Monday, October 09, 2006

spiked | Global warming: the chilling effect on free speech

spiked | Global warming: the chilling effect on free speech: "Whoever thought that serious commentators would want it made illegal to have a row about the weather? One Australian columnist has proposed outlawing ‘climate change denial’. ‘David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial’, she wrote. ‘Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence. It is a crime against humanity, after all.’ (1) Others have suggested that climate change deniers should be put on trial in the future, Nuremberg-style, and made to account for their attempts to cover up the ‘global warming…Holocaust’ (2)."

5 comments:

Syl said...

Australia has a lot of really really weird moonbats. Well, they have kangaroos and wombats and all kinds of weird creatures, why not weird moonbats.

Luther said...

I realize I am one clichéd SOB. With perhaps not an original thought in my head. But we are in a fight. I am not sure as to the victor.

truepeers said...

Sometimes there is a knowing authoritarianism in green activism. The posters advertising George Monbiot’s new book are targeted at various celebrities and businessmen judged to be living less than ethical green lives, with the words ‘GEORGE IS WATCHING YOU’ (12). It comes straight out of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Some institutions employ Orwellian doublespeak when they use the word ‘facts’. They are not talking about submitting theories or hypotheses or evidence for public debate and possibly public approval – they are talking about using ‘facts’ precisely to stifle public debate and change the way people think and behave.

-isn't interesting how when the left give up God and have to invent their own lousy substitutes, they still revel in making other people into devils and witches, with all the skill of a medieval bishop? The primitive nature of this ideology is scary indeed.

However, this is the first time I've really noticed there is a movement to outlaw "climate change denial". Regarding this, can someone tell me if those who believe there is some warming going on, but who doubt it is human or CO2 induced, are still placed in the camp of the Nazis?

Rick Ballard said...

Knuck,

If you read through the comments on this post over at Greg Mankiw's blog you'll see blind acceptance of "the problem" by a herd of Harvard students whose sole concern appears to be the correct method of taxing air. I know that economics begins with a false assumption but those folks are setting new standards for gullibility.

There is a logic to outlawing discussion on a subject just as there is a logic to believeing an assumption based upon false "hope". Dystopias aren't created in a single day, yaknow.

truepeers said...

Thanks for the links, Knuck. I have a new motto, "Sod off swampy to the melted skifields(?)" :)