Criminalizing Global Warming Dissent?

Ken McCracken • August 16, 2007

Anthropogenic global warming is a scientific hypothesis, not an article of religious or ideological dogma. Skepticism and doubt are entirely appropriate in the realm of science, in which truth is determined by evidence, experimentation, and observation, not by consensus or revelation. Yet when it comes to global warming, dissent is treated as heresy — as a pernicious belief whose exponents must be shamed, shunned, or silenced.
Newsweek is hardly the only offender. At the Live Earth concert in New Jersey last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced climate-change skeptics as “corporate toadies” for “villainous” enemies of America and the human race. “This is treason,” he shouted, “and we need to start treating them now as traitors.”
Some environmentalists and commentators have suggested that global-warming “denial” be made a crime, much as Holocaust denial is in some countries. Others have proposed that climate-change dissidents be prosecuted in Nuremberg-style trials. The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen has suggested that television meteorologists be stripped of their American Meteorological Society certification if they dare to question predictions of catastrophic global warming.

Personally, I don’t think holocaust denial should be criminalized either. It’s stupid and completely detached from reality (sort of like global warming zealotry!), but free speech means free speech.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Freedom Of Speech, Politics

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If we let nuts like RFK determine how our lives can be lived, can the executions for heterodoxy be far behind?
gonzo

if one day having an exotic car collection is wrong… i don’t wanna be right.
Mickey

Brown shirt left wing global warming nazis.

NO SOY FOR YOU!
Gregory

And I’ve seen that if you don’t belive George Bush blew up the World Trade Center you should be hung.
Mickey

wetback

Don’t take the comment to literal. I was making a joke.

Post modern leftism of the far left fringe share philosophical and psychological paralells to that of the nazis, who were also leftists BTW. But you are half right, calling Bush a nazi is pretty dumb.

Todays leftist is not the classical liberal of the 60′s. The Left has gone from supporting liberal ideologies that were inclusive and universal, to supporting ideologies that are fascist. There is no way any observer can come to any other conclusion. A lot of the moral capital earned by Liberalism, has been squandered by Leftists in the support of causes that are clearly bankrupt and by ignoring causes that go begging.

I could go on and on and on but that would be the equivalent of debating the merits of the wheel.
WETBACK

Calling a lefty a Nazi is just as dumb as calling Bush a Nazi, In my opinion of course.
robert108

“This is treason,” he shouted, “and we need to start treating them now as traitors.”

Typical totalitarianism; criminalizing a diversity of opinion.

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