Obama science guru John Holdren isn't sure.
Michael Egnor, writing for the Science & Public Policy
Initiative, reports on a television show last year when
Holdren was asked about trying company executive for "crimes
against humanity" for doubting global warming:
I couldn't really say. I'm not qualified to assess what the
heads of oil companies, past or present, have done in this
domain. My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund
a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to
propaganda against understanding of what climate change was
doing and the human role in causing it. Whether that sort of
activity really constitutes crimes against humanity is
something for those more embedded in the legal system than I to
judge ...
Maybe Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will get to rule on
the case.
About the Author
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).
