U.S. Senators Need To Review The Meaning of "Free Speech"

British Lord Stings Senators Rockefeller and Snowe: 'Uphold Free Speech or Resign'
British Lord Stings Senators Rockefeller and Snowe: 'Uphold Free Speech or Resign' The lingering html is in the original...

In what The Charleston (WV) Daily Mail has called "an intemperate attempt to squelch debate with a hint of political consequences," Senators Rockefeller and Snowe released an open letter dated October 30 to ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson, insisting he end Exxon's funding of a "climate change denial campaign." The Senators labeled scientists with whom they disagree as "deniers," a term usually directed at "Holocaust deniers." Some voices on the political left have called for the arrest and prosecution of skeptical scientists. The British Foreign Secretary has said skeptics should be treated like advocates of Islamic terror and must be denied access to the media.

Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley -- former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- a name tp remember!

Concludes Lord Monckton, "I challenge you to withdraw or resign because your letter is the latest in what appears to be an internationally-coordinated series of maladroit and malevolent attempts to silence the voices of scientists and others who have sound grounds, rooted firmly in the peer- reviewed scientific literature, to question what you would have us believe is the unanimous agreement of scientists worldwide that global warming will lead to what you excitedly but unjustifiably call 'disastrous' and 'calamitous' consequences."

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heck, here's the original letter in pdf, it's even better! (emphasis mine)

There is no evidence that further warming will cause malaria or yellow fever to spread. Climatic warmth is not an important habitat signifier for the anopheles or Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes. But when the US administration sought to appoint Paul Reiter, a world expert on the mosquito, to the UN’s climate change panel, the panel vetoed his appointment because they knew he disagreed with the alarmist view that they were determined to purvey. It is easy to claim a “consensus” if scientists who disagree are excluded.