Certainly AGW promoters have wasted no effort in calling for legal
actions against skeptics.
Not exact matches
Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate
skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue
against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»
If
skeptics are committing «crimes
against humanity» all
actions are legitimate.
As they tend to do from time to time in an effort to distract from the climate science consensus, a group of scientists who are also climate «
skeptics» have published an opinion - editorial (op - ed), trying to make the case
against taking
action to address climate change.
Lewandowsky falsely linked climate
skeptics to moon landing hoaxism, and free marketeers to rejection of beliefs they overwhelmingly endorsed, so I guess an enterprising lawyer could think about a class
action civil suit for libel (I'm not sure if there's ever been a class
action libel
action),
against the researchers and the journal.
And that enviro - activists» collective accusation
against skeptic climate scientists might backfire under tough scrutiny, potentially exposing them — Shabecoff, Gelbspan, Naomi Oreskes, «Greenpeace USA née Ozone
Action,» and Al Gore — as people engaging in the kind of racketeering action they claim is being done by the fossil fuel comp
Action,» and Al Gore — as people engaging in the kind of racketeering
action they claim is being done by the fossil fuel comp
action they claim is being done by the fossil fuel companies?
The AMS joins a cast of individual scientists who have spoken out
against the inquiry, including several who are strong advocates for climate
action and have been highly critical of
skeptics:
On September 1, 2015, Jagadish Shukla, president of the tax - exempt Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES), who is also a climate professor at George Mason University, led a group of 20 academics calling for RICO
action against all climate
skeptics, their organizations and fossil fuel companies.
Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted
skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry» accusation
against skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone
Action.
The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an accusation phrase
against skeptic scientists that was made famous by anti-
skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone
Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the accusation that
skeptic scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.
Jon wrote a very interesting paper in which he argued that even if the
skeptic narratives are correct, the old narratives I was telling wasn't an argument
against climate
action.
And as I've noted on several times, Ozone
Action and Ross Gelbspan sure appear to be the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry corruption accusation
against skeptic climate scientists.