Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Wisconsin Professor: "Climate-change deniers deserve punishment"

Dismissal of well-established climate science has parallels to decades of debate over tobacco use and its effects on health. Tobacco companies long denied any causal relation between smoking and disease even when their own studies showed the opposite to be true.
Similarly, some fossil fuel companies for decades publicly rejected established climate science and the role of burning fossil fuels in anthropogenic climate change while their internal studies confirmed both.
The tobacco companies eventually paid a steep price for their actions. In 1999, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against them, charging that they "engaged in and executed" a "massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public, including consumers of cigarettes," in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. (read the whole thing)

7 comments:

deborah said...

Nothing is static. Ask the people of the ME and Europe.

chickelit said...

Oil companies represent and control an enormous source of wealth. It's understandable that some are envious and want to transfer/redistribute that very wealth according to their own whims. It doesn't account for what happens to oil-based, social agendas though. See Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, for example.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

You lost me at "Wisconsin Professor". I knew immediately that the article would be full of leftist ignorant drivel.

Calypso Facto said...

I think they pulled the page (or the link I broken): "We cannot locate the link to the page you requested."

Amartel said...

The infinite leftist urge to punish opposing viewpoints.

Trooper York said...

So true Dust Bunny Queen. When I hear the words "Wisconsin Professor" I know it is going to be a big bag of bullshit and I ignore it.

Methadras said...

What more proof do you need that these Radical Marxist Progressive Collectivists (RMPC) are nothing more than the tyrants they truly are. Squelching free speech under RICO statues when it is them that are in violation RICO statues for conspiring together to punish dissenters of their proposed ecological dogma. It is really time to start eliminating these people. They are no better than ISIS in their theological rigidity.