— United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,

October 28, 2015.



Analysis of the phrase, "Science Is Real". Science is a process, a methodology employed to determine empirical facts and laws by which we can better understand the world around us. [...] The Science Is Real statement is a transparent reference to global warming, and global warming only. The statement is meant to ridicule "climate deniers", i.e. those who "deny" the "settled science" that not only is the Earth warming at logarithmically catastrophic rates, but that mankind (particular Western man) is solely responsible. These armchair Einsteins have little time for the sciences of biology, genetics, and economics because they don't conform to the narrative. One problem with the global warming debate is that it, in its current metamorphosis, is far too politicized from which to derive much objective substance. The vast majority of partisans on both sides understand very little of the actual science, and instead rely on either conspiracy theories or internet searches for whichever article or chart is tailored to fit their particular bias.

Germany Threatens Naomi Seibt With Prison Over Climate 'Denialism'. Naomi Seibt is the non-alarmist counterpart of hysterical Greta Thunberg. Naomi brings logic and facts to the table on climate change and encourages people to think, but she is the one who German authorities want to throw in jail.

Climate Activists Step Up Calls for Imprisoning Climate Realists. Unable to win the debate in the court of public opinion, climate activists are increasingly calling for the imprisonment of climate realists. The latest example is an article in The Carbon Brief titled "How climate change misinformation spreads online." The authors, who are all University of Exeter professors, advocate fines and imprisonment for people publishing "climate misinformation" online. They justify their call for imprisonment by claiming tremendous harm from "misleading information that is created and spread with intent to deceive." That's one take, another take is that those who publish what the Left deems as "misinformation" are actually publishing what might be dubbed "inconvenient truths." The 2006 film by Al Gore of the same name is a case in point. Gore, not being particularly good at details, published a boatload of misinformation in that film, and social media responded to correct the record. In one scene Gore used an animated clip of a polar bear in danger of drowning, trying to get onto a tiny ice flow made smaller, presumably by global warming. Gore cited this as the new normal of drowning polar bears. The reality? Scientists documented one drowned polar bear at sea after an intense storm, something that hasn't been seen since.

CNN's Harwood Complains, Doctors Who Want to Reopen [are] Like Scientists Who Don't Believe in Global Warming! This morning [5/20/2020] on CNN Newsroom, CNN White House correspondent John Harwood attacked Trump allies in the GOP for looking for doctors who support reopening the economy to appear on television and advocate this position. CNN obtained this information from a leaked conference call between members of Trump's reelection campaign, discussing finding pro-Trump doctors who will go on television and advocate the need to reopen. CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciutto posed skeptically to Harwood, "Trump's reelection campaign is now recruiting doctors? Friendly doctors who serve as supporters to help Trump in that message? What are you learning?" Harwood complained how doctors who would advocate for reopening the economy are the same kind of crackpots who don't believe in global warming or think mail-in ballots lead to voter fraud. He ended his smug rant by saying this is why "educated" voters aren't supporting Trump.

Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down. A new Michael Moore-produced documentary that takes aim at the supposed hypocrisy of the green movement is "dangerous, misleading and destructive" and should be removed from public viewing, according to an assortment of climate scientists and environmental campaigners.

Green Brownshirts Strike at Michael Moore. Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore has produced a documentary called Planet of the Humans. The film (which I haven't yet seen) is basically an attack on "green" energy, i.e., wind and solar. [...] Despite his loony point of view, Moore is right about wind and solar: they are intermittent, unreliable, ridiculously expensive, and bad for the environment. That message was too much for the lavishly funded "green" establishment, which has responded by trying to shut Moore up and ban his film.

Disaster or Mass Hysteria? Depends on Who's Saying It. The left reminds us that doctors and scientists hold the monopoly on truth. Never mind that the data projections compiled by these scientists have been inaccurate or that, as we all know, science is always evolving. And yet, for those on the left, laboratories are holy chapels and scientists, priests donned in laboratory coats. To be sure, science is great and without it, we would be quite tragic. No one on the right, however, denies its importance. What they dare do, is question its assumptions and predictions. But, dare to question the legitimacy of climate change and you are denounced an apostate of all that is progressive and socially just.

The Collapse of Intellectual Standards in Science. Members of the academic and scientific communities that write about global warming, or renewable energy, cower in fear that they might say something that sounds skeptical. It is difficult to do good scientific work if you are afraid of countering the dominant conventional wisdom. The few public skeptics are ornery types with good pensions or fat bank accounts. They are usually depicted as being slightly daffy or as being in the pay of oil companies. The oil companies probably would probably be hesitant to issue a gas credit card to these skeptics, much less actually hire one for any reason. These public skeptics are the real scientists. The other are charlatans.

Climate-alarmist Group Creates Blacklist to Discredit Climate "Deniers". Nothing frightens climate alarmists more than actual scientists and other influencers who might offer an opinion that counters the narrative that carbon dioxide emitted by mankind is causing catastrophic global warming. Because of the fear of scientific nonbelievers, one climate-alarmist website has created a blacklist of scientists, politicians, journalists, and others who they say are engaging in "misinformation" in the climate-change debate. The website Skeptical Science (SkS), founded by Australian cartoonist and self-described cognitive scientist John Cook, has created its own "climate misinformation by source" database, which is intended to offer a heads-up to universities, think tanks, and anyone else who might consider hiring or even listening to these "climate deniers."

The Academic Blacklist Climate Alarmists Don't Want You To Know About. The global warming faithful are always quick with the talking points about a "scientific consensus" that doesn't exist, and the tale that 97% of scientists say man is causing the planet to overheat. But we'll never hear them discuss publicly how researchers who don't agree with the narrative have been blacklisted. What are they afraid of? Of course the climate alarmists will never admit such a list even exists. But Roger Pielke Jr., who teaches science, environment, and technology policy at the University of Colorado, says it does. "A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science hosts a list of academics that it has labeled 'climate misinformers,'" Pielke recently wrote in Forbes. "The list includes 17 academics and is intended as a blacklist."

Media 'impartiality' on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous. In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation's editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a "zero-tolerance" approach to climate change deniers and sceptics. Their comments would be blocked and their accounts locked. [...] From the standpoint of conventional media ethics, it was a dramatic, even shocking, decision. It seemed to violate journalism's principle of impartiality — that all sides of a story should be told so audiences could make up their own minds. But in the era of climate change, this conventional approach is out of date. A more analytical approach is called for.

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There is no such thing as "the era of climate change." The climate always changes, and has always changed. What the writer probably means is, "the era of climate change hysteria."

The Green Road to Serfdom. What is new about this particular paean is how quickly it dispenses with the climate change façade to get to the activists' real agenda: pushing bright-red socialism with a dab of green paint. The Green New Deal sweeps away the Left's delicate 40-year plan to convince Americans that global warming has absolutely, positively nothing to do with socialism and goes for the jugular: ["]The need for a Green New Deal is more pronounced than ever, as marginalized communities are impacted by intersecting crises of climate change, increasing income/wealth inequality, and rising white nationalism and neo-fascism.["] And here you thought that climate change had something to do with the climate. That's a big admission, considering just how often liberals once dismissed conservative climate skepticism as "right-wing conspiracy theories," as Salon put it in 2015. In 2013, Britain's Guardian chided center-right fears of "watermelons" — green on the outside, red on the inside — as requiring "an impressive degree of paranoia." And, of course, there's the Left's favorite blanket phrase for shutting up non-believers: "climate change deniers."

The Era of 'Good' Fascism? Jane Fonda is chronically furious. This time she directed her wrath at those who disagree about the urgency of ending the entire fossil fuel industry and ruining the current economy. Her idea is to put climate "deniers" on trial for incorrect speech. So much for the First Amendment. "Now, because of the fossil fuel industry, it's too late for moderation," Fonda says. "And given the emergency, it's those who believe in moderation, in pre-Trump business as usual, who are truly delusional. And those who lie and continue to lie about what they're doing to the environment should be put on trial." Green teenage heartthrob Greta Thunberg has a different solution for those who disagree with her orthodox view on "climate change": "World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities, but we have to make sure they cannot do that. We will make sure that we put them against the wall, and they will have to do their job to protect our futures."



A Major but Little-Known Supporter of Climate Denial: Freight Railroads. In the fight against climate change, the nation's freight railroads have painted themselves as heroes. Rail is the "the most environmentally friendly way" to move cargo over land, says the Association of American Railroads, the industry's trade group. The industry's four biggest companies agree: "Railroads are essential to moving [climate] objectives forward," says CSX Transportation, the largest railroad east of the Mississippi. Yet for almost 30 years, the biggest players in the freight-rail industry have waged a campaign to discredit climate science and oppose almost any federal climate policy, reveals new research analyzed by The Atlantic.

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[#1] It is futile to "fight against climate change." If the climate's gonna change, all you can do it let it change, and adapt to it. [#2] If the railroads are accused of waging "a campaign to discredit climate science," that probably means the railroads are trying to discredit phony science and fake studies that have a pre-determined outcome, mandated by those who are funding the so-called science. In that regard, the railroads are just like any other company. [#3] There is no transportation system that can replace the railroads, and there is no network of solar panels, batteries, and windmills that can replace diesel engines. [#4] The article above is accompanied by an illustration (above) that purports to show six different colors of smoke coming from a locomotive. Well... at least two of the panels show white clouds, which are most likely water vapor coming from a boiler, not a locomotive, the one on the far right appears to be a volcanic eruption, and the one on the far left shows an old locomotive, obviously in a poor state of maintenance, most likely either in Russia or China. Nice try.

