NYT's Andrew Revkin condemns his own paper's cartoon as 'the antithesis of humor': 'This cartoon is right up there with the 'pretty edgy' 2010 climate-campaign video showing a teacher blowing up students who didn’t sign on to cut their carbon footprints.' 'Self destructing sabers for climate change change deniers'

Skeptical meteorologist Anthony Watts weighs in:

‘Admittedly, this is a lame attempt at humor/satire, something we are all well familiar with applying here at WUWT. But, imagine if the tables were turned, and the cartoon depicted global warming alarmists such as Mike Mann or James Hansen in the same role? Our friends would have a collective cow. Yet, somehow, somebody at the New York Times thinks it is acceptable to suggest “dispatching” a whole class of people that hold a different viewpoint from them.’

Update: New York Times journalist Andrew Revkin had this response: “This cartoon is right up there with the ‘pretty edgy’ 2010 climate-campaign video showing a teacher blowing up students who didn’t sign on to cut their carbon footprints. Both are great attention getters, and were utterly stupid if the goal was do accomplish anything other than inflaming and dividing people on an important issue. And that would be a reprehensible goal.”

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Skeptics are reacting:

NY Times publishes cartoon about killing global warming ‘deniers’ – ‘The warmist cult, frustrated by the failure of nature to back-up their prophecies of doom, apparently is turning to homicidal fantasies, and venting them in the pages of the New York Times.’

New York Times comic strip suggests killing opponents of man-made global warming – ‘The panel shows a man arguing against global warming while a woman stabs him in the chest with an icicle.’ – Environmentalists have also called for an end to industrialized civilization while the United Nations climate chief suggested Communism is the best mechanism for dealing with so-called global warming. A post at the conservative Gateway Pundit observed that the Times is “the same rag that blamed conservatives for the Oslo massacre… but stabbing climate change deniers is appropriate.”

This is not the first time someone has suggested doing away with global warming skeptics.

Flashback 2010: NYT Cites Morano on warmist film depicting skeptical kids being blown up: ‘This (the Spattergate film) is warmists expressing their frustrations’