Environmental groups and the California state AG are trying to legally shut down debate on global warming. This article
by Steve Milloy at JunkScience.com explains what’s going on. It is
clear that representatives from these groups and their court of
“political” scientists, which includes some local propagandists like
Duke University’s William Schlesinger, are unwilling to debate the Pat
Michaels, David Ballings, and Fred Singers of the world but they are
finding out that simply refusing to debate them is not enough to
silence them. They are still (occasionally) forced to confront the
arguments of actual climate scientists. Like all good fascists, no
opposition can be tolerated, so now groups like Environmental Defense,
who had revenues of over $50 million in 2003, are worried that these
global warming skeptics might be getting a few hundred thousand dollars
from the industries that move our cars, get us to work, light, heat and
cool our houses, fly us around the world, etc. Specifically here’s
what’s going on:

“The State of California has filed a request in federal court
to force auto makers to disclose all documents and communications
between the companies and the so-called ?climate skeptics.? California
accuses the climate skeptics of playing a ?major role in spreading
disinformation about global warming…California has been joined in the
lawsuit by environmental activist groups including, the Sierra Club,
Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense.

In a pre-trial discovery motion, California and the environmental groups asked for:

All DOCUMENTS relating to both GLOBAL WARMING and to any of the
following individuals: S. Fred Singer, James Glassman, David Legates,
Richard Lindzen, Patrick J. Michaels, Thomas Gale Moore, Robert C.
Balling, Jr., Sherwood B. Idso, Craig D. Idso, Keith E. Idso, Sallie
Baliunas, Paul Reiter, Chris Homer [sic], Ross McKitrick, Julian
Morris, Frederick Seitz, Willie Soon, and Steven Milloy, including but
not limited to:

a.??? All DOCUMENTS relating to any communications between YOU and these individuals, and
b.??? All DOCUMENTS relating to YOUR relationship (or
the relationship of any automobile manufacturer or association of
automobile manufacturers) with any of them, including but not limited
to payments directly or indirectly from YOU or any other automobile
manufacturer or association of automobile manufacturer to any of them.

The state then goes on to quote from Ross Gelbspan?s book entitled, ?The Heat Is On?:

Ever since climate change took center stage at the 1992 UN Conference
on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Pat Michaels
and Robert Balling, together with Sherwood Idso, S. Fred Singer,
Richard S. Lindzen, and a few other high-profile greenhouse skeptics
have proven extraordinarily adept at draining the issue of all sense of
crisis. They have made frequent pronouncements on radio and television
programs, including a number of appearances by some of them on the Rush
Limbaugh show; their interviews, columns, and letters have appeared in
newspapers ranging from local weeklies to The Washington Post and The
Wall Street Journal. In the process they have helped create a broad
public belief that the question of climate change is hopelessly mired
in unknowns?.

The tiny group of dissenting scientists have been given prominent
public visibility and congressional influence out of all proportion to
their standing in the scientific community on the issue of global
warming. They have used this platform to pound widely amplified
drumbeats of doubt about climate change. These doubts are repeated by
virtually every climate-related story in every news-papers and every TV
and radio news outlet in the country.

By keeping the discussion focused on whether there really is a problem,
these dozen or so dissidents?contradicting the consensus view held by
2,500 of the world?s top climate scientists?have until now prevented
discussion about how to address the problem.

California then asserts that:

As set forth above, Defendants are entitled to review the documents
most likely to contain internal dissent at the manufacturers and the
most likely such documents are those dealing with the tactics of
entities like the GCC and individuals like the ?climate skeptics.?


What else can be said other than Sieg Heil!

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