Climatologist Stephen Schneider - "You Know It's Going To Happen - They Shoot Abortion Doctors Here"

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UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9, 2010 (Tierramérica) - Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn. U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma and climate change denier, in late February released a list of leading climate scientists he wants prosecuted as criminals for misleading the government. Those scientists are receiving hate mail and death threats.

"I have hundreds" of threatening emails, Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford University in California, told Tierramérica. He believes scientists will be killed over this. "I'm not going to let it worry me... but you know it's going to happen," said Schneider, one of the most respected climate scientists in the world. "They shoot abortion doctors here."

This backlash against the evidence of climate change and the scientists themselves is not just a U.S. phenomenon. It is happening in Canada, Australia, Britain, and, to a lesser extent, in other European countries. On the surface, this campaign is about a few errors in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2,800-page report released in 2007 and some 10-year-old personal emails stolen from Britain's University of East Anglia.

But deeper down, this is the last big effort by the fossil fuel industry to delay action on fighting climate change, just as the tobacco industry successfully delayed understanding of the harmful effects of smoking for several decades, says Schneider. "We're up against the multi-billion-dollar fossil fuel industry and the haters of government. They spin and spin and cast doubt on the credibility of science," he said. The media are an accomplice in this, he said, because they have failed to put wild claims into context and continue to interview people like Inhofe and others who have no evidence or credibility on these issues. "I'm pretty damn angry that media companies are putting profits ahead of truth. The media are deeply broken... That's a real threat to democracy," Schneider said.

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[joeybee12]

1. The media are deeply broken...That's a real threat to democracy"

Abso-fucking-lutely!

[blm]

2. and they'll call themselves 'patriots' for carrying out the will of the fascists manipulating them.

It's the Republican Way.

[tom_paine]

7. Yep. History doesn't change much, does it? As someone once said,

"If history doesn't repeat, it sure does rhyme"

What rhymes with Right-Wing Authoritarian Follower in 1930s Germany?

:rofl:

[smoogatz]

3. He's right.

Inhofe basically put out a hit on these guys. It's only a matter of time before some teabagger loon takes him up on it.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

8. THESE PEOPLE (INHOFE) ARE NEUROTIC AND PSYCHOTIC

[pleah]

4. K&R

[Turbineguy]

5. I was told of an old Russian saying:

"One must make way for ignorance."

[n2doc]

6. yep.

Inhofe should be prosecuted for terrorism.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

9. TERRORISM IS INSTILLING FEAR PERIOD

[fl_dem]

10. I concur!

The man is a dangerous dipshit.