Kowabunga

A few weeks ago, Opinion Journal ran a letter written by Senators Rockefeller and Snowe to the CEO of Exxon/Mobile, demanding that they cease funding of research that runs counter the "global warming" mantra. There is also an accompanying editorial:

its essential point is that the two Senators believe global warming is a fact, and therefore all debate about the issue must stop and ExxonMobil should "end its dangerous support of the [global warming] 'deniers.' " Not only that, the company "should repudiate its climate change denial campaign and make public its funding history." And in extra penance for being "one of the world's largest carbon emitters," Exxon should spend that money on "global remediation efforts."

The Senators aren't dumb enough to risk an ethics inquiry by threatening specific consequences if Mr. Tillerson declines this offer he can't refuse. But in case the CEO doesn't understand his company's jeopardy, they add that "ExxonMobil and its partners in denial have manufactured controversy, sown doubt, and impeded progress with strategies all-too reminiscent of those used by the tobacco industry for so many years."

Regardless of what you believe where global warming is concerned, the comparison to the tobacco industry and lung disease is a lot of horse-hockey. They are also attempting to marginalize anyone who holds an opinion that is contrary to what they believe in by using terms like "global warming deniers" and referring to research into this area as not being legitimate if not peer-reviewed by the same types of people who brought us a lot of hype about "cold fusion" being the next great thing. We all know where that one ended up. Never mind the fact that these so-called "peers" are attempting to use their status to control what information and knowledge is disseminated to the general public. In other words, they want to censor what conflicts with their views, just like much of the mainstream media does on a daily basis.

Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent a scathing rebuttal to the two U.S. Senators, blasting them for their blatant attempt at curtailing the First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech.

You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to "senior elected and appointed government officials" who disagree with your opinion. You are elected officials yourselves. If you do not believe in the right of persons within the United States to exercise their fundamental right under the world’s greatest Constitution to petition their elected representatives for the redress of their grievances, then you have no place on Capitol Hill. You must go.

Monckton then goes into a lot of data, some of it referencing UN reports, and events, such as the death of 3,000 people in France during a heat wave a few years back, which was blamed on "global warming" and how the media predominantly ignored the death of 25,000 people in the U.K. last year during a severe cold snap.

The letter from Monckton to these two rogue Senators does a good job of providing information that refutes the "global warming" doomsayers. An excellent letter that I highly recommend reading.