Persecution of scientists for doing their job. It is incredible how special-interest profiteers can mobilise such vast political resources and even generate an anti-scientific ideology.

As the impacts of the climate change become more evident (and disastrous) the neo-liberal McCarthyism will become more strident. It's like as if they are screaming at us "the sun rises in the west, and if you don't agree we'll get you"

Sioux Rose

Amazing isn't it? When the TRUTH is inconvenient, the most "pragmatic" route is always to cast aspersions upon those best situated to proclaim it. Heck, as an astrologer, loyal to a belief system that places its practitioners into the heretic camp (a designation many on the left AND right seem to agree upon) I know how these hate campaigns work. The church tried this route on Gallileo... cheaper and more cost-effective to silence him or torture him into going along with "the program" than otherwise face bad PR. The religious elites of yesteryear dreaded having to stand up to the thousands that were conditioned to believe on threat of death that if they didn't follow letter-of-the law rules and applications their souls would be condemned for all eternity... How then could those who spoke of the immutable authority of the church turn around and say, "Gee, fellas, we were wrong. Have to amend all those holy texts and change the cosmology that held the earth as center to it all." And since then, the rift between independent thinkers and authoritarians has remained, described by a number of other designations.

Defense attorneys understand the mechanism, too. All they need is to create reasonable doubt and they can flip a juror and hold a verdict in limbo.

With hate radio well-funded and the elite not wishing to change "the program" today, it becomes merely a matter of cost-effective pre-emptive strategy to turn the truth tellers into the heretics and let the masses, angry at all the insults to their existences, aim their vitriol accordingly. Meanwhile, the earth burns, the tide rises, the forests vanish, and it's all the fault of those who try to tell the truth. My sympathies to the Indigenous who have lived with a sacred respect for Nature all these centuries... only to see fools tear up paradise while fighting over trinkets. The future is no longer a secure proposition for any of us.

It is typical behavior to make people think that the person who is telling the truth is lying so that no one will believe what they are saying. It has been my experience in life that lies to many times become more powerful than the truth and most people don't care enough to research on their own and so they don't take the time to listen to the person who is trying to tell the truth so that the right thing can be done. If making you out to be a crazy lying wacko doesn't work than they will try something else to stop the truth from coming out.

As climate change become more evident the more those who profit from continuing on the same path to destruction will play even more hard ball. These people don't play around and will do what it takes to silence those who only want to see the truth told and the right thing done.

It happens in other areas of life too and not just climate change. The question I have is when are people going to wake up and realize that they are being lied to and believe those brave men and women who have the courage to fight the lies with the truth.

Chrisy

While I am a firm believer in Climate Collapse,
I have little regard for the climatologists.

The atmospheric rise of C02, and the effect that it
would have on our planets survival has been known about
and written about since the 1960s.
They were gagged, censored, and forced to accept
industry models of the climate collapse since the early
1970s.
They all act like it is a new phenom that no one
knew about until Gore informed the world.

On May 16-18 the 4th International Conference on Climate Change will meet in Chicago. You probably won't hear much about it. Big Brother doesn't want discussion of this scientific hoax to be reported. The only intimidation is from the media and the progressive academics who feed off of government grants. They have been caught in lies, and now they do protest too loudly.
The United Nations and their legions of corrupt agency drones say exactly what they are told. They aren't anything like real sceintists and someone needs to call them out, even if his name is McCarthy

Actually, I sense a sea-change. People are more likely to disparage the solution to GW, rather than the science behind it. I think people are beginning to realize the weird weather occuring in too many places is related to GW, that the scientists were right all along, and that we need to do something about it. So the conversation is shifting, onto what to do about it, and of course the right is saying, 'don't do anything, it won't be bad'. I guess we can call that progress, can't we?

"In the US politicians have called for a criminal investigation of climate scientists..."

Should really be the other round: scientists calling for a criminal investigation of US politicians.. (among other things in regard to the cover-up of "that fateful day")

As an aside, McCarthyism was largely a Liberal initiative.
However fiercely historians disagree about the merits of American communism, they almost universally agree that the post-World War II red scare signified a rightward turn in American politics. The consensus is that an exaggerated, irrational fear of communism, bolstered by a few spectacular spy cases, created an atmosphere of persecution and hysteria that was exploited and fanned by conservative opportunists such as Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy.