Climate derangement syndrome: Academic suggests UN use military to enforce climate agenda. What's the carbon footprint of a military invasion? And where's the army that the U.N. would use to invade a country that emits the CO2 that makes the world greener and greener? This guy makes me even happier that I ditched academia after getting my Ph.D. and teaching at Harvard.

California Burns, Gavin Newsom Fiddles. It is convenient for liberals to blame all shortfalls on a heating planet, a condition for which they hold humans — especially those in capitalistic societies — largely responsible. Any caveats are dismissed in the dictatorial manner of rigid religious who condemn all opposition as heretical. (Perhaps they believe that all dissenters should be put to the stake.) [...] Those who are allowed an opinion on the subject must first pledge allegiance to "global warming" as Public Enemy Number One. (Next to Trump himself, of course!) On the other hand, those who question the extent of man's role in climate change are labeled "flat earthers" by a global warming establishment that unscientifically cherry-picks opinions among scientists and excludes those that contradict the party line.

Clearing the Air on Climate Change. Now that a Swedish teenager has testified before Congress and school children across the globe have walked out of classes in protest of lack of action on climate change, I'm sure we all have a much better understanding of climate science. Indeed, with all the recent talk from Democratic presidential candidates and stories in the news media, it is astonishing how few real facts are ever discussed. Instead, we are treated to the fiction that any prediction of doom is based on "the science" and any skepticism of any such scenarios comes solely from ignorant "deniers."

Scared Yet? Greta Thunberg Poses as Herself to Intimidate 'Angry Climate Crisis Deniers'. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg took to Twitter on Halloween to mock her detractors by posing as herself — saying she terrifies her critics. The teenager, who has left school to travel the world preaching her message of climate salvation, said she scared "a bunch of angry climate crisis deniers" without having to dress up. Posing in a black-and-white photo with her trademark "school strike for climate" placard, she said she did not celebrate Halloween in Sweden but "thought I might give it a try'" if it meant she could affront her critics.

The Derangement Syndromes of Our Time. There was once a time when the lunatic screaming in the streets that the world was about to come to an end was the extremist, and those of us who believed the world was not about to come to an end were considered moderate and sane. No longer. Today, a lavishly financed, petulant teenage truant from Sweden can hector the intelligentsia of the world and receive adoring media coverage, while at the same time the patient logic of one of the preeminent economists of our time is scandalized as a "lukewarm" because he "denies" that the end of the world is nigh.

University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change. Nobody has done more to sink the claim that climate change is endangering polar bears than zoologist Susan Crockford — and she may have paid for it with her job. After 15 years as an adjunct assistant professor, Ms. Crockford said the University of Victoria rejected without explanation in May her renewal application, despite her high profile as a speaker and author stemming from her widely cited research on polar bears and dog domestication. Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to "outside pressure," the result of her research showing that polar bear populations are stable and even thriving, not plummeting as a result of shrinking Arctic sea ice, defying claims of the climate change movement.

The Global Warming-Climate Change Scam. [Scroll down] The global warming project has been characterised by fake data, dirty tricks and relentless dishonesty, including a penchant for sensational and ludicrous claims of extreme weather events which foretell human extinction, climate meltdown. There is a shift of emphasis once claims are debunked — the prophesies of a six degree rise in global temperature have given way to warnings that even a two degree increase in temperature will result in catastrophic consequences for life on earth. The many thousands of scientists who have protested the corruption of science and the demonisation of CO2, through articles, petitions and letters to world leaders, have had no impact in the face of the billions spent at every level of propaganda. The change in emphasis from 'global warming to 'climate' was not just to duck the issue of the failure of nature to deliver the said warming.

Ice-pack of lies. Unfortunately, critical scientific research does not always filter through to the public. Consequently, climate alarmists are getting away with blue murder pretending that we are on the edge of a climate precipice. These activists argue we are in a new era of catastrophic climate change. Make any reference to the historic past to gain some perspective and you will be howled down. Persist and you will be told that the pace of modern climate change is so rapid any perspective gained from examining the past is meaningless.

Dr Tim Ball Defeats Michael Mann's Climate Lawsuit! Supreme Court of British Columbia dismisses Dr Michael Mann's defamation lawsuit versus Canadian skeptic climatologist, Dr Tim Ball. Full legal costs are awarded to Dr Ball, the defendant in the case. The Canadian court issued it's final ruling in favor of the Dismissal motion that was filed in May 2019 by Dr Tim Ball's libel lawyers. The plaintiff Mann's "hockey stick" graph, first published in 1998, was featured prominently in the U.N. 2001 climate report. The graph showed an "unprecedented" spike in global average temperature in the 20th Century after about 500 years of stability. Skeptics have long claimed Mann's graph was fraudulent.

End of the Peer Show. Dr Tim Ball appears to have won the long legal jihad launched against him by climate mullah Michael E Mann. Because his court follows "the English rule" as opposed to the stinkeroo "American rule", the loser (Mann) will have to pay costs -- which is as it should be after a decade of entirely meritless litigation. But what if there's a more effective way to silence your critics? Say, by proving scientifically that they should be expelled from polite society.

Michael Mann, creator of the infamous global warming 'hockey stick,' loses lawsuit against climate skeptic, ordered to pay defendant's costs. Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the "hockey stick graph" that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The graph was first published in 1998, prominently featured in the 2001 UN Climate Report, and formed part of Al Gore's 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth. The graph's methodology and accuracy have been and continue to be hotly contested, but Mann has taken the tack of suing two of his most prominent critics for defamation or libel. One case, against Mark Steyn, is called by Steyn likely to end up in the Supreme Court. But another case, against Dr. Tim Ball was decided by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, with Mann's case thrown out, and him ordered to pay the defendant's legal costs, no doubt a tidy sum of money.

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Who is "dumping CO2 into the atmosphere"? Everybody! Where else are you supposed to put it?

Michael 'Hide the Decline' Mann Loses Defamation Lawsuit. Professor Michael Mann — the litigious climatologist who invented the discredited "Hockey Stick" chart and was implicated heavily in the Climategate scandal — has lost a long-running lawsuit against Canadian climate sceptic Dr Tim Ball. Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, had taken exception to a joke made by Ball in a 2011 interview, that he "should be in the State Pen, not Penn State."

Michael Mann Refuses to Produce Data, Loses Case. Some years ago, Dr. Tim Ball wrote that climate scientist Michael Mann "belongs in the state pen, not Penn State." At issue was Mann's famous "hockey stick" graph that purported to show a sudden and unprecedented 20th century warming trend. The hockey stick featured prominently in the IPCC's Third Assessment Report (2001), but has since been shown to be wrong. The question, in my view, is whether it was an innocent mistake or deliberate fraud on Mann's part. (Mann, I believe, continues to assert the accuracy of his debunked graph.) Mann sued Ball for libel in 2011. Principia Scientific now reports that the court in British Columbia has dismissed Mann's lawsuit with prejudice, and assessed costs against him.

Censorship! AOC-Aligned Climate Group Wants 'Deniers' Squashed in News Stories. On Monday night [8/19/2019], national radio host Mark Levin read from a frightening article by Tyler O'Neil at PJ Media headlined "AOC-Aligned Climate Group Demands Media Silence 'Climate Deniers'." A group called The Climate Mobilization which advocates for a dramatic "World War II-scale" takeover of the economy to fight global warming, condemned the media for pursuing "objectivity" by giving air time to "climate deniers." [...] What makes this more amusing is [Margaret] Klein Salamon is a psychologist, not a climatologist. Her co-founder Ezra Silk has a Bachelor's Degree in History. Her advisory board includes the "former executive vice president of The Cheesecake Factory," a minister who's president of the Hip Hop Caucus and Adam McKay, the movie director who recently made the Cheney-trashing movie Vice.

Climate Activists: Giving Skeptics Media Coverage Is 'Dangerous' For the Planet. Citing a new study arguing that the media give too much prominence to climate skeptics in their coverage of climate issues, a group advocating for governments to declare a climate "emergency" says those responsible for such editorial decisions are "sacrificing the future of our planet for the sake of appearing objective." "This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet, our existence as an ongoing debate," said Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of the New York-based The Climate Mobilization (TCM).

A Directory of Inconvenient Climate Information Websites. Conservative free speech advocates have been rightly concerned about internet censorship, but the focus of those concerns has been relatively narrow. Conservatives are pushing back against big tech suppression of online critics of globalism, mass immigration, and identity politics. They are pushing back against Big Tech suppression of pro-Trump commentators. But there is another collection of online voices that quietly and very effectively have been suppressed: climate-change skeptics.

A Sophomoric Look at Climate Change. [Scroll down] Everyone was giddy — except for that one guy who was taking the course merely for grade inflation potential. He asked questions like "What if the effect of the sun caused climate change?" and "Who caused the climate change that caused the last ice age?" and "What if the Earth has a natural ability to balance these variables?" Suddenly, the entire class was discombobulated. The instructor, too, was flustered, and he quickly dismissed the class, but he kept the skeptic behind. The next morning started one student short, and no one cared. This led to a secret corollary to mission success. No one will be allowed to dissent from the consensus.

