Heartland Institute's digital billboards make bombastic comparisons

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Kinda like climate zealots calling anyone that questions the science criminals and equivalent to holocaust deniers?
 
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lawgator1 said:
I think that's a little exaggerated ....
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you don't think this has happened? See Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe for the holocaust comparison. Hell, some of these people have called for war criminal charges against "deniers".

Both the OP and these examples are ridiculous and show that it's about much more than scientific debate.
 
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I don't think it's that far-fetched. I'm thoroughly convinced Rachel Carson's environmental book Silent Spring is responsible for millions of deaths in the developing world because DDT got banned. IMO, anybody informed, and with half a brain would draw that conclusion.
 
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Oooh, I can play, too.

Dwight D. Eisenhower thought a competent national highway system was necessary for military/emergency preparedness. He got the ball rolling for the Interstate Highway System.

Hitler realized the importance of a highway system for his nation's infrastructure. He built the Autobahn.

Eisenhower = Hitler?
 
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volinbham said:
you don't think this has happened? See Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe for the holocaust comparison. Hell, some of these people have called for war criminal charges against "deniers".

Both the OP and these examples are ridiculous and show that it's about much more than scientific debate.
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Who is saying that? Who are "these people"?

I think people who deny global warming are scientifically wrong. I think people who don't believe that man is at least a cause of the problem are wrong.

But its an area of reasonable disagreement and needs further study, and so I wouldn't call someone who takes a more conservative approach to it a criminal.

Seriously, who is calling the skeptics criminals?
 
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James Hansen has said publicly that those spreading the denial information should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity.
 
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volinbham said:
James Hansen has said publicly that those spreading the denial information should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity.
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some chick at The Weather Channel has said publicly that meteorologists who are skeptics should be stripped of their professional credentials
 
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volinbham said:
James Hansen has said publicly that those spreading the denial information should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity.
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I looked it up. Fwiw, wikipedia says more specifically that he once said that the heads of fossil fuel companies should be put on trial for spreading disinformation about climate change and its causes. He apparently likened it to tobacco company execs understating the link between cigarettes and cancer.




volinbham said:
Here's a publication editor I believe calling them war criminals and suggesting Nuremberg style trials

An excerpt from a new book by George Monbiot | Grist
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This guy doesn't seem to have much pull. At least Hansen was a significant government employee.



Meh, I don't think anyone would take these two activists seriously at this point in terms of hyperbolic rhetoric.

On the other hand, the whole debate has been so poisoned by both sides that its tough to tell who has the right data, who is asking the right questions, and who has an agenda, and who is wrong or right despite their agenda.

What a mess.
 
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My point was that climate side people made ridiculous, bombastic statements about deniers - there are numerous examples out there of which I posted 2.
 
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