Seismologists are being charged with manslaughter for failing to predict the "La Aquila" earthquake, should Climatologists who make predictions about climate change which do not turn out to be correct, but result in additional costs to everyone, have criminal charges of Fraud and/or Extortion brought against them by the civil authorities? As a group they claim to be able to predict that anthropogenic climate change will make the earth's climate untenable for some species, should they be held liable criminally for those predictions if they are not correct?
2011-05-28T14:18:57Z
Hey Dook: Obviously, the charges against the seismologists in Italy are real. Your claim that they are falsely charged is not germane to the question. Climate scientists have already made statements and issued opinions which have altered the lives of those who live in the United States. The listing of Polar Bears as a threatened species is the direct result of opinions that they are a potential victim of "global warming". My question is simple, should these scientists be help criminally liable for statements which may not be correct?
Anonymous2011-05-27T06:48:28Z
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Yes! They should be charged with all sorts of things, including fraud and extortion! It is the biggest hoax since......well I can't think of a bigger hoax. The earth's climate is constantly in change, there is never a time period where the climate was perfectly "stable" and CO2 levels were "normal". A few thousand years ago, the place I live in right now was covered in a mile thick sheet of ice. Man contributed nothing to the melting of the ice, because man barely had any technologies that produced CO2, but it melted anyway. A few billion years ago, CO2 levels were almost 7,000% higher than they are now. If I'm correct, the levels were about 7,000 ppm, and now they are about 130 ppm. The earth's climate is constantly in flux, there is no one direct cause.
They should at least be investigated. This is a huge misuse of science, the money, time and resources that have been wasted on global warming research should be use to find cheaper sources of energy. The climate has changed and species have gone extinct throughout the Earths history,long before humans even existed.
Nobody of that feild should be charged. They only predict it by evedince given but not all the time it is correct. If we are going to charge them for saughter then i saw charge Army officals for murder since they kill with the intent to kill yes they protect but they still kill just like the predict to protect the people yet they do not kill intentionally. I mean you try to predict weather for every day you try to predict something that could possible happen you tell the city to oh evacuate there might be an earth quake nobody will really care because its possible but it might not happen
I think the majority of them are misguided. Remember, these "scientists" are basing most of their beliefs about global warming on faulty data from NASA and others. The ones who fabricate data like Michael Mann definitely should be charged.
Rather than ranting, please provide a specific example.
Please name the specific climatologist and the specific claim of predicting that climate change will make the climate untenable for some species that has not come true.
I'll bet that this "asker" has nothing to say once she is pinned down to specifics. A lot of rather dim-witted people like to come here and rant ignorantly, but really can't explain what they are talking about because they don't know. I can easily be proved wrong here, if I am wrong, by the asker simply providing an example of what she is talking about.
I think this asker is either a dishonest person, or one who has never read what climatologists actually say.
As for the La Aquila seismologists, you are referring to the court system in Italy which we know to be deeply flawed. Very little climate research has been conducted in Italy, so your associating the event further shows ignorance of the actual events. As to your question, no I would not recommend any other court system to emulate the Italian system.