Climate deniers have attacked a philosopher for pointing out that the
funding of the climate deniers could be said to be criminally negligent
when there is a 99% consensus amongst scientists that climate change is
real.
Here’s a few things that US-based philosopher and
academic Lawrence Torcello has been told about global warming over the
last couple of weeks
It’s a “lie straight from the Jews”, it “isn’t real”, it’s a “hoax”
designed to “enslave people” and it’s an artifact of scientists engaged
in a “worldwide collusion to hide the truth”.
Torcello himself was told he was both a “faggot” and a “maggot” but
not in the same email. Poets, these correspondents were not (he was also
called a fascist and a Stalinist – another chance at a rhyming couplet
criminally missed).
Torcello is an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of
Technology in New York state who a few days earlier had written a story
for The Conversation website.
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