Climate scientists face death threats, organized harassment

[Risottia]

Fixed.


It's another proof that Europe is full of pinko sissy athiest babyeating COMMIENAZI BRONY ANTICHRISTIAN M00ZLEM TERRORIST CLIMATIST UNAMERICAN FAG ENABLORZ!

Er.

Yeah.

...What's a fag enabler?
It sounds vaguely kinky.

Iirc is something American right-wing nutters good and true Amercian Xtians fap to.

[Johz]

If a scientist were able to disprove climate change, can you imagine how much money they'd make?
Man, SOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo much money.
Fame too.

But they have! And they were HUSHED up by the MEDIA And the Scientific Community, which is like the Illuminati, but worse, because at least the Illuminati supports pro-business policies.

[Norsklow]

No one's who likes SUVs or Air Conditioners in every room is going to buy climate change until the water touches their toes.
Which it will - eventually.

[Ifreann]

With all the anti-science sentiment in the US and the wide availability of nutjobs it's not terribly surprising.

[Norsklow]

True enough. Just be aware that the anti-science sentiment does not come from one single source.

Science used to have good news to tell, but these days it is the messenger of Bad News.
'Science' didn't create the Bad News, it merely reports it.
But that doesn't stop people from thinking that the best solution is simply to shoot the reporter.

[Druidville]

Remember, the consensus once was the earth was flat.

[Ovisterra]

I'm disgusted but not terribly surprised. If you say something that people don't like, they get pissed off. Some of them are stupid enough to act stupidly upon their anger.

[Mavorpen]

I'm disgusted but not terribly surprised. If you say something that people don't like, they get pissed off. Some of them are stupid enough to act stupidly upon their anger.

Ever watched Richard Dawkins read his hate mail? It's hilarious.

[Ovisterra]

I'm disgusted but not terribly surprised. If you say something that people don't like, they get pissed off. Some of them are stupid enough to act stupidly upon their anger.

Ever watched Richard Dawkins read his hate mail? It's hilarious.

That sounds hilarious. I love Dawkins.

[Mavorpen]

Ever watched Richard Dawkins read his hate mail? It's hilarious.

That sounds hilarious. I love Dawkins.

It is.

The last one had me laughing so much I couldn't breathe.

[Avenio]

Remember, the consensus once was the earth was flat.

*cough*

[Ovisterra]

That sounds hilarious. I love Dawkins.

It is.

The last one had me laughing so much I couldn't breathe.

That was awesome. Listening to him pronounce all the grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and curse words was one of the best bits.

[Mavorpen]

It is.

The last one had me laughing so much I couldn't breathe.

That was awesome. Listening to him pronounce all the grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and curse words was one of the best bits.

Watching it again, I just realized Ann Coulter was one of the ones who sent him an e-mail. That makes it even more hilarious.

[Fluffy Coyotes]

Fuck, it wasn't even slang. It was a commonly-used definition of a commonly-used English word.

i'm thinking of the second half of what you are, i think. 'hide the decline' rather than 'trick'.

Well, as far as wording itself goes. Another suspicious element is the push to delete emails.

No one's who likes SUVs or Air Conditioners in every room is going to buy climate change until the water touches their toes.
Which it will - eventually.

Stop making this out to be about polluters. I am more environmentally conscious than the average person, and even I doubt climate change because I don't doubt that deterring pollution would give the climate scientists a powerful incentive for dishonesty.

[Fnordgasm 5]

i'm thinking of the second half of what you are, i think. 'hide the decline' rather than 'trick'.

Well, as far as wording itself goes. Another suspicious element is the push to delete emails.

No one's who likes SUVs or Air Conditioners in every room is going to buy climate change until the water touches their toes.
Which it will - eventually.

Stop making this out to be about polluters. I am more environmentally conscious than the average person, and even I doubt climate change because I don't doubt that deterring pollution would give the climate scientists a powerful incentive for dishonesty.

So the vast majority of climate scientists could be being dishonest? Shit, why haven't they been found out yet? The people need to know!

[The Lone Alliance]

Of course they're mad in the US, if climate change is real then it means THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SUFFER to either change their ways or when it really gets bad.

The older crowd, most who are deniers, don't give a damn because they'll be dead before the worst happens, meanwhile religious nuts thing it's a GOOD THING because it'll bring the "Second Coming" of Christ.

Mix in the polluting industries, the oil industry, Rich people in general, poor ignorant people who get spoon fed the 'facts' who don't believe in science because they got Fs on their report cards.

[Empire of Narnia]

People have been sent death threats for insulting Twilight and Justin Bieber. It's no surprise the scientists got a few angry letters....

[Selsada]

Damn, the petroleum lobby petrol sure ramped up fast.
Maybe because cars manufacturers start to actually sell significative amount of electric cars.

[Trotskylvania]

It has been sad to see my parents' generation get more stupid, and more out of touch the older they get.

[Norsklow]

No one's who likes SUVs or Air Conditioners in every room is going to buy climate change until the water touches their toes.
Which it will - eventually.

Stop making this out to be about polluters. I am more environmentally conscious than the average person, and even I doubt climate change because I don't doubt that deterring pollution would give the climate scientists a powerful incentive for dishonesty.

A I consider it to be about poluters
B:I consider the desired solution as being tough on consumerism, and punitive taxation on energy use.

[Fluffy Coyotes]

Stop making this out to be about polluters. I am more environmentally conscious than the average person, and even I doubt climate change because I don't doubt that deterring pollution would give the climate scientists a powerful incentive for dishonesty.

A I consider it to be about poluters
B:I consider the desired solution as being tough on consumerism, and punitive taxation on energy use.

We should do that anyway, if only because such energy is limited and we should be saving it for when we might need it more. But this is about climate change itself, not the otherwise pragmatic value of solutions to it.

[Free Soviets]

i'm thinking of the second half of what you are, i think. 'hide the decline' rather than 'trick'.

Well, as far as wording itself goes. Another suspicious element is the push to delete emails.

given that people actually hacked into the archives of their private email accounts in order to smear them with lies and blatant misrepresentations, this doesn't even seem like a particularly paranoid thing to do. personally, i'd declare correspondence between scientists totally off-limits except in criminal cases and the like. no fishing trips.

the relevant data (as opposed to private conversations) has been public for years and years. easily accessible online, too.

[Vazeckta]

And here I was under the naive impression that global warming being at least partly caused by humans was common knowledge. What a sad day for my faith in humanity.

[Free Soviets]

And here I was under the naive impression that global warming being at least partly caused by humans was common knowledge. What a sad day for my faith in humanity.

we've got people that think the earth is 6000 years old around here. expecting them to accept anything science says is hoping for too much.

[Norsklow]

A I consider it to be about poluters
B:I consider the desired solution as being tough on consumerism, and punitive taxation on energy use.

We should do that anyway, if only because such energy is limited and we should be saving it for when we might need it more. But this is about climate change itself, not the otherwise pragmatic value of solutions to it.

What's the point of a problem without a pragmatic solution?