Climate Denial Crock of the Week

Description:
Dr. Hovind talks about Bill Nye wanting to “jail Climate Change Deniers” who won’t obey science showing the earth’s climate is changing… Bill Nye is openly admitting he is an authoritarian with such inflammatory comments. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin would be proud of Bill Nye the Science Guy.

If Stupid were Against the Law…..

Oil Giant Exxon-Mobil, and some organizations that have received Exxon funding, are under investigation by several State Attorneys General, following revelations that Exxon scientists understood and warned management of the consequences of continued carbon release, as long ago as the 1960s.   The Attorneys General are asking if Exxon’s massive disinformation campaign on climate amounted to lying and deceiving its investors.

The company’s defense strategy is borrowed from Tobacco industry – it claims that disseminating misleading and distorted information and poisoning a national conversation was part of exercising its “Right of Free Speech”.

The meme is getting uptake among the usual target audience.  I love it when cartoon stereotypes come to life.

Wikipedia:

Kent E. Hovind (born January 15, 1953) is an American Christian fundamentalist evangelist and tax protester. He is a controversial figure in the Young Earth creationist movement and his ministry focuses on attempting to convince listeners to deny scientific theories including evolution, geophysics, and cosmology in favor of a literalist interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative found in the Bible. Hovind’s views, which combine elements of creation science and conspiracy theory, are dismissed by the scientific community as fringe theory and pseudo-scholarship. He has been criticized by Young Earth Creationist organizations like Answers in Genesis for his continued use of discredited arguments that have been abandoned by others in the movement.

Friends don’t let friends discuss climate without seeing my video on What Exxon Knew.