Notorious climate change denier and congressional Republican favorite Roy Spencer just called his critics “global warming Nazis.” Sign the petition calling on Sen. David Vitter of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to denounce Spencer’s remarks and pledge to never invite him to testify again.
 
Last year, Senate Republicans called on infamous climate denier Roy Spencer to testify before Congress to question the degree to which humans are causing climate change. On Thursday, Spencer took to his blog to call his critics Nazis. This comment is not only obscenely offensive, but also reveals a profound and dangerous misunderstanding of climate change — both of which should disqualify him from testifying in front of Congress on climate science.
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) is the minority-ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and, in this capacity, is responsible for inviting Spencer to speak. Now, in the aftermath of Spencer's offensive and anti-science rant, we should act to hold Spencer's backers, like Vitter, accountable.
Spencer’s comment was more than a passing insult. In Spencer's testimony before Congress last July, he concluded that the evidence of human-caused climate change is “equivocal, at best.” Yesterday, unable to defend his conclusions, he turned to insults — describing his climate critics, he writes “Like the Nazis, they are anti-capitalist. They are willing to sacrifice millions of lives of poor people at the altar of radical environmentalism.”
The right to free speech applies equally to everybody — including blowhards like Dr. Spencer. But as someone who repeatedly delivers congressional testimony and has direct influence on policy, he should be held to higher professional standards. Now is the time for us to make our case: someone who equates his academic critics with mass murderers fails to meet those standards.
Factually yours,
Brant, Emily, Sylvie, and the rest of the Forecast the Facts team
MORE INFORMATION
"Time to push back against the global warming Nazis," Roy Spencer, Ph. D., 2-20-2014 http://act.forecastthefacts.org/go/604?t=5&akid=347.64594.9zP9Mx
"Statement to the Environment and Public Works Committee of the United States Senate," Dr. Roy Spencer, 7-18-2013 http://act.forecastthefacts.org/go/605?t=7&akid=347.64594.9zP9Mx
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