Our Free Speech Crisis. [Scroll down] Today, there is growing contempt for free speech, most of which is found on the nation's college and university campuses. [Gettysburg College professor Allen C.] Guelzo cites the free speech vision of Princeton University professor Carolyn Rouse, who is chairperson of the department of Anthropology. Rouse shared her vision on speech during last year's Constitution Day lecture. She called free speech a political illusion, a baseless ruse to enable people to "say whatever they want, in any context, with no social, economic, legal or political repercussions." As an example, she says that a climate change skeptic has no right to make "claims about climate change, as if all the science discovered over the last X-number of centuries were irrelevant."

Peter Ridd: The Great Barrier Reef has about the same amount of coral as in 1985. [Peter Ridd] explains that what's happening on the Great Barrier Reef with coral bleaching is a normal cycle. He tells his story of being censured at James Cook university, but admits the state of free speech at universities in Australia is non-existent — even after his win. They discuss how we might reform science with audits (universities are almost a lost cause). We'll probably never know how many scientists think similar thoughts to Peter Ridd. We know that they'll need a $250,000 legal fund if they say so. [Video clip]

Oregon governor sends out state police to find GOP lawmakers skipping climate vote. Republican lawmakers in Oregon are in hot water after they refused to partake in a historic vote Thursday to implement a cap-and-trade program to help rein in industrial carbon emissions. Gov. Kate Brown authorized the state police to round up the 12 Republicans who walked out of the Capitol in protest of the bill and bring them back to the Senate floor for a vote. If passed the measure will make Oregon the second state in the country after California to implement such a program.

This scientist proved climate change isn't causing extreme weather — so politicians attacked. Roger Pielke Jr. is a scientist at University of Colorado in Boulder who, up until a few years ago, did world-leading research on climate change and extreme weather. He found convincing evidence that climate change was not leading to higher rates of weather-related damages worldwide, once you correct for increasing population and wealth. He also helped convene major academic panels to survey the evidence and communicate the near-unanimous scientific consensus on this topic to policymakers. For his efforts, Pielke was subjected to a vicious, well-funded smear campaign backed by, among others, the Obama White House and leading Democratic congressmen, culminating in his decision in 2015 to quit the field.

Racism: Is There Anything It Can't Do? This claim is so stupid that I can't even give it one of our coveted Green Weenie Awards: ["]Racial Resentment May Be Fueling Climate Denial: After Barack Obama took office, white Americans were less likely to see climate change as a serious problem, according to a recent paper published in the journal Environmental Politics. The study further finds evidence of a link between racial resentment and climate change denial. This is not to suggest that all climate deniers are racists, merely that racial resentment may, in part, be driving climate denial.["]

Conservatives Must Stand Up to Climate Change Bullying. [Marc] Morano explains why so many Republican support climate alarmism: "They just don't want to be seen as 'evil deniers' and they are prepared to give in wherever they can. They want to have less toxicity in the media, in town halls, in social circles around the Washington establishment. By supporting the climate scare, they're going to be better liked, less embarrassed by their positions and can say, 'you can't call us deniers anymore!' That gives them a level of comfort at parties, campaign events, speeches and town halls."

The conduct of climate activists has been destructive, deceitful and violent. Global warming alarmists have shouted down legitimate debate and committed deceitful and violent acts in support of their false cause. The Climategate emails provide irrefutable evidence of scientific collusion and fraudulent misconduct. In Canada, skeptic climatologist Dr. Tim Ball and other skeptics have received threats, and buildings related to the energy industry including the Calgary Petroleum Club were firebombed. In the USA, skeptic scientists have had their homes invaded, and several highly competent skeptic scientists have been harassed and driven from their academic posts.

Climate Change Is Socialist Groupthink. If you're someone who can think for himself, you have probably wondered why climate science is such a mess. Why do they torture the temperature data to get it to look like a hockey stick in graphs? Why do they ignore or slander critics instead of answering their concerns when they offer good evidence?

Climate Change and the Ten Warning Signs for Cults. [#2] No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. The conclusions of the Climate Change movement may not be challenged or questioned under any circumstances. Those who dare scrutinize the conclusions, methodology, or prescriptions of "climate scientists" are categorically dismissed as a "Climate Denier", an excommunicated untouchable whose opinion is no longer valid on any subject. Questions and critical inquiry aren't merely dismissed or refuted. The unfortunate heretic immediately experiences a relentless ad hominem onslaught of scorn and hatred from the political and media left, and is often subjected to accusations of outright murder. Simply question the effectiveness of a "carbon tax" and you may find yourself tied to a stake. There is no tolerance for questioning the Climate Change movement, and thus it clearly meets the second warning sign for unsafe groups.

Climate skeptic scientist Peter Ridd wins big! In May 2018, after an academic career of more than 30 years, Peter had his employment terminated as a professor of physics at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. Peter had spoken against the accepted orthodoxy that climate change was 'killing' the Great Barrier Reef. [...] Peter's court case has enormous implications for the international debate about climate change, and for the ongoing crisis surrounding freedom of speech.

Huge victory for genuine scientific inquiry on global warming. The greatest "tell" for non-scientists evaluating the likelihood that the anthropogenic global warming theory is a fraud is that instead of critically examining the facts, warmists try to silence skeptics, with some of them even demanding jail for the thought-crime of questioning their unproven theory. So thorough has been the pressure to keep the fraud going and keep the billions of dollars a year in research funds flowing to universities and other research institutions pushing the party line that skeptics are under threat of firing — and some have been fired. That's why this news from Australia is so important.

Questioning Global Warming. The question should be asked: are we looking at the wrong phenomenon and should be debating global cooling? A number of climate scientists believe "another major cooling" is likely to happen in this century. Despicably and treacherously GWCC [global warming/climate change] has overtaken all rational discussions about all forms of energy, electricity and the weather. If you question GWCC you are a "climate denier," or worse you're viciously attacked without fully vetting the issue of whether or not man is causing anthropogenic GWCC.

Can We Talk? The problem is that too many members of society today (more liberals than conservatives in my experience) are simply unwilling to listen to an opposing viewpoint, because they don't care about truth. They only want to silence their intellectual counterparts. For example, Bill Nye insanely suggested that skeptics of "climate change" should face criminal charges and prison sentences for daring to question the orthodoxy of climate change.

Climate Science, Red in Tooth and Claw. We are reassured that the global warming scare is absolutely solid science, as everyone except climate deniers knows. What everyone may not know is that climate science is an industry, and the product is the global warming scare. If the global warming scare is discredited, the huge industry will collapse. Climate scientists used to be unimportant academics in an unimportant academic field. The global warming scare made them into celebrities jetting around the world. They won't give up the glory without a fight. Climate computer models, the basis of the doomsday predictions, disagree with each other and disagree with the climate of the Earth. But according to the climate science mafia, anyone who brings up such embarrassing information is a tool of the fossil fuel industry.

Mass Immigration and Climate Change Doublethink. When recipients of tens of millions of dollars in federal climate research grants ask the Department of Justice to arrest, prosecute, and imprison those who question their data quality, analysis, and conclusions, it's a fair bet they're up to something, but whatever it is, it's not science. The peer review process has been a disaster for a long time. It would not be improved by deep state prosecutors going after scientific peers who are more interested in homing in on the truth than in advancing a political agenda. Climate change skepticism should also be informed by headlines proclaiming that a particular year was the Hottest in Recorded History. That headline piqued my interest, but my willingness to believe was affected when I later learned that the "hottest year ever" part was based on a statistical analysis that was less robust than a coin toss.

Climate Alarmists Reduced to Recycling Discredited Attacks on Skeptics. Last week, Esquire Associate Editor Jack Holmes penned a piece accusing The Republican Party (a.k.a. powerful "fossil-fuel interests") of warping discussions about "the consensus that climate change is happening, and human activity is causing it." [...] And this warmist is not entertaining any dissent: ["]Anyone who continues to question whether [manmade global warming] is happening should be ostracized from the public debate. They should not be invited on cable news or the Sunday Shows to spread misinformation and outright lies. These voices have been granted legitimacy for far too long.["] It would appear that Esquire's Holmes received the same memo as did NBC's Chuck Todd several weeks ago.

NBC Science Deniers Refuse Climate Debate. Wake up, America! We the People are being told we are not intelligent enough to understand both sides of an issue and come to our own conclusions. The media have gone from doing their job, reporting the news without opinion or bias, to being pompous dictators, doling out only the information they want us to have.

It's Climate Alarmists Who Remain in Denial. Chuck Todd opened last year's final Meet the Press show, which focused its entire hour on climate change, with a pompous, long-winded speech blaming human activity for a disastrously overheating Planet Earth. The NBC News host made news himself by declaring that "climate deniers" aren't welcome to the discussion because "the science is settled." It was an awful show, even by NBC standards -- a Sunday news and discussion program that not only deliberately invited only one point of view to the table, but proudly proclaimed as much in its opening statement. As promised, what followed was as one-sided and alarmist-biased a presentation on the subject as you're likely to see anywhere.

Stop the Personal Attacks and Answer the Climate Questions. When you realize you are losing an argument, it is common to abandon the argument and attack the person. It is one of many forms of arguments called ad hominem, or to the person. A disagreement between two people makes an ad hominem argument easy to notice. The loser and the winner are clear, and a shift in the tone and focus of the discussion is relatively apparent. The structure and method chosen to create the myth of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) guaranteed an ad hominem situation. The evidence against the hypothesis was overwhelming from the start. The only question was left academic. Can you have a collective ad hominem, that is a personal attack on a group, or does it only apply to an attack on an individual? The answer is not about the number but the nature of the attack. When it is an individual, the attack occurs because the debate on the issue is lost, and that is true when it is a group.

