiated the monkeys.
Okay, this is a great real life demonstration of McCarthyism, up close and personal.
The trouble with that is that there were Communists in government. Stalinist is a better term.
Statist is even a better term.
I know some better terms, but I would get banned if I used them.
McCarthyism is a great misnomer. If you look at the Congressional investigations after the uproar and at the KGB information released after the fall of the Soviet Union, you will see shy McCarthy had to be stopped. He was declaring the truth. All of this has been published in comments on WUWT before.
About that…
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2007-11-07.html
Ann’s take on this is worth reading, even if you’re on the left.
I assume the tosspot is just playing to his core vote, but I’m sure the prospect of RICO will really alarm the alarmists
Seeing as how RICO was implemented to eliminate organized crime, I’d say RICO’s success rate rivals the success rate of the IPCC models.
Trusting the IPCC to do science is much like asking the US Congress to certify virginity
These are robots. All we have to do is find the “off” button and push it.
Whitehouse is just getting the ‘lie’ out in public. An old and favorite propaganda tool.
And Whitehouse (heh) is part of the war on plant food.
Yes, Please let me have my day in court!
What then is this “Carbon Pollution”?
A sinister, evil collusion?
CO2, it is clean,
Makes for growth, makes it green,
A transfer of wealth, a solution.
Let me first state I am serious about this Limerick. It is not even tongue in cheek. I am an engineer by training and look at the earth as a “living” organism that responds to changes in its environment.
First, the increase in CO2 concentration itself and how nature responds to it.
Second, the effect it has on the earth’s temperature and all its consequences, and finally
Third, the acidification of the oceans.
http://lenbilen.com/2014/02/22/co2-the-life-giving-gas-not-carbon-pollution-a-limerick-and-explanation/
Wow a Senator, who attacks free speech, make outlandish claims in public,then sit back and watch it unfold.
Why is it that we as humans ALWAYS elect the most stupid amongst us to form policy ? Is there any politician out there who can detect the difference between a sledge hammer and a tack hammer ?
Answer a tack hammer is used to drive bridge spikes !
Because the smart ones are too smart to put up with the s&&t you have to take in order to get elected to office in the first place.
but there is a consensus that nobody was able to poke holes in at all..totally valid…the 97%
There are no climate change deniers except those who are paid for shills. Every public figure of science that has a skeptical view is a shill and a crook. I don’t think people are buying this anymore. One only has to do some very basic research to laugh at this. it’s amazing every warmists climate scientist i see in an interview or mentioned n a news article seems to be form the same basic group of public relation scientists like gavin schmidt or hansen. Either that or actor scientists like Bill Nye or Degrasse. It seems to be all politics, phony consensus, bullying and shaming tactics. if a basic fact comes up that a warmists can’t refute they will always resort to these cowardly tactics..I never hear much science discussed by warmists.
He disgraces himself and the institution. He employs every tactic that he accuses skeptics of using. He is beyond the reach of judicial action and he knows it. Yet he threatens judicial action on the less powerful.
Tyranny.
And he’s beyond the wrath of the voters, being a Democrat from a deep blue state controlled by that party since 1937. Until this year when the law finally changed, voters could, and did, vote straight party line. Democrats occupy over 90% of the legislative seats and are cozy with the unions. Idiots like Whitehouse act with impunity and the majority of voters are too benighted to know what’s happening to them or are connected to the ruling class. Sadly, America becomes more like RI every day.
A denier is someone who doesn’t believe that the climate models match the global temperature record. The global temperature record agrees with the laws of physics (unless it was manipulated) and so the models don’t. That means the models are deceptive (and scientifically illegal) and anyone using them to support the hypothesis of climate change is being misleading. Why would they do that?
These are folks in government positions of enormous power having wet dreams over criminalizing “wrong” ideas and opinions.
And guess who gets to decide which ones are “wrong”.
Guess who? Left-leaning Google.
https://www.intellihub.com/google-thought-police-rank-websites-based-truth/