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.
Read More: http://gawker.com/arrest-climate-change-deniers-1553719888
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.
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Green policies in Germany beginning to have an effect.
http://notrickszone.com/2015/04/07/easter-blackout-cologne-area-and-phantasia-amusement-park-lose-power-3-times-in-24-hours/#sthash.RkvUvHWU.dpbs
German greens will be in denial
Tying two WUWT posts from today together, it would be humorous to see Freeman Dyson present himself to Adam Weinstein for arrest.
Mr. Weinstein better get busy, also on the list to be arrested is Andrew Weaver, who not only (allegedly) denies CO2 causes current severe weather, he sues (and wins) for libel if the Nat’l Post says otherwise. Somebody better call his office.
If anyone is killing people today it is the AGW fanatics blocking investment in coal powered electricity generation in Africa, freezing old people via fuel poverty and damaging the health of residents near wind farms with noise.
If anyone is killing people today it is the AGW fanatics blocking investment in coal powered electricity generation in Africa, freezing old people via fuel poverty and damaging the health of residents near wind farms with noise.
Yet another control freak, authoritarian, smarter than the rest of us a&@hole.
Fear-mongering over global warming has taken lives. A 7-month-old baby survived alone for three days with a bullet wound in its chest beside the bodies of its parents and brother, who died in an apparent suicide pact brought on by the couple’s terror of global warming:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=352991&CategoryId=14093
CAGW is, and always will be, a leftist tool to increase government power, control and funding to leftist regimes.
A strong case can be made that CAGW is the central component behind: the implementation of Agenda 21, and also as a means to conduct wealth redistribution on a global scale. CO2 taxes and carbon credits were also supposed to be the primary source of funding for a world government organization.
As the CAGW hypothesis continues its rapid collapse, leftists are becoming increasing desperate to push through as much of their agenda as possible before CAGW is laughed and eye-rolled into obscurity.
Since the science and empirical evidence are making CAGW completely untenable, the only means available to leftists to keep this failed hypothesis alive is to create an atmosphere of fear and hate against those trying to expose the absurdity and failure of CAGW as a means of censoring the truth.
The good news is that it’s far too late such silly tactics to work and the Internet is far too big to control.
A recent Gallop poll shows that only 13% of conservatives still believe CAGW is a problem and other polls put CAGW dead last in ranked social and economic issues, which means CAGW is already too discredited to revived.
Just let leftists make fools of themselves for calling for death, jail and reeducation camps to rstional humans that don’t think CAGW is threat to the planet.
The effective intellectual antidote against this old** Weinstein venom is to laugh at him while applying extreme ridicule with prejudice***.
** old . . . the link in Eric Worrall’s lead post is to a March 2014 article by Adam Weinstein online article at the Gawker site.
*** I refer to ‘with prejudice’ only in the sense that Weinstein has, with his old article, shown his intellectual bankruptcy so his future intellectual claims should be treated as intellectually damaged goods as a default setting by cautious thinkers.
DISCLAIMER: I do not imply in any way any reference to the old CIA term ‘with extreme prejudice’.
John
Recently ‘Pointman’ stated on his blog (of the same name) that (I paraphrase) ‘alarmists had lost the climate argument and their reaction on the way down was not going to be pretty’.
This is probably the sort of thing he meant.
Circle-jerk of philosophers. No happy endings there.
True believers condemn you to hell for an eternity, fundamentalists try to kill you, sociopaths try to find legal ways to kill you.
I correct myself, circle-jerk of sociopaths. Still no happy endings though.
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
The “authoritarian Left,” Gaea Division, strikes again.
It saddens me greatly that, when I read the ludicrous bile spewed by the warmistas, even I am consumed with rage against the hypocrisy and double standards. It should not be like this.
Adam,
As they say south of the border… X-L-N-T!
In these climate wars, perhaps activist who refuse to debate could be court-martialed for desertion.
New Inquisition?
So everyone who worked for or spoke in favor of the banning of DDT should be charged with the murder of 30 million Africans? This is not just an unverifiable hypothesis, this is history with cause and effect established.
Let the public executions begin!!
Insights on DDT ban by Patrick Moore
Stewart,
I have attached the short section on DDT from my upcoming book ”Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout”. Of course Monbiot is quibbling with the word “worldwide” and demanding to know what ”international instrument” was involved. It was actually a “de facto” worldwide ban, adopted nationally by all the industrialized nations but most importantly included in the policies of WHO and USAID. Developing countries were refused international assistance by these agencies unless they banned DDT. Thus the skyrocketing of malaria in Africa. Directly attributable to “anti-DDT campaigners’. It was 2004 when WWF and Greenpeace finally relented, after 4 years of negotiation of the Stockholm Convention, and then after considerable shaming and brow-beating. Now they claim to have been for it all along.
Cheers, Patrick Moore
The intolerant ramblings of fanatics are easily mistaken for the blustering of fools until the day the fools gain real power and make good on their psychotic threats.
Thanks, Eric. It’s good to feel noticed, even when it is in a negative way.
Nature has them in a tight spot.
Hmmmm – fascists really do repeat history, don’t they?
Yes, and we skeptics/climate realists know who they are.
Weinstein’s article makes one ask a question. Why are supporters (like Weinstein) of gov’t endorsed climate change exaggerations motivated to advocate silencing by gov’t force those who have successfully used independent critical applied reasoning to expose the climate change exaggerations?
One is inclined to answer something like ‘Well, duh.’
I find a more indirect line of thought as a possible way to answer my above question. It is possible the answer for their motivation for advocating forced silence is that they have a fundamental hatred of all independent critical applied reasoning.
John
I myself am into the track to CO2 hoax was a hoax – as many earn Multum with pennies on.
Right out of the King James version of fundamentalist CAGW.
From 1 John, Chapter 2 verse 22:
“Who is a liar but he that denieth CAGW? He is antichrist, that denieth CAGW”
Before they start picking us off one by one, lets all identify ourselves clearly and openly as defiant skeptics. Let’s call their bluff, somehow. But how?
The hypocrisy of this is that many so-called ‘green’ activities are being allowed to take place regardless of their being illegal:
Picketing power stations.
Piracy on oilrigs. (OK, the Russians have a bit more sense than us)
Illegal telesales calls selling solar panels. (Now THE No1 nuisance call source)
Cyclists riding on pavements, shooting red lights etc.
Government ministers with conflicting business interests. (Yeo, Davey, etc)
If anyone else did these things they’d be fined, ticketed, sacked or in some cases locked up.