FEATURE – Climate debate gets ugly as world moves to curb CO2
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One high-profile site is climatedepot.com, run by Marc Morano, a former aide to U.S. Republican Senator James Inhofe, who is an outspoken critic of climate change policies.
Morano, who told Reuters he had also been the target of abusive emails, has been quoted as saying that climate scientists should be publicly flogged.
“The global warming scientists need to feel and hear the public’s outrage at their shenanigans like “climategate” … There is no advocacy of violence or hint that people should threaten them,” Morano said, adding: “Public outrage is healthy.”
“THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES”
Another prominent climate change denialist, Christopher Monckton, who’s associated with the U.S.-based Science and Public Policy Institute, told Reuters he doesn’t condone the coordinated attack on climate scientists, saying that he, too, was a victim.
He said his main aim was to expose what he calls the “non-problem of global warming” and in an email interview with Reuters accused climate change scientists of being “increasingly desperate to discredit anyone who dares to point out that the Emperor has no clothes”.
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Absolute anonimiteit draagt in sterke mate bij tot onbeschaafd gedrag.
Het toestaan van anonieme e-mailadressen (zoals hotmal en gmail) zou niet meer mogelijk moeten zijn.
Men moet op een gegeven moment (bedreigingen, enz.) ter verantwoording geroepen kunnen worden.
Verder zullen er best AWG-tegenstanders gefinancierd worden door industriele belangengroeperingen.
Aan de andere kant worden de AWG-voorstanders door overheden en milieugroepen gefinancierd.