An article from the Guardian, Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist, reports that:
James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.
Do you think this is the right idea? If this is what needs to be done in the name of “Global Warming” what is the next step. Who are the next criminals? Would a broadcast meteorologist need to be charged and tried “for high crimes against humanity and nature” if they don’t go on air right after a tornado, hurricane, flooding or any other extreme weather and say this event was due to global warming and all of us are to blame.
There are scientist, meteorological and climatological, that don’t necessarily accept that humans are fully responsible for all of the global warming and many of these scientist just want an open debate. Is that a bad thing? I want to see a debate on this issue. I think it is important, especially in the realm of science, that an open debate and a open flow of theories and ideas, scientifically based, are allowed. Am I wrong? What do you think?
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1 blisschick // Jun 23, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Oh, my, I think you’ll know how I feel about this, Brian. If we start calling for trials for big oil, I guess anyone who has ever driven a car better get in line, since it is demand that creates these issues. Big oil did not force us all to be mindless about resource allocation. Comparing that to what tobacco companies did is ignorant, though, even in that case, people continue to smoke to this day, so what does that say? I’d like to know when Mr. Hansen stopped driving his car…facetiousness dripping from that particular sentence!
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