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Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats

Posted by samzenpus on from the warming-up-to-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the Australian parliament beginning the debate on setting a carbon price, climate scientists are reporting an increase in threatening phone calls and even death threats. The threats are serious enough that several universities have increased security for their ecology and meteorology researchers. The Australian government is seeking to introduce a carbon tax by July 2012."

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  1. Pie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...is good.

    1. Re:Pie by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      What exactly was wrong with the way they fell? The models I saw looked pretty convincing. The planes set fire to several floors. Once these were sufficiently weakened, they fell onto the ones below, with an increasing mass and speed hitting each subsequent floor, effectively hollowing out the buildings. The walls of the building were leaning slightly inwards (straight walls that high aren't possible with current materials) and kept rigid by horizontal beams, which were ripped out by the falling material. The walls then gave in to gravity and fell in and down into the tunnel.

      How would you have expected them to collapse? Falling over sideways would have required a lot more force than a single plane hitting, and would have happened at the impact time, not afterwards.

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  2. Re:Just goes to show the lunacy of the conservativ by harrytuttle777 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wait. I am trying to use logic and reason. The OP said that as a conservative I am naturally disadvantaged in this regard, but I will try nevertheless. If banning guns won't prevent murders, and will in fact just prevent the good people from defending themselves against the gun crazed lunatics, what is the purpose of banning guns.

  3. Re:Just goes to show the lunacy of the conservativ by Culture20 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    what is the purpose of banning guns.

    preventing the populace from defending itself from a totalitarian regime. History is replete with kings and warlords making weapons illegal for the populace (hence why many weapons are derived from farming tools). Just be glad you're not in GB where knives are on the chopping block.