posted June 04, 2015 11:18 AM            

In a Washington Post op-ed, Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse charges in against what he calls "the climate denial network." This group, he says, is behind a "a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution." His solution? Prosecute the network with "the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO."

Because RICO laws — which were enacted to break up the mob — had been used to crush the tobacco industry, Whitehouse finds them handy for throwing "the climate denial network" in the dock. After all, he says, "the parallels between what the tobacco industry did and what the fossil fuel industry is doing now are striking."

The Democrat admits that he doesn't "know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the tobacco industry." But his message is clear. Prosecute to persecute those who don't agree with him.

Whitehouse's public fretting isn't a shock. Those who keep holding onto the man-made climate change story have been desperate for some time. The climate models they base their argument on have failed. The storms they predicted haven't arrived. The snow hasn't stopped. The poles aren't melting. A look around the world simply fails to turn up any of the disasters they've predicted. So they're having to go to great lengths to keep the story alive.

How long this will go on, we don't know. Those who believe that man is warming the planet to a disastrous end are a stubborn lot. They won't let go easily.

posted July 09, 2015 09:35 AM            

take your Man Made Global Warming Bullshiiite and stuff it!

Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Endorsed Obama Now Says Prez. is ‘Ridiculous’ & ‘Dead Wrong’ on ‘Global Warming’

Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever: 'Global warming is a non-problem'

'I say this to Obama: Excuse me, Mr. President, but you're wrong. Dead wrong.'

'Global warming really has become a new religion.'

"I am worried very much about the [UN] conference in Paris in November...I think that the people who are alarmist are in a very strong position.'

'We have to stop wasting huge, I mean huge amounts of money on global warming.'

posted July 10, 2015 10:35 PM            

But he is the creator of the Gaia theory of earth as a living system ..and points out that too much pollution and deforestation throw off the inbuilt homeostasis mechanisms.

Very interesting man, and doggedly independent throughout his 60 year career. He sees the corruption of money on both sides ...and the dangers of interminable arguing between camps resulting in doing Nothing effective until things are desperately urgent.

I keep coming back to the most important thing being figuring out how to clean up the poisonous messes we make everywhere..I don't agree with everything he says, in fact he is brave enough to admit he's not always right.