Terresa Monroe-HamiltonSaturday,
September 19, 2015
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/scientists-order-obama-to-prosecute-skeptics-of-global-warming/
From
The Daily Caller:
The science on global warming is settled, so
settled that 20 climate scientists are asking President Barack Obama to
prosecute people who disagree with them on the science behind man-made global
warming.
Scientists from several universities and
research centers even asked Obama to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
Act (RICO) to
prosecute groups that “have knowingly deceived the American people about the
risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate
change.”
Read more at
http://patriotupdate.com/scientists-order-obama-to-prosecute-skeptics-of-global-warming/
Letter to President
Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren September 1, 2015
Dear President Obama, Attorney General
Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren,
As you know, an overwhelming majority of
climate scientists are convinced about the potentially serious adverse effects
of human-induced climate change on human
health, agriculture, and biodiversity. We applaud your efforts to regulate
emissions and the other steps you are taking.
Nonetheless, as climate scientists we
are exceedingly concerned that America’s response to climate change
– indeed, the world’s response to
climate change – is insufficient.
The risks posed by climate change,
including increasing extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and increasing
ocean acidity – and potential strategies for addressing them – are detailed in
the Third National Climate Assessment (2014), Climate Change Impacts in the
United States. The stability of the Earth’s climate over the past ten
thousand years contributed to the growth of agriculture and therefore, a
thriving human civilization. We are now at high risk of seriously destabilizing
the Earth’s climate and irreparably harming people around the world, especially
the world’s
poorest people.
We appreciate that you are making
aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the
face of a recalcitrant Congress. One additional tool – recently proposed by
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act)
investigation of corporations and other
organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks
of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate
change. The actions of these organizations have been extensively documented in
pee reviewed academic research (Brulle, 2013) and in recent books including:
Doubt is their Product (Michaels, 2008), Climate Cover-Up (Hoggan & Littlemore,
2009), Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes & Conway, 2010), The Climate War
(Pooley, 2010), and in The Climate Deception Dossiers (Union of Concerned
Scientists, 2015). We strongly endorse Senator Whitehouse’s call for a RICO
investigation.
The methods of these organizations are
quite similar to those used earlier by the tobacco industry. A RICO
investigation (1999 to 2006) played an important role in stopping the tobacco
industry from continuing to deceive the American people about the dangers of
smoking. If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are
guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles,
it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that
America and the world can get on with the critically important business of
finding effective ways to re-stabilize the Earth’s climate, before even more
lasting damage is done.
Sincerely,
Jagadish Shukla, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA
Edward Maibach, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
Barry Klinger, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
Paul Schopf, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
David Straus, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
Edward Sarachik, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
Michael Wallace, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
William Lau, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
T.N. Krishnamurti, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, FL
Vasu Misra, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL
Ben Kirtman, University of Miami, Miami,
FL
Robert Dickinson, University of Texas,
Austin, TX
Michela Biasutti, Earth Institute,
Columbia University, New York, NY
Mark Cane, Columbia University, New
York, NY
Lisa Goddard, Earth Institute, Columbia
University, New York, NY
Alan Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT
Comments
Those who signed this letter have identified
themselves and their universities with the global warming hoax. It’s good that
those of us who disagree with them know who they are. It’s high time we go after them.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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