Yet the most famous and effective anticommunist measures were carried out not by conservatives, but by liberals seeking to uphold the New Deal. It was the liberal Truman administration that chased Communists out of government agencies and prosecuted Communist Party leaders under the Smith Act. It was liberal Hollywood executives who adopted the blacklist, effectively forcing Communists out of the movie business. The labor leaders who purged Communists from their unions were, similarly, liberals. Most anticommunism—the anticommunism that mattered—was not hysterical and conservative, but, rather, a methodical and, in the end, successful attempt on the part of New Deal liberals to remove Communists from specific areas of American life, namely, the government, unions, universities and schools, and civil rights organizations. It is true that the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) helped carry out these measures, but it is a mistake to assume that J. Edgar Hoover or HUAC could have had much power without the cooperation of liberals who wanted Communists identified and driven out of their organizations.

The Liberals hated the Communists because they were Internationalists.

Party of the pre-war and war years became the launch pad for the reactionary Liberalism which "owns" the Left today, and this not by omission, fear and panic but by way of specific and cold-blooded intent... and also in a form which is readily recognizable to this very day.

Let's also recall the most famous of sweeps in this country, The Palmer Raids, were organized by then attorney General Mitchell A. Palmer, a leading liberal Democrat and a Quaker.

Sorry for the diversion.

Bravo to the climate scientists. The Fossil Fuel Barons' goons have attacked, but they are the idiots. They deny that their own house is on fire.

The effects of global warming will probably be far worse than the scientists are now predicting since the increase of methane bubbling up from the tundra and continental rims of the Arctic ocean is not fully figured into the super computer models. The Sun is going through a temporary period with fewer sunspots than usual (though these low sunspot periods can have isolated super sunspot events). Thus the Sun is slightly cooler now but later in this century it will be warmer again plus much more green house gases, thus super warming. During the Permian Extinction 1000 kilometers of volcanoes through coal fields caused severe global warming. Sulfur gas producing anaerobic bacteria swept the ocean killing off 95% of ocean life and 90% land life. The effects of ocean pollution appear to be causing the beginning of this now at a lower level of C02 in the atmosphere than during the Permian Extinction. This sulfur gas producing bacteria has gone from 100 kilometer dead zone to a 1000 kilometer area off shore of Namibia in Southwest Africa. It has begun off of Alaska too. A couple of psychologists in the late 70’s and 1980’s took several hundred people in deep hypnosis to about the year 2100. 2/3rds of the people saw a hot world with a lethal level toxic atmosphere. Surviving people were living unhappy lives in very crowded domed or underground cities. Outside the world was mostly dead. These people intuitively saw this when the fear was nuclear war not manmade ecological collapse. Book- Mass Dreams of the Future). We are killing this world and anti-ecological right wing fundamentalists and materialist economic conservative people who refuse to see this have minds controlled by the dark force of ego delusion. Their next lifetimes will be distinctly unpleasant. Karma does happen. You middle and lower class folk spouting the anti-eco propaganda of big business are blind fools helping those who are destroying your economic and biological support system.

Simply fascinating,

A Petroleum society which intentionally deludes itself so it can keep making too many babies and keep rolling around in private carriages where the inhabitants can pretend to be somebody they are not.

Driving in a Hummer or a Limo or an RV?

You are saying: "My life is more important than your lives, this is why I surround myself with heavy metal at 8 MPG and live in a 20,000 square foot home or two. The Devil with your planet, I'll be dead before the air is unbreathable and the ocean floods in."

Tipping the scales at a portly number?

You are saying: "It's Good to be King (of the refrigerator, that is!)"

But the sad truth is, your poles are melting, and the last satellite your NASA tried to put up to monitor polar ice melt mysteriously exploded. And the existing one hasn't sent "reliable" data for several years. But every year the mythical Northwest Passageway is open for Supertankers straight through the middle of Canada. But your population doesn't know these things because you live in a Police State with a controlled media.

Beam me out of here Mr Scott, I've seen enough.

Spock - out.

Once again, the science community brings a textbook and a petition (and maybe a defense lawyer) to a knife fight.

Well, at least they say for the first time in the media lately that there are scientists who are not behind the Big Bang Theory.... (I know they are trying to be "fair") but I wouldn't lump those into the same group that oppose evolution. The Big Bangers even brag that there is no contradiction between believing God created the universe out of nothing and a singularity doing the same thing.

The Big Bang says everything came out of nothing, that we live in an infinite sea of parallel universes where if you think it, it is true... everything is true, nothing is a lie. The Big Banger scientists on TV are the same smiling group of about 4 or 5 shills for the militarization of space so that we can soon escape from the self-destruction of our planet because trying to save it is hopeless.

Star Wars is now the Big Bangs future depiction, suggesting war is also created from nothing where nobody is responsible but Big Bang/God.

War excuses pollution/destruction and the Big Bang Theory gives war and death the look of eternal godliness.... junk science at its best.

So, I must conclude: The Universe isn't banging, civilization is.