Another Year of Torrential Media Bias. In a smug bow to this open dogmatism, NBC's Chuck Todd last Sunday [12/30/2018] prided himself on holding an hourlong episode of Meet the Press devoted to climate change without any conservative skeptics present. Todd teed up the episode with a pompous disclaimer that sums up the presumption and propaganda of the media perfectly: "Just as important as what we are going to do is what we're not going to do. We're not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The earth is getting hotter and human activity is a major cause, period. We're not going to give time to climate deniers. The science is settled even if political opinion is not." The self-appointed media arbiters of what is and what is not "settled" will apparently let us know if an issue is permissibly debatable anymore.

Chuck Todd Bans 'Climate Deniers' From Meet The Press. On Sunday [12/30/2018] Chuck Todd, host of NBC's Meet The Press, used his bully pulpit to deny any opportunity for opponents of climate change activists to appear while he devoted his entire show to climate change, saying, "We're not going to give time to climate deniers." Beginning by announcing his show would be devoted to the "climate crisis," Todd played snippets from various people, some of whom have suffered from natural disasters and some who simply opined that there was indeed a crisis, then pontificated: "The evidence is everywhere." "The science is settled." "But the politics is not."

NBC News host says no air time for climate 'deniers' on "Meet the Press': 'Science is settled'. NBC News has decided that climate change is no longer an issue that has two sides. Sunday's [12/30/2018] episode of "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd featured an hourlong panel with lawmakers and scientists about the consequences of climate change. But at the start, Mr. Todd said his show is "not going to give time to climate deniers" and went on to inaccurately characterize the nature of the climate debate. "Just as important as what we are going to do is what we're not going to do," he said. "We're not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The earth is getting hotter, and human activity is a major cause. Period."

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Not so fast, Mr. Todd. [#1] The earth is warming at the rate of perhaps one degree per century. In your lifetime, chances are the average global temperature will increase one degree or less. That is an imperceptible change. [#2] Human activity is a very minor cause of global warming. Most of the warming in the 20th century occurred before 1940. The widespread use of internal combustion engines didn't begin until after 1940. The output power of the sun varies, and that causes the earth to warm or cool. [#3] No legislation will stop climate change. [#4] Nobody really knows from one decade to another if warming will continue, or if global cooling will take over. [#5] The global warming hoax is all about expanding the government and collecting taxes.

Climate scientist hit with campus 'inquisition' over post opposing carbon tax. University of Washington atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass has been called plenty of names, including climate "denier," but it wasn't until he came out against the state's proposed carbon tax last month that he was accused of being a racist. Since then, Mr. Mass said he has been upbraided by the university's diversity dean and subjected to a faculty "inquisition," events that have stoked alarm about the threat posed by campus climate-change activism to academic freedom.

Green Energy is the Perfect Scam. Anyone who criticizes the green energy scam is ruthlessly attacked. Critics are often accused of being in the pay of fossil fuel companies. Fossil fuel companies are too timid to risk the wrath of the green movement, so they hardly ever give money to the critics of the green movement. A favorite line of attack is to accuse the critics of using tobacco company tactics to cover up the danger from using fossil fuels. Critics are often depicted as being mental cases, as when Al Gore said that critics of his global warming promotions were like people who think the moon landing was filmed in a Hollywood studio or think that the Earth is flat. James Hansen, often considered that father of the global warming movement, suggested that executives of fossil fuel companies should be sent to jail for crimes against humanity. Green energy is the perfect scam because it is disguised as a do-good movement and the victims are dispersed, unorganized and disarmed by propaganda.

Sierra Club says you're RACIST if you don't agree with "climate change" mythology. Climate change alarmists can't really fight against science, so they've stooped to some old-fashioned name-calling instead. Now, if you don't believe the climate change mythology, it must mean you're racist, according to the Sierra Club. Yes, you read that correctly. The long-standing environmental group has been latching onto a study that claims there is a strong correlation between "reduced agreement with the scientific consensus on climate change" and "high levels of racial resentment."

Witch-Hunt and Pseudo-Science: Sorry State of Climate Science. Marine biologist Peter Ridd was sacked last month by James Cook University (JCU) in Australia for disagreeing on the state of the Great Barrier Reef. Ridd, a skeptic of exaggerated impacts of climate change on coral reefs, was put on notice earlier this year after he expressed his opinion on a private news channel. Despite Ridd's posing no threat to the university or to the health of research there, the university sacked him for disagreeing with some propaganda climate alarmists use to scare the general public — the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef due to man-made climate change. [...] Ridd is not the only victim of this climate witch-hunt. Climate alarmists routinely attack scientists who pose a threat to the extremist narrative.

The Rapid 'Progress' of Progressivism. Twenty years ago, there was honest debate over global warming. Ten years ago, there was still honest debate over the effects of human-induced climate change. Five years ago, there was still honest debate over the cost-benefit analysis of dealing with the problem. Not now. Anyone who doubts that there is an existential man-caused threat to the planet — requiring the radical and costly reconstruction of the global economy and society — is considered a "denier," deserving of professional ostracism or worse.

Play titled 'Kill Climate Deniers' launches theatrical run. Global warming skeptics, beware: A play with the alarming title "Kill Climate Deniers" may be coming to a theater near you. Written by Australian playwright David Finnigan, "Kill Climate Deniers" kicked off Thursday the 2018 season of the Griffin Theatre in Sydney after a week of previews, with the final show scheduled for April 7.

The climate Gulag archipelago. Climate alarmism, like all leftist propaganda, has turned virulent among its many followers. It has been widely chronicled how the Gang Green — the radical environmental Nazis pushing climate change to establish an international order — has threatened nonbelievers or at least fantasized about horrible things being done to those who simply do not agree with their marginal and rather manipulated science. We've had professors calling for the death penalty for climate change "denial," and we've had calls for Nuremberg-style trials for "deniers." They have tried to call those who do not believe in global warming insane. Even NASA scientist James Hansen called for trials of "deniers," a blood libel term designed to evoke visions of neo-Nazis. Well, here's another one for you. Over at Quadrant, Tony Thomas has unearthed a 2008 fantasy document from Forum for the Future, a hard-left Green infection posing as a non-profit group. Their dream? A gulag archipelago for climate change-deniers.

A Veneer of Certainty Stoking Climate Alarm. While the nations of the world met in Bonn to discuss implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Trump administration was working to dismantle President Obama's Clean Power Plan and to establish a climate "red team" to critically evaluate the scientific basis for dangerous human-caused climate change and the policy responses. The mantra of "settled science" is belied by the inherent complexity of climate change as a scientific problem, the plethora of agents and processes that influence the global climate, and disagreements among scientists. Manufacture and enforcement of a "consensus" on the topic of human-caused climate change acts to the detriment of the scientific process, our understanding of climate change, and the policy responses. Indeed, it becomes a fundamentally anti-scientific process when debate, disagreement, and uncertainty are suppressed.

The Global Warming Thought Police Want Skeptics In 'Jail'. Conform or else. That's the message of the global warming alarmists. Those who don't buy into the man-made climate change narrative should be prosecuted as criminals. "Put officials who reject science in jail," someone named Brad Johnson who says he's executive director of something called Climate Hawks Vote tweeted last month.

Don't Call Climate Skeptics 'Deniers,' Call Us 'Correct'. Arturo Casadevall and Ferric Fang, two academic microbiologists with no special knowledge of climate, recently used their article in the Hill to commit the repellent but now commonplace hate-crime of describing researchers skeptical of the sillier exaggerations of the climate-change establishment as "denialists." This disfiguring hate-word, calculated to invite an invidious comparison between climate skeptics and those who say the Nazis did not murder six million Jews, is not fit to be uttered by any serious academic. [...] The two microbiologists have missed the point entirely. They talk of "virtually unanimous consensus" that Earth is facing a period of anthropogenic climate change. Yet the largest sample of academic papers on climate ever studied — an impressive 11,944 papers over the 21 years 1991â€“2011 — showed only 0.3 percent "consensus" explicitly supporting the proposition recent global warming was mostly manmade. The question whether the small warming that is to be expected will prove dangerous was not even asked; the "consensus" on that question is even smaller. Even if there were a "virtually unanimous consensus," science is not advanced by consensus but by informed dissent. The instances the microbiologists themselves cite make it quite clear that where there is a "consensus," it is nearly always wrong, at least at the margins.

Oops! Climate Cultist Destroys [His] Own Position. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been doing the leftist media interview circuit recently, pressing his peculiar thesis that professional (i.e., paid) scientists are a superior class of humans whose conclusions are intrinsically beyond reproach and must therefore be accepted blindly by unscientific lunks like you. In each of these interviews, a non-climate scientist asks a series of predetermined questions designed to elicit rehearsed responses from the non-climate scientist Tyson, the upshot of which is that (a) people who question man-made global warming are anti-scientific fools driven by irrational agendas; (b) scientific consensus is not the product of the social and political pressures of academic life working on the minds of the career-motivated, publication-obsessed majority of scholarly mediocrities, but rather consensus is the very definition of Objective Truth; and (c) anyone who questions a scientific consensus poses a threat to the survival of democracy.

Limousine Liberal Leo DeCaprio Joins Globalist John Kerry: Climate Deniers Like Trump Shouldn't Hold Office. Two hypocrite climate change freaks decided to pontificate to a packed house at Yale. Both John Kerry and Leo DeCaprio love to hear themselves talk so this had to be a snoozefest. The most ironic thing about the preaching on global warming coming from these two men is that they have HUGE carbon footprints. Does Leo not understand that we know he travels by private jet and big yacht[?] What a joke! These two blow hard limousine liberals are why Trump won.

