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Climate change activists want punishment for skeptics
No credible scientists were quoted saying any such thing in this article. Activists have a number of extreme people in their ranks in every discussion. And it was a 'Conservative' that tried to charge Micheal Mann in jail for writing a scientific article.
we just saw an example where it was both
Yes, but they did many things which made the situation worse than it needed to be.CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL SHOULD BE A CRIME
In the wake of Harvey, it’s time to treat science denial as gross negligence—and hold those who do the denying accountable.
n August 2016, months after Houston had been hit by the second of two back-to-back “hundred year floods,” Mike Talbott, then the head of Houston’s flood control district, told The Texas Tribune and ProPublica that he still had no plans to study climate change or its potential impacts on the county — Harris, the third-largest in the nation — that he was charged with protecting. Talbott criticized scientists for being “anti-development,” and not only ignored but denigrated studies — even those conducted by his own department, one of which he called “absurd” — that suggested development was worsening flooding, or that urged him to leave prairies intact to absorb floodwaters. When the Tribune told Talbott that a host of scientific experts had said the contrary, his reply was blunt.
“You need to find some better experts,” he said. When asked for names, the Tribune reported, Talbott would only say, “starting here, with me.”
Almost exactly one year later, Harvey made landfall.
According to the Texas penal code, “A person acts with criminal negligence, or is criminally negligent… when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise....”
Climate change denial should be a crime
From what was in the rest of the article, Talbott should be charged with criminal negligence.
The ground can only absorb so much rain water, the rest just runs off like it was concrete. Builders have to have a drainage plan for the non-permeable structures they construct like driveways, rooftops, parking lots and roads. But those can only do so much and in an event like Harvey, no amount of planning will stop flooding, especially in Houston. It's not called they Bayou City for nothing.
You silly ignorant twink. 'Hide the decline' is not part of the Mann graph. And that graph has been verified more than a dozen times with different researchers using different proxies. Dr. Mann is a very respected scientist, here and internationally.Climate change activists want punishment for skeptics
No credible scientists were quoted saying any such thing in this article. Activists have a number of extreme people in their ranks in every discussion. And it was a 'Conservative' that tried to charge Micheal Mann in jail for writing a scientific article.
Michael Mann has never done anything "scientific"
His "hockey stick" chart is from an ALGORithm that returns a hockey stick chart regardless of the data it is fed....
"Hide the decline" is his quote. How is hiding the truth of the data "science?"
It isn't science. It is fudging data to promote FRAUD.
You know, you can actually look stuff up:If there is a scintilla (a word that Brits like to use) of evidence that the industrial age (U.S. decadence?) is causing weather changes you have to consider the mid 20th century's global war. There wasn't a week that went by that a oil tanker wasn't blown out of the water off the coast of North Carolina. Each one would be considered to be a global disaster these days but it went on for the better part of four years. Factor in the carnage in Europe and the South Pacific and every continent except Antarctica. Why didn't the six or seven year world wide genocide of WW2 result in a spike in global warming? American Troops would have welcomed a mild winter in North Korea in 1951 but it was one of the most brutal winters in history. After a couple of severe winters the general consensus among "scientists" during the 70's was that the world was headed for another ice age.
