On September 25, I wrote:
I am on the record as believing that global warming is occurring, and that humans at least have some role in it--although that role is less certain than the warming itself.
Today, I came across this from the U.S. Senate Committe on the Environment and Public Works:
A U.S. based environmental magazine that both former Vice President Al Gore (http://gristmill.grist.org/print/2006/9/19/11408/1106?show_comments=no ) and PBS newsman Bill Moyers, for his October 11th global warming edition of “Moyers on America” titled “Is God Green?” (http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/05/09/roberts/index.html ) have deemed respectable enough to grant one-on-one interviews to promote their projects, is now advocating Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for skeptics of human caused catastrophic global warming.
Egads! I need to go underground.
Grist Magazine’s staff writer David Roberts called for the Nuremberg-style trials for the “bastards” who were members of what he termed the global warming “denial industry.”
Roberts wrote in the online publication on September 19, 2006, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.”
So I checked out the original post at Grist. Turns out Roberts reaction (overreaction?) is to an excerpt from George Monbiot's book "Heat: How to stop the planet from burning," in which Monbiot lays out the case that Exxon and Big Tobacco are responsible for a massive media misinformation campaign.
No analysis here, just more disbelief that neither side in this debate can figure out that their extreme posturing alienates the public. Without public support, nothing will be done about climate change. Can't we all just get along?