Punish the Thought: Do Climate-change Skeptics Belong in Jail? Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have left more in their wake than destruction of property and devastation of lives. In the wreckage of the two storms, you can also see little pieces of the Constitution of the United States, torn up by global-warming hysterics, who now wish to criminalize what they call "climate-change denial." In the aftermath of the two major hurricanes, the left-wing magazine The Nation published an article written by Mark Hertsgaard on September 7, linking climate-change skepticism with actual murder. In his piece, entitled "Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us," Hertsgaard writes that "murder is murder" and "we should punish it as such." Lest you think that Hertsgaard is simply one lone lunatic in a sea of rational journalists and scientists, there are dozens of others who are calling for the jailing of public officials who, in their words, "deny science" and work against the sweeping socialist reforms demanded by climate alarmists.

Climate Depot's Morano receives threatening email: 'You and your children should be burned in public'. Marc Morano received the following barely literate email: ["]Although it is my belief that you and your children should be burned in public. Not be cause [sic] you are " a skeptic", I honestly believe that you know the science is true, but because you are to [sic] cowardly to engage in a real dialog. [..."]

Climate Kooks Escalate Calls for Criminalizing Dissent. When Harvey struck, it ended a record run for the longest the USA has gone without a hurricane — just under 12 years. It is in a three-way tie for only the 17th most powerful storm to hit us since the 1850s. Unsurprisingly, people have been snickering at the predictable claim by liberals that finally getting a couple of hurricanes is proof of their discredited anthropogenic global warming theories. True to type, the climate commies are falling back on the favorite tactic of progressives — coercion.

Former NASA GISS climate scientist tells new NASA head to stop funding "corrupt, carpet-baggers". A new incendiary blog by Dr. Duane Thresher and Dr. Claudia Kubatzki unleashes on NASA Goddard Institute (one of the two main motherlodes of climate activism), calling for them to be defunded because they are "ignoble", with "herds of do-gooders", and "NASA GISS is a monument to bad science that truly should be torn down. Take the money and buy a rocket." They are a husband and wife team, both producing peer-reviewed climate papers. He worked at NASA GISS for seven years. Since they came out as skeptics in California, they've had to move house.

Stevie Wonder: Climate Change Deniers 'Must Be Blind'. At a time when fewer people than ever watch television live, how does a telethon have an impact? By going viral.

Hurricane Irma Telethon Turns into Liberal Hate-Fest. The stars turned out Tuesday night [9/12/2017] for a celebrity-studded telethon to help the victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but it didn't take long for the event to turn into a liberal rallying cry; with Stevie Wonder opening the event by saying anyone unsure about "climate change" was either "blind or unintelligent." The event became political within minutes, with iconic singer Steve Wonder opening the event by saying, "When love goes into action, it preferences no color of skin, no ethnicity, no religious beliefs, no sexual preferences, and no political persuasions."

Hurricane Telethon Gets Political Right At The Start. Singer Stevie Wonder kicked off Tuesday's star studded Hand In Hand telethon to raise money for hurricane recovery by getting political. Wonder started the show by saying, "Anyone who believes that there's no such thing as global warming must be blind or unintelligent."

Oh Scientia! Oh Mores! This whole "don't believe in science" canard amounts to ackamarackus bordering on flimflam. Even if you were a 100 percent "denier" of climate change, that wouldn't necessarily mean you don't "believe" in science. Indeed, many of the hardcore rejectionists I know are really, really, really into the science of climate change (tell the guys at CEI they don't believe in science, I dare you). They just tend to think the prevailing "consensus" is a politically and journalistically contrived sham. But even if you are a "denier" without being a science dork, that doesn't necessarily mean you don't believe in "science."

Revisiting Wind Turbine Numbers. Sustainability and renewable energy claims are too grounded in ideology, magic and politics. Wind and solar energy forecasts ignore the need to find and mine vast new metal and mineral deposits — and open US lands that are now off limits, unless we want to import all our wind turbines, solar panels and batteries. They assume land use impacts don't really exist if they are in other people's backyards. Worse, too often anyone trying to raise these inconvenient truths is shouted down, silenced, ignored. That has to stop.

Dirty Big Green Criminalizes Climate Science. Big Green is escalating its crackdown on climate science. If you are going to falsely claim that 99.99% of scientists agree with you, the best way to ensure that is by criminalizing scientific dissent. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for punishing and imprisoning dissenters. Bill Nye endorsed such a call just last week. And while it's easy to dismiss Kennedy and Nye as famous crackpots, Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted that there had been discussions about prosecuting climate dissenters. And that materials had been passed along to the FBI.

N.C. State researchers say solar lobby silencing them. Ron Heiniger just wanted to be a farmer. He encouraged research to avoid solar industry encroachment on North Carolina's prime farmlands. But because of his academic study, the respected crop and soil scientist has become an unwilling poster child for anti-solar activists, vilified by the solar lobby, and chastened by his employer, N.C. State University. "I've been called crazy. I've been threatened. My job's been threatened. I really don't want to advertise my issue very much anymore," said Heiniger, who works at the Vernon G. James Research and Extension Center in Plymouth.



The Church of Man-Made Climate Change on trial. A little-known court case is taking place in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver. This case involves two scientists and two set of graphs. One of the graphs is very famous, and the basis for every man-made climate change believer's faith, while the other... is not. The foundation of the church of man-made climate change is on shaky ground, and an earthquake could be coming. Michael Mann is a climatologist and geophysicist working at Penn State University. In 1998, he was the leader of a group using statistical techniques that created a graph showing the earth's temperature over the last 1,000 years. The graph would gain international fame and become known as the "hockey stick graph."

Lindzen: On the 'Death of Skepticism' Concerning Climate Hysteria. [Scroll down] These were hardly fringe scientists (as opposed to Nye who is no scientist at all). On the contrary, they were leading figures whose deep interest in climate long pre-dated the Global Warming Hysteria and the subsequent explosion of support for those endorsing alarm. So, Bill Nye is right. The newcomers are younger, and with death of many of the previous generation, they have come to dominate the field — to the great detriment of the science, itself. Those, among the older generation, who are still alive, are the subject of constant public abuse and libel, leading several of them like Bengtsson and Tennekes to withdraw from the field. [...] In addition, there are many outstanding scientists who have bothered to actually examine this issue, and have come to the obvious conclusion that there is much less to the story of gloom and doom than is popularly asserted.

Al Gore compares 'global warming' skeptics to Southern racists. If you're skeptical about "global warming" and "climate change," you're as bad as the backwards as racist Southerners in the 1960s, according to Chief Alarmist Al Gore. Gore, who recently was exposed for his mass consumption of energy at his Tennessee mansion, made the comparison on CNN this weekend.

The Left's War on the First Amendment. [Scroll down] This isn't just a media phenomenon. It's what happened across the social spectrum when the people we used to call liberals became illiberal leftists. It's why colleges censor controversial speakers and punish dissenting faculty. It's why the environmental debate went from scientific discussions to calls to punish, fine and even jail those who question the left's Luddite alarmism on Global Warming.

Alleged 'science guy' Bill Nye: Older people need to die before climate change science can advance. In an interview published Wednesday at the Los Angeles Times, Bill Nye, the alleged "science guy," said that older people have to die off before so-called "climate change" science can advance. The reason, he said, is that older people are more resistant to the environmentalist propaganda. "It just sounds like people are scared. It just sounds like people are afraid. And the people who are afraid in general — with due respect, and I am now one of them — are older," he said. "Climate change deniers, by way of example, are older. It's generational. So we're just going to have to wait for those people to 'age out,' as they say. 'Age out' is a euphemism for 'die.' But it'll happen, I guarantee you — that'll happen."

Things Get Hot for Michael Mann. Mann has been waging lawfare against people who have rightly called him out on his deceptive practices, practices paid for with tax dollars and subject to the Freedom of Information Act. In point of fact, the Gang Green, the radical environmental lobby promoting the global warming hysteria, has poured massive amounts of money into the effort, far more than was spent by their opposition. Couple that with the fact that national, state, and local governments have been supporting alarmism, as have charitable organizations and even businesses (when head of Exxon-Mobile Rex Tillerson moved the company to support climate change alarmism and it becomes obvious why Mann pursues a strategy of legal action; the intent is to win a war of attrition, to bankrupt "deniers" and critics so as to silence them. Having lost the battle in the court of public opinion and in the realm of facts, they now seek to bully the opposition into silence.

Global Warming Skepticism is Part of the Final Phase of the American Revolution. [Scroll down] Marshall McLuhan's global village was realized through the electronic village of the Internet. The power of the Internet and thereby its threat to the power elite who want total government control. The mainstream media and their political masters were end run by the people ignoring them and seeking facts evidence and information from fellow citizens. Internet success and power were confirmed when the power elite and media tried to participate by creating websites. [...] For the first time in history, the people had access to and control of information.

Campus police told students to stop touting the benefits of fossil fuels on campus: lawsuit. A lawsuit has been filed against Macomb Community College after its campus police tried to stop a group of students from handing out information touting the benefits of fossil fuels. Three students working to advance their arguments at the Michigan college in late April were threatened with trespassing by the officers because the students did not have official permission from administrators to engage in public expression on campus, alleges the lawsuit, filed last week. The lawsuit claims the college's policy requiring a 48-hour pre-approval in person and in writing for expressive activity is a violation of students' First Amendment rights. The suit also takes issue with the fact that even after such permission is obtained, the speech zone at the community college's Central Campus is only about .001 percent of the entire 230-acre campus.

