Russell Cook: Climate in the full court of impartial public opinion

Guest columnist Joe Silverman [“Climate in the court of public opinion,” Jan. 3] called for a public messaging campaign that “educates the misinformed, engages the disengaged,” as though that hasn’t already happened for the last two decades in the legacy news media.

The Republican Party now has full control of all three branches of government, so one specific joint House/Senate investigation into the California firm handling 19 current “ExxonKnew” lawsuits may end up serving the purpose the author wishes for: educating the public about science-based assessments from scientists who say the “climate crisis” is vastly overblown, and exposing just how egregiously false the accusation is about “skeptic scientists paid to spread disinformation by Big Oil.”

When enough people become aware of how the “Al Gore side” of the issue can’t rebut the skeptics in the “court of public opinion” and thus seek to wipe out the skeptics via baseless character assassination, that’s when the disengaged will become engaged — demanding to know why the legacy news media never questions anything about that accusation.

The climate issue only stands on two legs, “settled science” and “liars-for-hire” skeptic scientists. If that second leg completely collapses, the issue cannot remain standing on just one leg. The killer question will be whether enviro-activists sought to deceive the public about the credibility of skeptic climate scientists, whose climate assessments could have, and may still, potentially kill the “climate crisis” hysteria.

Russell Cook

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