HERESY: Professor argues for criminal punishment of those funding “climate denial.”

The professor writes in his essay, “We have good reason to consider the funding of climate denial to be criminally and morally negligent. The charge of criminal and moral negligence ought to extend to all activities of the climate deniers who receive funding as part of a sustained campaign to undermine the public’s understanding of scientific consensus.”

From the article:

Waving aside what he calls “misguided” concerns about “free speech”, Torcello argues that these “denialist” scientists are not misinforming the public by accident. Rather, he says, it is their intentional aim because they are “politically and financially motivated.”

As evidence of this, Torcello links to an article he found in the Guardian reporting the supposed leak of documents from the Heartland Institute, apparently revealing a concerted campaign funded by Big Oil interests, aimed at “dissuading teachers from teaching science.”

Torcello appears not to be aware that the documents quoted in the article had in fact been doctored or faked by an environmental activist (climate scientist and Macarthur genius award recipient) Peter Gleick.