RUTHFULLY YOURS

There is no evidence, only speculation, that human emissions of greenhouse gases are overheating Earth. Despite this, there’s a growing movement to prosecute and incarcerate those who violate the rules set down by the climate zealots. It’s as if the Spanish Inquisition has changed the definition of heresy so that those who have a healthy skepticism of the global warming claims are now the targets of the office of the tribunal.

• In jolly old England, “​​property owners who don’t comply with new energy rules may face prison,” says the London Telegraph. “Ministers want to grant powers to create new criminal offenses and increase penalties as part of efforts to hit net zero targets,” the Telegraph continues. “​​Under the proposals, people who fall foul of regulations to reduce their energy consumption could face up to a year in prison and fines of up to” nearly $19,000 in U.S. dollars.
• Three guest authors writing in CarbonBrief about “climate misinformation” said that justice for those who dare challenge the global warming narrative includes “bringing in a correction or a collaborative approach after the misinformation has been received, or even putting in place punishments, such as fines or imprisonment.”
• Then there’s England’s lunatic Guardian newspaper. One of its climate correspondents has suggested “financial penalties or prison time” for oil company executives for their “40 years of lying about climate change,” as well as “the propagandists they’ve employed and the politicians they’ve funded” who so far “have largely escaped blame.”
• The United Nations has wondered if “international criminal law” should “be used against those who promote this dangerous trend” of spreading “climate denial.”

Of course this nonsense isn’t new.

• Bill Nye, who claims to be a science guy but is more of a fruitcake fellow, said in 2016 that he could see “where people are very concerned about” the “extreme doubt about climate change” and are therefore “pursuing criminal investigations.”
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who showed some sense in regard to the pandemic, once said the energy billionaire Koch brothers “should be enjoying three hots and a cot at The Hague.”
• Five years ago, Euronews reported that the European Court of Justice would start examining “whether German courts should give prison sentences to politicians who don’t enforce bans on heavily polluting cars.” A year earlier, a Bavarian court said that fines were not sufficient and asked the European Court of Justice “to advise on the legality of imposing” prison sentences on elected officials “who didn’t enforce the ban.”

We could go on. And on. But by now readers get the point. The climate conspirators are not reasonable people. They are modern-day Torquemadas, as fanatical and intolerant as the most cruel of the grand inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board