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Tue Jun 2, 2020, 09:46 AM Jun 2020

Climate Liars All-In With Urging Violence Against Protestors, Threats Against Actual Scientists

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NASA’s Peter Kalmus likely got the brunt of it though, for his tweet explaining that “race justice and climate justice are one and the same” because “the oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize and kill black bodies and colonize and kill our planet are one and the same.”

The fact that Kalmus is at NASA means that he may be vulnerable to pressure from political appointees there -- like, say, Eric Trump’s brother-in-law, who was recently installed as NASA’s deputy chief of staff. That fact might explain why Marc Morano decided to target Kalmus with the feature treatment at ClimateDepot, instead of one of the women he traditionally subjects to his harassment. As a former Rush Limbaugh staffer and longtime Republican operative and fossil fuel defender, this sort of behavior is standard for Morano, who’s said that climate scientists should be publicly flogged. In a past piece about his tactic of whipping followers into a frenzy and siccing them on scientists, his defense is that he claims to think he is “doing them a favor by posting their publicly available email addresses."

And who wouldn’t want to get an outpouring of hate and abuse in their inbox? What a charming fella! We thought about returning the favor and publishing Morano’s email, but we’re not going to because he’d just use it to cowardly play the victim anyway, as he does when confronted about his harassment campaigns. If mocking climate scientists supporting the protests is an unsurprising confirmation of what you already thought about deniers, just wait, there’s more! Because on top of that, plenty of deniers have been criticizing the protesters themselves in some inadvertently revealing ways. (By which we mean racist.)

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So do deniers want the protests against police brutality to end peacefully, or with more brutality? Well, Steve Milloy is hoping for police dogs, calling for the military to be brought “on the streets” “to maintain law and order,” claiming the police, who are here because they murdered yet another defenseless black man, “are not even allowed to defend themselves.” And if you prefer your calls for escalating the brutality to be a little more explicit, consider CFACT’s Craig Rucker: “Having a son in the National Guard, it is very encouraging to hear that if he must -- he has the ability to defend others and himself with live ammo.”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/2/1949702/-Deniers-Attack-Climate-Scientists-Who-Are-Speaking-Out-About-George-Floyd?utm_campaign=recent

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