Is It Getting Warmer?

This is an interesting blog discussing some of the recent conversations suggesting that people who do not “believe” that global warming is caused by humans should stand trial for the equivalent of environment crimes against humanity. I need to file this under ridiculous. There is far too much evidence that questions this position as well as too much evidence that we don’t know enough about the climate to adequately take an educated position on the matter.

How was I to know that things would get goofy on an unimagined scale? How goofy you ask? There is now a call to try Global Warming Skeptics for War Crimes. Or should that be “thought crimes”?

Grist Magazine’s staff writer David Roberts wrote, “When we’ve finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we’re in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards — some sort of climate Nuremberg.”

Pulitzer Prize winning author Ellen Goodman writes, “Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.”

…one of the largest campaigns of vilification of decent people in history — the global condemnation of a) anyone who questions global warming; or b) anyone who agrees that there is global warming but who argues that human behavior is not its primary cause; or c) anyone who agrees that there is global warming, and even agrees that human behavior is its primary cause, but does not believe that the consequences will be nearly as catastrophic as Al Gore does.

Read the blog here.

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Filed under: Getting warmer, Human fault, The ridiculous!

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