Democrats enshrine prosecution of climate change skeptics in platform

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: AMERICAN THINKER

URL: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/democrats_enshrine_prosecution_of_climate_change_skeptics_in_platform.html

by: Rick Moran


The Democratic party has officially become the anti-free speech party by adopting a plank in their party platform that promises to prosecute climate change skeptics.

It was one thing when Democratic state attorneys general banded together to "investigate" skeptics. But now, the entire party has gotten behind the most vigorous assault on free expression since World War II.

From the Daily Caller:

A panel of Democrats voted Friday to approve a final draft of the party’s platform to promote “Progressive Democratic Values,” which apparently includes investigating energy companies who “misled” shareholders about global warming.

“Another joint proposal calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change was also adopted by unanimous consent,” according to the Democratic National Convention’s website.

The drafting committee, led by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, has decided to back ongoing investigations by mostly Democratic state attorneys general into ExxonMobil’s stance on global warming.

Currently, AGs from California, Massachusetts, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands have launched investigations of Exxon, and at least two AGs have demanded records on conservative think tanks and scientists skeptical of global warming. Such targeting has only fueled calls that these investigations are an attack on free speech.

New York AG Eric Schneiderman was the first to launch an investigation into Exxon, based on reporting from eco-left wing reporters at InsideClimate News and Columbia University. Schneiderman hosted a conference in March with other AGs to announce more investigations into Exxon.

Republican lawmakers and AGs have pushed back, calling the investigations into Exxon and think tanks an assault on free speech.

Some Republican AGs recently warned their liberal counterparts that if skeptics can be investigated for misrepresenting global warming, alarmists can be as well.

The AG's pushing this extortion scheme are saying that a couple of memos from the 1970's when few scientists were working on climate change and some meetings where the possibility of climate change was discussed in the 1990's constitutes "fraud." But whatever "evidence" they've uncovered is a smokescreen. As Greenpeace points out, the Democrats want government to go after fossil fuel companies for the big payday.

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[goatprairie]

Climate changes all the time. The extent, if any, of human involvement in climate change is debatable. That "97% of all scientists believe in anthropogenic climate change i.e. man-made global warming " is a myth. There are thousands of scientists who either completely doubt AGW or believe man's involvement is too small to cause problems.
This is just typical liberals demonstrating the inner fascist inside most of them.

[SirLinksALot]

That "97% of all scientists believe in anthropogenic climate change i.e. man-made global warming " is a myth. There are thousands of scientists who either completely doubt AGW or believe man's involvement is too small to cause problems.

When Albert Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, '100 Scientists Against Einstein', he replied: "Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough."

[jmyrlefuller]

Climate changes all the time. The extent, if any, of human involvement in climate change is debatable. That "97% of all scientists believe in anthropogenic climate change i.e. man-made global warming " is a myth. There are thousands of scientists who either completely doubt AGW or believe man's involvement is too small to cause problems.
This is just typical liberals demonstrating the inner fascist inside most of them.

Climate change mythology is built on four basic premises: 1. The Earth is warming; 2. Human activity is causing the warming; 3. If left unchecked, the negative consequence of the warming will far outweigh the positive and cause global chaos and destruction, and 4. The actions we can take as humans to stop or mitigate the warming will have far greater positive consequences than negative. In order from 1 to 4, each successive premise is less and less credible. 1. We can observe the Earth is, in general, in a warming trend, albeit one that is slowing as of late. 2. Most science has determined that our warming effects are also counteracted by cooling effects such as particulate matter. 3. Our planet has historically had much more thriving life at temperatures 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today, and we're upset about a 2-degree warmth. 4. The proposed counteracting measures will have a devastating impact on people's abilities to live comfortably, either for lack of fuel or for economic disruption.

[MajorClay]

Sick

[goatprairie]

Climate change mythology is built on four basic premises: 1. The Earth is warming; 2. Human activity is causing the warming; 3. If left unchecked, the negative consequence of the warming will far outweigh the positive and cause global chaos and destruction, and 4. The actions we can take as humans to stop or mitigate the warming will have far greater positive consequences than negative. In order from 1 to 4, each successive premise is less and less credible. 1. We can observe the Earth is, in general, in a warming trend, albeit one that is slowing as of late. 2. Most science has determined that our warming effects are also counteracted by cooling effects such as particulate matter. 3. Our planet has historically had much more thriving life at temperatures 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today, and we're upset about a 2-degree warmth. 4. The proposed counteracting measures will have a devastating impact on people's abilities to live comfortably, either for lack of fuel or for economic disruption.

My doubts about the Warmists began almost immediately after their crusade began. They were automatically (and still are) predicting disaster with warmer weather. Why was that? Certainly, living up in the northern part of the U.S. I'd love warmer winter weather.  And stats prove that more lives are lost due to cold weather than from hot weather.
 Many parts of the earth frozen most of the time would be available for agriculture. And people would probably use less fossil fuels...especially in the wintertime.
So I suspected the agenda of the Warmists was something more than wishing hot weather disaster wouldn't happen. I strongly suspected many of the Warmists were Marxists hoping to destroy capitalism and the U.S.

[goatprairie]

Climate change mythology is built on four basic premises: 1. The Earth is warming; 2. Human activity is causing the warming; 3. If left unchecked, the negative consequence of the warming will far outweigh the positive and cause global chaos and destruction, and 4. The actions we can take as humans to stop or mitigate the warming will have far greater positive consequences than negative. In order from 1 to 4, each successive premise is less and less credible. 1. We can observe the Earth is, in general, in a warming trend, albeit one that is slowing as of late. 2. Most science has determined that our warming effects are also counteracted by cooling effects such as particulate matter. 3. Our planet has historically had much more thriving life at temperatures 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today, and we're upset about a 2-degree warmth. 4. The proposed counteracting measures will have a devastating impact on people's abilities to live comfortably, either for lack of fuel or for economic disruption.

. Our planet has historically had much more thriving life at temperatures 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today, and we're upset about a 2-degree warmth.

Great point. If warmer weather meant mass extinction ala the dinosaurs, how did we all survive after that warmer weather from the past?