From Penn State: New Kind of Crime Against Humanity?

[panzerfaust]

... Although skepticism in science is needed to make science advance, for almost thirty years some corporations have supported a disinformation campaign about climate change science that has been spreading untruths and distortions about climate science. Several recent books document how this disinformation campaign began in the1980s including a book by Oreskes and Conway, Merchants of Doubt.(Oreskes and Conway, 2010)

Although it may be reasonable to be somewhat skeptical about climate change models, some corporate sponsored participants in the climate change disinformation campaign have been spreading deeply misleading distortions about the science of climate change. These untruths are not based upon reasonable skepticism but outright falsification and distortions of climate change science. These claims have included assertions that that the science of climate change that is the foundation for calls to action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have been "completely debunked" and that there is no evidence of human causation of recent observed warming. Reasonable skepticism cannot make these claims or others frequently being made by the well-financed climate change disinformation campaign...

http://rockblogs.psu.edu/climate/2010/10/a-new-kind-of-vicious-crime-against-humanity-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-disinformation-campaign-on-cl.html

Yes. Yes. I know that there is always "Planet B" to fall back on.

[Orrex]

1. Coming from Penn State, I expected this to be about my student loans

A crime against humanity, indeed.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

2. thought police

Failing to follow "group-think" should never be a crime. Its not an issue of how correct group-think maybe, but an issue of freedom. We are free to be individuals. We are free to think out of the box. We are free to be wrong. We are free to do stupid things.

Making it a crime to Not-believe in Global Warming is silly. And it sets a precedent to create other thought crimes.

This is something free societies need to avoid.

Tolerate those who disagree, embrace diversity.