Shades of Galileo ........

New Inquisition: Punish climate-change 'deniers'
Calls for punitive action against those who refuse to buy environmental agenda
March 21, 2015

In the wake of Al Gore’s recent speech to the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, attention is being focused on the increasing trend among global warming activists to want to punish those who disagree with the concept of a manmade climate change.

“We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the attendees, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies which exceed their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.”

Gore was merely echoing a growing worldwide movement to not merely dismiss, but to actively seek out and penalize, those with opposing opinions on the issue.

Environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lamented that there were no current laws on the books to punish global-warming skeptics.

“I wish there were a law you could punish them with. I don’t think there is a law that you can punish those politicians under,” he said in a September 2014 interview with Climate Depot.

Nor is Kennedy the first to want to prosecute those who argue against the “consensus” of manmade climate change.

“Those denialists should face jail. They should face fines,” wrote Adam Weinstein, staff writer with Gawker.com. “They should face lawsuits from the classes of people whose lives and livelihoods are most threatened by denialist tactics. … [I]f you are actively trying to deny people the tools they need to inform themselves, to protect themselves against a scientifically proven threat to life and limb, you shouldn’t be part of the debate. You should be punished for your self-serving malice.”

On May 19, 2014, “PBS’ ‘Moyers & Company’ played a clip of scientist, David Suzuki, calling for politicians skeptical of man-made climate change to ‘be thrown in the slammer,’” reported NewsBusters. “[One] day later, a tweet by well-known alarmist Michael Mann suggested that skepticism could be a ‘crime against humanity.’ As least far back as 2006, and as recently as March 2014, liberal journalists and radical scientists have advocated punishing people who doubt catastrophic, man-made climate change.”

As Gore’s speech confirms, activists are still calling for punitive measures against skeptics. Some have termed this trend the New Inquisition.

An extreme example came in 2012 from Richard Parncutt, a professor at the University of Graz in Austria, who called for the death penalty as “an appropriate punishment for influential GW deniers” because “they are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people.”

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