[h=1]Are YOU a 'global warming Nazi'? People who label sceptics 'deniers' will kill more people than the Holocaust, claims scientist[/h]
- Claim was made by Roy Spencer, a professor at University of Alabama
- ‘When politicians and scientists started calling people like me “deniers”, they crossed the line. They are still doing it,’ he wrote in a blog post
- His reasoning for using the word 'Nazi' is because climate activists are, he claims, anti-capitalist fascists
Barack Obama, David Cameron and Richard Branson are all ‘global warming Nazis’.
This is according to scientist Roy Spencer, who is a professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and a vocal denier of man-made climate change.
Dr Spencer believe that people who label those against human-induced global warming ‘climate deniers’ will ‘kill far more people than the Nazis ever did.’
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The radical claim was made by climate scientist Roy Spencer, who is a professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and a vocal denier of man-made climate change
He argues, these same people should be appropriately labelled as ‘global warming Nazis.’
‘When politicians and scientists started calling people like me “deniers”, they crossed the line. They are still doing it,’ he wrote in a blog post published yesterday.
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David Cameron is known to have used the term 'climate change denier' along with Barack Obama, Richard Branson, Nick Clegg and Ed Davey
‘They indirectly equate the sceptics' view that global warming is not necessarily all manmade nor a serious problem, with the denial that the Nazi's extermination of millions of Jews ever happened’ wrote Spencer on his blog.
‘Too many of us for too long have ignored the repulsive, extremist nature of the comparison,’ he continues. ‘It's time to push back.'
His reasoning in using the word Nazis is because climate activists are, in his words, 'anti-capitalist fascists'.
‘[They are] willing to sacrifice millions of lives of poor people at the altar of radical environmentalism,’ he wrote.
The words come from a prominent figure in debates surrounding climate change.
Dr Spencer has been a called number of times by the Republican Party to give evidence to Congress.
But the term ‘climate change denier’ isn’t hated by everyone.
Dr Richard Lindzen, when asked which descriptive term he preferred, said: ‘I actually like “denier.” That's closer than "sceptic"’.
Steve Milloy, the operator of the climate change denial website JunkScience.com, told
Popular Science, ‘Me, I just stick with "denier" ... I'm happy to be a denier.’
Dr Spencer has previously said: ‘I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimise the role of government.’
In the opening and closing of his blog, he writes: ‘Yeah, somebody pushed my button.'