Feds Fund Dissertation on 'Climate Change Denial'. The National Science Foundation is funding a doctoral dissertation on "climate change denial." The University of Kansas was awarded $12,000 for the research, which began on June 1. The research seeks to find a "more complete and nuanced understanding" of individuals who are skeptical that human beings cause climate change. The dissertation focuses on two parishes outside of New Orleans, along the Mississippi River, and claims that residents who work in the oil industry "exploit the local environment." [...] The researchers seek to prove that people who do not believe in man-made global warming are driven in part by their emotions.

Former NASA Chief Scientist: America is "Under Siege" from Climate Disinformers. The science is NOT unequivocal that we face a climate emergency. Using the IPCC's own climate figures, there is a real possibility anthropogenic CO2 is not a big deal. Calling people who point this out purveyors of "fake news" is pure climate alarmism. As for what happens after the year 2100, frankly that is their problem. By the year 2100 humanity will know whether CO2 is causing climate problems — and will have the energy supply options and advanced engineering capabilities to deal with any eventuality.

Convert, Pay, or Die. Convert, pay, or die is the set of choices Islam offers infidels. Coincidentally, this is also what today's progressives and the Democratic Party offer nonbelievers, climate "deniers," white males, heterosexuals, patriots, blue-collar workers, farmers, miners, people without a college degree, the religiously devout, Republicans, and everybody else choosing not to buy into the party's version of what America is and what the nation owes both its citizens and the world.

It's the theory of Global Warming that's really dangerous. It seems we have abdicated our ability to think rationally or to question whatever claims these pseudo scientists make about planet earth. It is extremely unsettling that anyone questioning the flawed data given by these charlatans is deemed a denier and dangerous skeptic. All scientific research requires debate and honest questioning rather than wholesale swallowing data from individuals who may have agendas based on funding from environmentalists hostile to our way of life.

Dilbert Disses Global Warming; Liberal Heads Explode. Scott Adams has gone full-on climate denialist in his latest Dilbert strip, causing liberal heads to explode. [...] Anyone who questions this groupthink is labelled a "science denier." But as Adams has grasped it has nothing to do with science. Rather it's about the politically driven misapplication of models which have no real-world basis.

WRAL's Greg Fishel goes off on climate change deniers. Popular local weatherman Greg Fishel had strong words for climate change deniers on his Facebook page on Sunday [5/22/2017]. Fishel, chief meteorologist at WRAL, went off on people who question the science behind climate change, telling them to "put up or shut up." The post had earned more than 3,500 reactions by Monday afternoon.

How to Recognize 'Science Denial'. There is a consensus of evidence that human activity is causing all of recent global warming. Not some of it. Not even most of it. All of it. [...] How do we recognize science denial? The various movements who have rejected a scientific consensus share the same five characteristics of science denial: reliance on fake experts, using logical fallacies to arrive at false conclusions, demanding impossible expectations of scientific proof, cherry picking from the full body of evidence and conspiracy theories to explain the consensus. Psychology tells us something important about the five characteristics of science denial. While they may come across as nefarious tactics, they're not always deliberately deceptive.

No, I Am Not a Moron but Half the Country is Deranged. What is so dangerous about the climate change issue is the frenzied attack on skeptics. Several deranged GW advocates have urged prison sentences and even death threats against those who do not agree with their warnings. Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that climate change is as dangerous as, if not more, than the threats posed by the Islamic State and other extremist groups. Obama and other Congressional Democrats concur with this fascist conclusion. It took the Vatican 350 years to conclude that Galileo was right. Let's hope it doesn't' take that long for the deranged to come to their senses and realize they are the real morons.

Heartland Institute Excluded by Local Organizers of 'Open Forum' on Climate Change. On Saturday, May 6, North Central College in Naperville, Illinois will be hosting an event organized by Illinois Congressman Bill Foster (D-14) dubbed an "open forum on climate change." [...] Although the event's website says "It's time for an honest discussion on the facts," only the alarmist side of the contentious climate change debate will be distributing literature or making presentations. The Heartland Institute — identified by The Economist as "the world's most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change" — was not invited to participate in the "open forum." Heartland contacted North Central College and asked if it could offer a dissenting view, and were told the event was organized and controlled by Foster's office, and we would not be allowed to participate.

Bill Nye's Fake Science. Any alleged "scientist" who claims that his main goal is to "save the world" has forfeited his right to be called a scientist. Same principle applies for journalists. If your goal is to uncover anything but the unvarnished truth — no matter where the truth may take you or how brutally it may undermine your ideological leanings — then you are starting off with answers rather than questions and have corrupted the entire process. Take, for example, the ideologically loaded but intellectually vacant term of "climate change denier." Also flung against Holocaust and vaccine skeptics, the term "denier" itself is a grossly dishonest construction — it implies that the "denier" agrees with the accuser but is lying about it. It starts from a premise of bad faith and eliminates the possibility that someone might simply disagree — or even have sincere questions.

Climate Bullies Take to the Streets for 'People's Climate March'. After the March for Science this past Saturday [4/22/2017], shots were fired at the office of John Christy, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama, Hunstville, and a well-known climate-change skeptic. Christy's colleague, Roy Spencer, reported the shooting on social media on Monday: "When some people cannot argue facts, they resort to violence to get their way. Maybe the 'March for Science' should have been called the 'March to Silence.'" This is the kind of thuggery climate leaders promote so they can keep their agenda intact. They play the victim by insisting that the Trump administration and Republicans are trying to oppress them, but they are the perpetrators, intimidating and coercing anyone who dares to defy them.

Do You Think Bill Nye Is A 'Science Guy' or a Propagandist? Bill Nye has GOT to stop taking himself (and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering) so seriously. None of the rest of us do. Well, MOST of the rest of us don't. But he's famous and played a scientist on (Children's) tv. And more importantly, has a science-y sounding name. Therefore he is held up as an authority by the party that tends to rely too heavily on star power and arguments from authority in the first place. He's taken a break from calling for the incarceration of 'climate change deniers'.

Bullets Shatter Windows Next To A Prominent Global Warming Skeptic's Office. Shots were fired at the fourth floor of a science and technology center at the University of Alabama-Huntsville sometime over the weekend, hitting windows adjacent to climatologist John Christy's office. No one was hurt, and university police have characterized the event as a "random shooting," UAH spokesman Ray Garner told WHNT News. [...] While police say the shooting looks to be random, Christy's colleague, Dr. Roy Spencer, said it's "more than coincidence" that shots were fired around Earth Day.

Climate Marches Aren't About Science — They're About Trump. A science march website says this is "explicitly a political movement, aimed at holding leaders in science and politics accountable" for trying to "skew, ignore, misuse or interfere with science." That pious language really means they intend to allow no deviation from climate cataclysm doctrines. It means everyone must accept claims that fossil fuel emissions, not powerful natural forces, now govern Earth's climate; any future changes will be catastrophic; despite growing wealth and technological prowess, humanity will somehow be unable to adapt to future uctuations; and mankind can and must control the climate by regulating emissions of plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide, regardless of costs.

Bill Nye: 'We'll See' About Jailing Climate Change Skeptics. Global warming skeptics should be jailed by the federal government because "this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen," science activist Bill Nye said in a video published Wednesday on YouTube.

Democrats Ask Teachers To Destroy Books Written By 'Climate Deniers'. Three senior House Democrats asked U.S. teachers Monday to destroy a book written by climate scientists challenging the environmentalist view of global warming. The Democrats were responding to a campaign by the conservative Heartland Institute copies of the 2015 book, "Why Climate Scientists Disagree About Global Warming" to about 200,000 science teachers. Democratic Reps. Bobby Scott of the Committee on Education, Raúl M. Grijalva of the Committee on Natural Resources, and Eddie Bernice Johnson of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology all issued a statement telling teachers to trash the book.

Democrats Lose Argument, Try to Burn Books. If you make scientific arguments against a fraudulent claim that benefits government, you are "anti-science." And if you tell the truth about the Earth's climate, you are a "climate denier." [...] Why do you think our federal government has funded global warming alarmism to the tune of $40 billion? It is all about power and money.

Tucker and Bill Nye Clash on Climate Change. Bill Nye the Science Guy believes that climate change skeptics suffer from "cognitive dissonance," which prevents them from accepting how man-made global warming affects their lives. On "Tucker Carlson Tonight," [2/27/2017] Nye argued that many people prefer to bury their heads in the sand instead of accepting evidence that conflicts with their preexisting worldviews. [Video clip]

Bill Nye Loses The Plot. Bill Nye the not-really-Science Guy was on Tucker Carlson tonight [2/27/2017]. Tucker tried time after time to get Nye to say how much of the change was due to humans ... and time after time, Nye refused to say what his opinion was. So Tucker got him to agree that the climate has always been changing. Then, in response to the question as to "what the climate would be like if humans weren't involved right now", Bill Nye said (according to my own transcription): NYE: "The climate would be like it was in 1750. [...]"

