Death threats anyone?

Death threats anyone? Austrian Prof: global warming deniers should be sentenced to death




Richard Parncutt

Richard Parncutt, Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz,
Austria, reckons people like Watts, Tallbloke, Singer, Michaels,
Monckton, McIntyre and me (there are too many to list) should be
executed. He’s gone full barking mad, and though he says these are his
“personal opinions” they are listed on his university web site.

For all the bleating of those who say they’ve had real “death threats“, we get discussions about executing skeptics from Professors,
wielding the tyrannical power of the state. Was he paid by the state to
write these simplistic, immature, “solutions”? Do taxpayers fund his
web expenses? (And what the heck is systematic musicology?)

Prof Richard Parncutt says:


<blockquote>“I have always been opposed to the death penalty in all cases…”

“Even mass murderers [like Breivik] should not be executed, in my opinion.”

“GW deniers fall into a completely different category from Behring
Breivik. They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of
future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a
conservative estimate.”

Consequences

If a jury of suitably qualified scientists estimated that a given GW
denier had already, with high probability (say 95%), caused the deaths
of over one million future people, then s/he would be sentenced to
death. The sentence would then be commuted to life imprisonment if the
accused admitted their mistake, demonstrated genuine regret, AND
participated significantly and positively over a long period in programs
to reduce the effects of GW (from jail) – using much the same means
that were previously used to spread the message of denial. At the end of that process, some GW deniers would never admit their mistake and as a result they would be executed.
Perhaps that would be the only way to stop the rest of them. The death
penalty would have been justified in terms of the enormous numbers of
saved future lives.
</blockquote>
Recant you foolish deniers or we’ll kill you! Yeah. Welcome to modern scientific debate.

Who should die? Anyone named on Desmog:

<blockquote>Much more would have happened by now if not for the GW
deniers. An amazing number of people still believe that GW is a story
made up by scientists with ulterior motives. For a long list of climate
change deniers and their stories see desmogblog.
</blockquote>
So the denier database becomes the “death list”. The list decided by
PR experts on a funded smear site, who profit from marketing Green
corporations.

But it’s ok, he includes a caveat where he says he didn’t say what I
quoted above, so he can later pretend he isn’t discussing real deaths of
real people:

<blockquote>Please note that I am not directly suggesting that the threat of execution be carried out.
I am simply presenting a logical argument. I am neither a politician
nor a lawyer. I am just thinking aloud about an important problem.
</blockquote>
And we all feel so much better don’t we?

But seriously, Global warming deniers are the worst vermin on the
face of the Earth, worse than holocaust deniers, tobacco deniers and
worse than someone who bombs buildings and shoots children en masse:

<blockquote>I don’t think that mass murderers of the usual kind, such
Breivik, should face the death penalty. Nor do I think tobacco
denialists are guilty enough to warrant the death penalty, in spite of
the enormous number of deaths that resulted more or less directly from
tobacco denialism. GW is different. With high probability it will cause
hundreds of millions of deaths. For this reason I propose that the death
penalty is appropriate for influential GW deniers.
</blockquote>
Here’s how the deadly reasoning goes


How does he know we are facing disaster?


He knows, because he’s read a blog
that pretends to be scientific and it says so. The same site resorts to
ad homs, and kindergarden namecalling (like “denier” and “Christie
Crocks”) and is debunked all over the internet, but the Prof is too poorly trained in reasoning to spot the cheap tricks, and he didn’t think to search for “SkepticalScience debunked”. Oops.

His killer “maths” (if you could call it that)


<blockquote>… given the inherent uncertainty surrounding climatic
predictions, even exaggerated accounts must be considered possible,
albeit with a low probability. Consider this: If ten million people are
going to die with a probability of 10%, that is like one million people
dying with a probability of 100%.
</blockquote>
He repeats this:

<blockquote>For the purpose of argument, let’s give the GW deniers
the benefit of the doubt and imagine that the scientists are wrong with a
high probability, say 90%. If they are right, some 100 million people
will die as a direct result of GW. Probably more like a billion, but
this is a conservative estimate. If the probability of that happening is
only 10%, then effectively “only” 10 million people will die. These are
the numbers that GW deniers are playing with while exercising their
“freedom of speech”.
</blockquote>
So even if “Deniers” are right, they are still murderous and should still be executed. Ooo-K


Apparently it didn’t occur to him that if skeptics are right, and the
world doesn’t warm, hardly anyone will die from global warming. That’s
“zero”, right? (I know children in infants-school who can get this.)

Worse, the failure of his theory could kill far more people than the failure of skeptics: hundreds of thousands of people in the third world have already starved as we fed their corn into cars, kids are suffering from green pollution in Brazil,
others will die waiting for medicine or mosquito nets while we build
sea walls to hold back a tide that may never come. Others are suffering a
life of blindness, dysentery, malaria, or dehydration and could be
cured if we spend money on doctors, or clean water supplies, rather than
solar farms. If the world cools and we are not prepared, millions will
starve from wheat crops that were killed by frost.

How meaningless is a Professorship at a university these days? Where
“higher education” doesn’t teach people to reason, doesn’t teach them
the value of free speech, and doesn’t teach them the humility to say
nothing when they know nothing.

I don’t think it’s worth writing to a man who can’t reason, but there
are people at his university who need to know what Parncutt is saying.
Is the University of Graz a serious university?

Prof Parncutt also thinks we need global taxes on wealth (guess that
means a global bureaucracy, to manage those global funds?). Since he
recommends The World Future Council,
that’s a red-flag, I recommend skeptics read it carefully. They say
they’re the voice of future generations. But they’re not speaking on
behalf of my descendants.


Source:-
http://joannenova.com.au/2012/12/death-threats-anyone-austrian-prof-global-warming-deniers-should-be-sentenced-to-death/