Global Warming “Deniers” Receive Death Threats

The UK Telegraph is reporting that several prominent scientists whose work and opinions were included in the recent documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle” (see review) have received threats from environmentalists - many threatening their lives (h/t Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters):

Scientists who questioned mankind’s impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.

They say the debate on global warming has been “hijacked” by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions.

Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.

Many alarmists like to use the “why would we lie about anthropogenic global warming” claim and Ball hits the nail on the head of one of many reasons why:

“Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,” said the professor.

These tactics are nothing new in the world of science:

Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said: “Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.”

Einstein is but one who wouldn’t receive funding… the same could be said for many other great scientists who were shunned for their against-the-grain work. Ball, Calder, and many others deserve a place in history along the lines of many other great “skeptics”: Galileo, Copernicus, Hutton, and Darwin.

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