The left's war on science

[awesome guy]

It's scarey that the left has politicized science to the point that they are attempting to criminalize disagreement. Stuff like this is why they're considered fascists.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/21/calif ... ate-change

[UpstateSCHokie]

It's scarey that the left has politicized science to the point that they are attempting to criminalize disagreement. Stuff like this is why they're considered fascists.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/21/calif ... ate-change

Its no different than in the middle ages when the government would jail/torture/punish people for heresy. You cannot speak out against their religion.

[awesome guy]

It's scarey that the left has politicized science to the point that they are attempting to criminalize disagreement. Stuff like this is why they're considered fascists.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/21/calif ... ate-change

Its no different than in the middle ages when the government would jail/torture/punish people for heresy. You cannot speak out against their religion.

Yep. And then they call you closed minded and intolerant.

[UpstateSCHokie]

It's scarey that the left has politicized science to the point that they are attempting to criminalize disagreement. Stuff like this is why they're considered fascists.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/21/calif ... ate-change

Its no different than in the middle ages when the government would jail/torture/punish people for heresy. You cannot speak out against their religion.

Yep. And then they call you closed minded and intolerant.

Not to mention, accuse us of being "religious fundies."

[awesome guy]

It's scarey that the left has politicized science to the point that they are attempting to criminalize disagreement. Stuff like this is why they're considered fascists.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/21/calif ... ate-change

Its no different than in the middle ages when the government would jail/torture/punish people for heresy. You cannot speak out against their religion.

Yep. And then they call you closed minded and intolerant.

Not to mention, accuse us of being "religious fundies."

let's not forget racist and homophobic. Even immigration is a "don't allow brown skinned people in" canard.

[VisorBoy]

It's scarey that the left has politicized science to the point that they are attempting to criminalize disagreement. Stuff like this is why they're considered fascists.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/21/calif ... ate-change

The investigation is based on the question of whether Exxon's internal view of climate change differed from its external communications, and to what extent, if any, Exxon is culpable of misleading the public and/or investors. That's more a business ethics question than a scientific one.

"California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris is investigating whether Exxon Mobil Corp. repeatedly lied to the public and its shareholders about the risk to its business from climate change — and whether such actions could amount to securities fraud and violations of environmental laws."

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"The move follows published reports, based on internal company documents, suggesting that during the 1980s and 1990s the company, then known as Exxon, used climate research as part of its planning and other business practices but simultaneously argued publicly that climate-change science was not clear cut."

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"Unlike federal securities law, the New York statute does not require the state to prove that a company intended to defraud — only that it misrepresented relevant information or withheld it from investors."
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-e ... story.html

I'm not sure what environmental laws are at play here, but the business side of the investigation is fair to investigate. However, it appears from what I've read that Exxon internally viewed global warming merely as a potential future outcome (hence, their analysis on it), but not a certain one. And if that's the case, then there shouldn't be any wrong-doing for their advocating publicly that global warming isn't certain (even if they are wrong about it) because their internal and external words/actions are consistent.

I hope that if there is no fraud found, that the groups investigating advertise that finding as loudly as the finding that they are under investigation.