Moth Eyes

Earlier, Watt’s Up With That posted an article entitled “Climate Skepticism Could Soon Be a Criminal Offence in UK”. No, don’t go looking for it, it’s been disappeared down the memory hole. Roughly, the chairman of the far-right British Nationalist Party claimed that the EU was planning to make climate change denialism a crime. Now, sure, were it true, that would be wrong, but there’s absolutely no actual evidence of that and the BNP has a reputation for saying some pretty crazy things. After a few people pointed out that the source for the story was entirely unreliable, the story was deleted sometime in the night.

The trouble with a complete lack of skepticism is that you tend to believe some pretty stupid things. When these sorts of things are disputed, wouldn’t it be more honest to post a retraction, rather than just pretending it didn’t exist?

But don’t worry, it’s still being promoted by Marc Morano on Climate Depot, from whence it’s being copied around the internet.