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The entire interview is worth watching, and as I recall, the quote is accurate. So apparently Mr. Nye believes that human activity prior to 1750 had no effect on the climate. (Interesting, inasmuch as the Chinese were burning coal at least 3000 years ago, and everybody burned firewood long before that.) Mr. Nye apparently blames the Industrial Revolution for all the problems (he perceives) with the environment. Mr. Nye went on to say that the global warming problem is so urgent that it must be dealt with in a matter of decades, not centuries. Really? How much global warming has taken place in the last two decades? The answer is approximately zero. Bill Nye may think of himself as a science guy, but he's really more of an alarmist who is in a panic over a problem that does not exist — at least to the extent that he believes.

Democrats' Real Global Warming Fraud Revealed. The Democrats are devastated by their recent lost elections. They will be even more devastated as we learn the details of their massive global warming fraud. Dr. John Bates, a former high level NOAA scientist, set off a furor by revealing that a recent NOAA paper, which claimed global warming hadn't "paused" during the past 20 years, was fraudulent. The paper was timed to undergird Obama's signing of the hugely expensive Paris climate agreement. This is only a tiny fraction of the climate fraud.

When Is a Fact Not a Fact? Science, like all empirical thinking, begins with facts. It formulates a hypothesis and subjects it to experimental verification. Or falsification, as the case may be. As philosopher Karl Popper once argued, if you will not allow facts to refute your theory you are not doing science. [...] The alt-left has been hard at work trying to undermine our confidence in the facts. They want us to ignore the facts, to refuse to let the facts or the results obtained by an experiment or by the market influence our judgment. This is the first step toward mind control.

Mish Michaels isn't alone: Many meteorologists question climate change science. They observe changes in the atmosphere like astronomers study the stars, analyzing everything from air pressure to water vapor and poring over computer models to arrive at a forecast. But for all their scrutiny of weather data, many meteorologists part ways with their colleagues — climate scientists who study longer atmospheric trends — in one crucial respect: whether human activity is causing climate change. Meteorologists are more skeptical than climate scientists, and that division was underscored by the recent departure of Mish Michaels from WGBH News.

The hypocrisy of climate change advocates. For those of you who don't know what a climate denier is, it means you either challenge, question or flat-out reject the idea that the planet is warming due to human activity. In the scientific world and in the world of international liberal groupthink (but I repeat myself), this is blasphemy. Should you remotely doubt the dubious models, unrealized dire predictions, changing goal posts or flawed data related to climate science, you are not just stupid according to these folks, but you are on par with those who deny the Holocaust.

On eve of Trump, Obama's Energy Department announces new policy to protect scientists. Speaking at the National Press Club Wednesday, outgoing Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a new "scientific integrity" policy for an agency recently wracked by concerns about how an administration led by President-elect Donald Trump will treat employees who worked on climate change and other sensitive energy-related issues. "It's part of establishing the environment that allows scientists to do their work, to stay with us, and to recruit new people," Moniz said in announcing the new policy. Moniz, a physicist, gave an example of his own role in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal. "Seven of our laboratories were providing near real-time support to our negotiating positions in a highly technical negotiation," Moniz said, "and I certainly needed correct answers, stated clearly, as opposed to anything that somebody may have thought was the answer I wanted. That would not be helpful."

Enviros Want the Tillerson Hearings to be a Public Trial on Exxon's Climate History. One of the groups involved in a year-long crusade against Exxon Mobil wants confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state pick to be a public trial on the company's history of climate research. Peter Frumhoff, the director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), told reporters Wednesday [12/28/2016] that Rex Tillerson's hearings should be devoted to holding Exxon responsible for hiding years of climate research. He also said that Exxon's policies under Tillerson's leadership showed the company only supports policy ideas like carbon taxes when it's expedient for its bottom line.

The D.C. Court of Appeals Undermines the First Amendment. Yesterday [12/22/2016], the D.C Court of Appeals issued its decision in Michael Mann's defamation case against us and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The court dismissed Mann's claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and also dismissed his claims based on an open letter written by our editor-in-chief Rich Lowry taking Dr. Mann to task for threatening to file this bullying lawsuit in the first place. At the same time, the court refused to dismiss the defamation claims against NR and CEI based on blog posts by Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg respectively criticizing Mann's infamous "hockey stick" graph, which is widely touted as providing lead-pipe cinch scientific proof of man-made global warming.

Congress: Obama Admin Fired Top Scientist to Advance Climate Change Plans. A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda, according to a new report that alleges the administration ordered top officials to obstruct Congress in order to forward this agenda. Rep. Lamar Smith (R., Texas), chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, released a wide-ranging report on Tuesday that shows how senior Obama administration officials retaliated against a leading scientist and plotted ways to block a congressional inquiry surrounding key research into the impact of radiation.

Congress: Obama Fired Scientist to Advance "Climate" Agenda. The Obama administration fired a top scientist, intimidated other staff, censored important information from Congress for political reasons, and waged "a reckless and calculated attack on the legislative process itself," U.S. lawmakers concluded in a blistering new report about Obama's scandal-plagued Department of Energy. All of it was done in order to advance Obama's controversial "climate-change" agenda, according to congressional investigators. It is time for some serious changes in management at the U.S. Department of Energy, members of Congress declared. But even that is not nearly enough to remedy the damage unleashed by Obama via the unconstitutional bureaucracy.

The DOE vs. Ugly Reality. Over at the Washington Post, Chris Mooney and the usual suspects are seriously alarmed by a memo sent out by the Transition Team at the Department of Energy. They describe it in breathless terms in an article entitled "Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings". [...] Oh — you mean like say the Attorneys General of a bunch of states holding up their lists of known "denier" organizations and tacitly urging the public to go after them? You mean like government officials of a variety of stripes ranting about how "deniers" should be brought to trial or otherwise penalized?

Chris Cuomo Sneers: Climate Change Skepticism Like Opposing Interracial Marriage. New Day co-anchor Chris Cuomo on Thursday continued the media freak out over Donald Trump picking a climate change doubter to run the Environmental Protection Agency. He even outrageously compared those with similar beliefs to past opposition of interracial marriage. While discussing the appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the EPA, Cuomo ranted to CNN co-anchor Alisyn Camerota, "People thought the world was flat." He continued, "People thought blacks and whites shouldn't marry. People thought blacks shouldn't be equal. That doesn't mean you accept it as fact as a leader."

Fed judge rules AG Healey must appear in Texas for Exxon deposition. A federal judge has rebuffed an attempt by Attorney General Maura Healey to avoid being questioned in Texas by attorneys for Exxon Mobil, setting the stage for an extraordinarily rare deposition of a sitting AG. U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade for the Northern District of Texas issued a brief order yesterday simply stating he was denying Healey's request "after careful consideration." He did not elaborate. In April, Healey launched her probe into whether the $171-billion Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp. has deceived consumers and investors about the potential environmental hazards of fossil fuel. If Healey prevails, Exxon Mobil would be forced to disclose records dating back to 1976 on what it knew about global warming and climate change.

Court orders New York AG Schneiderman to turn over climate change secrecy pact. A court has ordered New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to turn over documents related to a multistate confidentiality agreement on climate change investigations. New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Henry F. Zwack ruled that Mr. Schneiderman has 30 days to comply with the Competitive Enterprise Institute's May 5 request under the state's Freedom of Information Law. The Democratic prosecutor, who launched last year a probe into ExxonMobil, has fought the request for any pact made with other states or certain environmental activists, arguing that such documents are exempt from disclosure.

Five GOP Senators Demand AG Lynch Stop Investigating Climate Skeptics. Showing a stunning disregard for the First Amendment last month U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged the Justice Department has asked the FBI to look into whether the disbelieving of the unproven climate change hypothesis by climate skeptics merits prosecution for fraud. In other words the Obama government was trying to scare skeptics into silence. Thankfully some in our legislature have the guts to respond.

Dr. Rotunda's Testimony to House Science, Space & Technology Committee. For decades, state and federal governments have assured us with the same certainty that [New York Attorney General Eric T.] Schneiderman has about global warming, that the prosecutors' scientific and forensic analyses are trustworthy. Government prosecutors (like Mr. Schneiderman) routinely introduce this forensic evidence into court to convict people and take away their liberty, fortune, and life. We know now that the science was too often wrong. [...] The New York attorney general has opposed congressional subpoenas trying to get to the truth as to whether he is part of a conspiracy to abuse government power and to silence those who question man's role in global warming.

16 Times Democrats Tried To Prosecute Their Opponents. [#7] Climate Change Deniers: Leftist TV actor Bill Nye "the science guy" said in April that those who are skeptical of so-called "climate change" should probably go to jail. Nye isn't the only liberal who wanted to lock up those skeptical of climate change. Robert Kennedy said he "wish[ed] there were a law you could punish them with." California Attorney General Kamala Harris, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch have all expressed similar sentiments.

DiCaprio: Climate Deniers 'Should Not Be Allowed to Hold Public Office'. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio sat on the White House lawn on Oct. 3, and proclaimed that anyone who doesn't not believe in climate change "should not be allowed to hold public office." "The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over, if you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office," DiCaprio stated at the livestreamed White House South By South Lawn (SXSL) event. The invited crowd responded with cheers.

Testimony regarding the Climate Change Inquisition. First, it is a violation of free speech, injurious to scientific method, and just plain wrong for the Government to threaten scientists and entities (whether corporation, foundations, or any other entity) with criminal prosecutions because they do not embrace a belief in human-caused global warming. What the Government is doing now is chilling scientists who work in this area. [...] If this Committee's investigation shows that one or more State Attorneys General are chilling scientific investigations into global warming, the Committee should offer legislation to increase or redirect federal funds in order to counterbalance this harassment.

