'Democrat' communists want to persecute 'deniers'

I have recently had to get in touch with various "Democrat" – or, rather, communist – propaganda campaign groups to tell them to remove me from their hate-speech mailing lists.

One of these poisonous groups, which claims close links to Mr. Obama, has been spluttering and snarling about how "climate deniers" – the communists' hate-filled term for those of us who publish peer-reviewed research questioning the party line peddled by the profiteers of doom – should be put on trial, locked up and even executed for our thought-crimes.

After 18 years with no global warming at all, one of the most pressing scientific questions now facing climatologists is where all the hot air generated by Al Gore has gone. It has left no mark on the global temperature record.

Yet Gore is now adding his own voice to the demands that "climate deniers" should be put on trial and then punished for daring to question "settled science."

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Al-Haytham, the mathematician, philosopher and astronomer of 11^th-century Iraq who brought the scientific method to the East, said this: "The seeker after truth does not place his faith in any mere consensus, however widespread or venerable: Instead, he checks and checks again. The road to the truth is long and hard, but that is the road we must follow."

And the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says this: "Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech." No ifs. No buts. Even if Gore were right that "the science is settled" – and he knows it is not, for he got a nasty surprise when the High Court in London ordered the Department of Education to circulate 77 pages of corrective guidance before it was allowed to show Gore's mawkish sci-fi comedy horror movie in schools – it is beyond the power of Congress to act as Al Gore and many others before him have demanded.

Whether the climate communists like it or not – and they don't – those of us who have been proven right as their dismal climate models have been proven wrong have and will continue to exercise our constitutionally guaranteed freedom to follow the road to the truth, however long and hard it may be.

I shall continue to do battle with the communists who demand that I and others like me be silenced, just at the point where it is becoming clear that it is we and not the extremist left who have been right all along about the climate.

In two European countries – Scotland and Austria – calling us "climate deniers," with the malevolent and deliberate overtones of comparison with Holocaust denial that the term carries with it, is an imprisonable criminal offense.

A couple of years ago, I was able to use this law against professor Parncutt at the University of Graz in Austria, who had come out with a blog posting demanding that "climate deniers" should be tried and executed for their thought crimes. I wrote to him, reminded him of the law and demanded – and got, within 24 hours – an unreserved apology and retraction, which was swiftly followed by a statement from the university dissociating itself from the professor's hate speech.

In the United States, the constitutional guarantee of free speech cuts both ways. Mr. Gore and his fellow climate communists – including the unspeakable Michael Mann, fabricator of the scientifically inaccurate "hockey stick" graph that falsely purported to abolish the medieval warm period, and James Hansen, formerly of NASA, who have both demanded that skeptics be tried for "high crimes against humanity" – are as free to demand our trial, sentencing, imprisonment and execution as their Nazi ideological predecessors were during the early Hitler years.

If you think my recalling the demands of Nazi supporters for the execution of their opponents is inapposite or unreasonable, think again. It was precisely because no one stood up to those demands that Hitler got away with exterminating 6 million Jews. It is best to speak out angrily now, while we are still free to do so.

Here, then, is a list of just some of the hate-speech statements made by climate Nazis in the past decade, nearly all of them without any adverse comment in the Marxstream news media:

2005: Margo Kingston, in Australia's Daily Briefing, said, "Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offense. It is a crime against humanity, after all."

2006: Ellen Goodman, in the Boston Globe,said, "Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers."

2006: Dr. "Bill" McGuire, professor of "climate change impacts" at University College, London, said, "We have Holocaust deniers; we have climate change deniers. And, to be honest, I don't think there's a great deal of difference."

2006: The Grist.com website called for Nuremberg-style trials for climate skeptics. The article was later retracted.

2006: Heidi Cullen featured Dave Roberts, who said online, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards – some sort of climate Nuremberg." The remark was not later retracted.

2006: Mark Lynas, a "green" columnist for The Guardianand other communist outlets, wrote, "I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine and disease in decades ahead. I put [their climate change denial] in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial – except that this time the Holocaust is yet to come, and we still have time to avoid it. Those who try to ensure we don't will one day have to answer for their crimes."

2007: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at global warming skeptics, saying, "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." The penalty for treason is death.

2007: Yvo de Boer, secretary general of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said ignoring the urgency of global warming would be "criminally irresponsible."

2007: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a U.N. special climate envoy, said, "It's completely immoral even to question" the U.N.'s scientific opinion on climate.

2008: David Suzuki, a Canadian environmentalist, said government leaders skeptical of global warming should be "thrown into jail."

2008: Alex Lockwood, a British journalism professor, said writers questioning global warming should be banned.

2009: A writer at Talking Points Memo said global warming "deniers" should be executed or jailed. He later retracted this remark.

2010: James Lovelock, inventor of the "Gaia hypothesis," told the Guardian: "I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while."

2010: Dr. Donald Brown, professor of "climate ethics" at Penn State University, declared that skeptics, who had caused "a 25-year delay in acting to stop climate change" may be guilty of a "new crime against humanity." The penalty for crimes against humanity is death.

2011: An Australian journalist said climate skeptics should be "branded" with cattle irons to mark them out from the rest of the population.

2011: Another Australian journalist said skeptics should be "gassed."

2012: Dr. Donald Brown, professor of "climate ethics" at Widener University School of Law, again declared that skeptics may be guilty of a "new crime against humanity." The penalty for crimes against humanity is death.

2014: Dr. Lawrence Torcello, assistant philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, wrote that people who disagreed with him should be sent to jail.

2014: The Gawker.com website said: "Those denialists should face jail. They should face fines. They should face lawsuits from the classes of people whose lives and livelihoods are most threatened by denialist tactics."

2015: Katie Herzog at Grist.com on Jan. 16 wrote: "If this planet is to survive the scourge that is humanity, we all have to stop reproducing. Yes, all of us. In that spirit, I propose we … sterilize every human male on his 10^th birthday."

2015: A comment on the webpage of the Brisbane Times about a category 5 cyclone along the Queensland coast on Feb. 19 and 20: "These type of weather events could happen further south in future and be more intense with global warming. … [I]f anyone has to suffer out of this one I hope it is a climate change denier, if anyone."

Now, you may think that all of these calls for "climate deniers" to be treated like Holocaust deniers and Holocaust victims are mere rodomontade. If so, think again. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at an annual meeting of almost 200 signatory states in Durban in 2011, demanded the establishment of an "international climate court" to hold Western nations accountable for their "historical climate debt."

The proposal was hastily dropped when I exposed it. But not one of the 2,000 journalists attending that conference had bothered to report this or any of the other daft proposals in the Durban draft, which suggested cutting the CO2 in the air by half – which would have extinguished nearly all life on Earth.

Now the proposal for an international climate court is back – at the moment only Western nations can be hauled before it. But it is only a matter of time before the growing chorus of climate Nazis demands that it should have the right to persecute individual "climate deniers."

That will mean repealing the First Amendment. Mr. Gore seems eager to do so. How many other climate Nazis are there in the "Democratic"Party? Too many for comfort, I reckon.

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