The Chevron Shakedown threatens to turn Canada's legal system into a disgrace. On Monday [9/12/2016], a court in Canada will gavel into session and hear complaints from the group of Ecuadorian plaintiffs and their American environmentalist enablers who have been repeatedly been found to have engaged in massive fraud by American courts. The Chevron Shakedown, which we've been covering here for years, has moved to the Great White North to see if the pickpockets who have been trying to fleece the energy giant for billions of dollars can fare any better there. Not only is this a distasteful process for the concept of justice in general, but it holds particular dangers for the Canadians.

GOP Lawmaker Calls Obama's Climate Agreement A Work Of 'Science Fiction'. Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith told reporters that President Barack Obama's decision to ratify the climate agreement Saturday [9/3/2016] in China was a strategic move to stifle public scrutiny.

Professors advise students to drop class if they question climate change. The professors, who are team-teaching the fall online course Medical Humanities in the Digital Age, issued the memo after some students expressed concerns about the first online lecture on climate change, according to the College Fix, which obtained a copy of the email. "The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring," the professors said. "We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the 'other side' of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course."

Professors tell students: Drop class if you dispute man-made climate change. Three professors co-teaching an online course called "Medical Humanities in the Digital Age" at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students via email that man-made climate change is not open for debate, and those who think otherwise have no place in their course. "The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring. We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the 'other side' of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course," states the email, a copy of which was provided to The College Fix by a student in the course.

Conservative think tank sues AG Schneiderman over Exxon probe records. The Competitive Enterprise Institute today [8/31/2016] filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, seeking copies of any agreements his office signed that would protect internal communications stemming from his investigation of ExxonMobil's climate change record. CEI's suit in New York state court comes after Schneiderman denied the conservative think tank's May 5 request under the state's freedom of information law for any common interest agreements that his office reached with other state AGs involved in his climate oversight efforts, as well as seven individuals and green groups also involved in Exxon probes.

New York AG's War Against 'Climate' Opponents Is Running Out Of Gas. [Scroll down] Just this week, Columbia Law Professor Merritt Fox wrote in the National Law Review to express his concerns, noting "It is really about the attorney general acting as a champion in the fight against global warming." Regardless what instinct took over, these emails show Schneiderman quickly going from a "coalition" of 17 AGs one day to being almost completely alone. Eric Schneiderman has misled the public into believing he led an investigation widely supported among his peers. [...] In reality, and particularly after reflection, most of his recruits proved too wary of hitching their wagons to his star, seeing the "wild card" might prove to be a joker.

Green Activists, State AGs Collude Against Scientists, Nonprofit Groups. E-mails uncovered by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI) show several state attorneys general (AGs) who have threatened prosecution of scientists and nonprofit organizations active in the climate change debate had collaborated with anti-fossil-fuel lobbyists to shape their legal and public relations strategies. At a March 29 press conference hosted by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore participating, a coalition of 16 Democratic attorneys general and Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker, an independent, announced they were actively considering legal action against companies, organizations, and individuals who have challenged the Obama administration's claim humans are causing catastrophic climate change.

AG Schneiderman Changes Tactics With Exxon Investigation. Faced with overwhelming opposition from legal experts, mainstream editorial boards across the country, and even the AGs his climate coalition, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is completely changing his tune and attempting to reboot the reason behind his investigation into ExxonMobil. After months of the #ExxonKnew campaign telling us that these investigations are happening because the company "knew" about climate change in the 1970s and 1980s and then "lied" about it (and as Schneiderman continues to refuse to comply with public records laws) Schneiderman is now telling the New York Times that Exxon's past statements are not the focus of his investigation at all.

Witch hunt: Dem Attorney General [Knew] Global Warming Investigation Likely Illegal, Says Law Expert. A legal expert in financial law said the Democrat-lead probe targeting ExxonMobil is likely illegal and a ruse to paint those investigating the company as champions "in the fight against global warming." The Exxon subpoena into the company's knowledge about internal climate change reports is an abuse of extraordinary powers. It allowed attorneys general (AGs) to subpoena private documents without either obtaining a court order or filing a complaint, Merritt Fox, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, wrote Monday at National Law Journal.

Physicist who foresees global cooling says other scientists tried to 'silence' her. A physicist who foresees a 30-year period of global cooling says other climatologists have tried to "silence" her latest research on solar cycles. Valentina Zharkova, a professor at Northumbria University at Newcastle in the United Kingdom, said the Royal Astronomical Society received requests to withdraw a press release on her team's latest research pointing to a significant drop in solar activity by mid-century.

Legal Group Claims Exxon Inquisition Is Meant To Protect Obama's Climate Rules. The probes against Exxon Mobil and others by a slew of Democratic attorneys general were done to protect the Obama administration's climate rules, a conservative legal group said Tuesday [8/9/2016]. A letter from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller shows that the group of attorneys general investigations were meant to defend federal environmental regulations, according to the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a conservative legal group based in Washington, D.C.

Secret Deal Among AGs to Prosecute Climate Change 'Deniers' Challenged in Court. By signing a "secrecy pact" with fellow Democrat attorneys general preparing to prosecute climate change skeptics, Rhode Island's top law enforcement officer jeopardized free speech rights and government transparency laws, according to two legal organizations that have taken him to court. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin's tactics in supporting President Barack Obama's climate change policy violate state law guaranteeing access to public records, the two groups, Energy and Environment Legal Institute and Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, claim in their lawsuit.

State AGs Tried to Hide Climate Probe Geared to Punish Fossil Fuel Companies. Eighteen liberal state attorneys general signed a pact in May to keep a joint investigation of Exxon Mobil Corp. and attempts to punish other fossil fuel companies over climate change issues secret, according to documents obtained by a free market think tank. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute obtained a copy of the agreement through public-records litigation with the District of Columbia, which is a part of the pact along with 15 states. The 18 attorneys general, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D.), are fighting climate change by pursuing "investigations of representations made by companies to investors, consumers, and the public regarding fossil fuels, renewable energy, and climate change."

Global Warming Skepticism is Not Fraud . Professor Robert C. Post, dean of the Yale Law School, appeared recently in the Washington Post defending investigations by state attorneys general into ExxonMobil and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), saying such investigations are standard operating procedure for addressing possible fraud. He dismissed the protests of the targets of these investigations, saying, "It is grossly irresponsible to invoke the First Amendment in such contexts." [...] If belief in the "consensus" meme is in fact driving Prof. Post and the attorneys general, then the whole premise of this litigation is false. Because in fact, there is no consensus, but instead a lively academic debate taking place.

New York AG refuses to comply with U.S. House subpoena on Exxon probe. The top state prosecutors in New York and Massachusetts said on Tuesday [7/26/2016] they will refuse to comply with a subpoena from U.S. congressmen for details on their investigations into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors on climate change risks. The moves by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey are the latest in the political and legislative fight over Exxon Mobil and investigations on whether the oil company knowingly misled shareholders and the public on climate change.

We Thought We Were Free. [Scroll down] For instance, last week 17 of the nation's 18 Democratic attorneys general calling themselves "AGs United for Clean Power," announced that they will be targeting any and all companies that oppose the myth that is "climate change." Speaking at a press conference on March 29, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced, "The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real." He went on to say that if companies are committing fraud by "lying" about the dangers of climate change, they will "pursue them to the fullest extent of the law."

2010-2016: The Era of Political Repression in America. [Scroll down] A typical example of designating the thought centers as targets for climate alarmism is an infamous "study" by Robert Brulle, which was analyzed recently in connection with the misconduct of the Leftist AGs. The "study" was published in January 2013, indicating it was conceived in 2011. The target list was created by applying the opinions of Greenpeace and the Center for Media and Democracy to a combination of old lists, some going back as far as 1997. Most targets had no substantial link to the climate debates at all. Even worse, the hit list included all the top conservative and libertarian think tanks, without a single exception: the American Enterprise Institute, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Mercatus Center, Pacific Research Institute, and Reason Foundation. The frenzied Attorneys General seem to work off an even broader list.

When bullies get pushback. AGs United for Clean Power, a coalition of 16 Democratic state attorneys general plus the Virgin Islands' Claude E. Walker, announced on March 29 that they would use government power to throttle climate change dissent. Mr. Walker issued subpoenas to Exxon Mobil seeking communications with more than 100 scientists, universities and think tanks. They took a cue from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, who suggested last year that civil racketeering law could be used against energy companies like Exxon Mobil that allegedly suppress data indicating that fossil fuels cause global warming.

AGs subpoenaed over prosecuting climate change skeptics. The chairman of the House Science Committee issued subpoenas Wednesday [7/13/2016] to two Democratic attorneys general over their pursuit of climate change dissenters after the prosecutors had refused to respond to the panel's previous requests for information. Chairman Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, announced that subpoenas have been sent to New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, as well as eight environmental groups, related to their "coordinated efforts to deprive companies, nonprofit organizations, scientists and scholars of their First Amendment rights." "The attorneys general have appointed themselves to decide what is valid and what is invalid regarding climate change," Mr. Smith said at a press conference with other committee Republicans. "The attorneys general are pursuing a political agenda at the expense of scientists' right to free speech."

Senator Whitehouse goes Full Conspiracy Theory on "Climate Denial". Senator Whitehouse has unveiled his "web of denial", a vast conspiracy theory about why his side is losing the climate debate. [...] Whitehouse's conspiracy theory reminds me of some of the worst excesses of the anti-communist era, in which fantasies about shadowy conspiracies were used to ruin