Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence

ON October 31, 1992, Pope John Paul II apologised on behalf of the Vatican for the persecution of Galileo Galilei over 350 years earlier. Poor Galileo had the nerve to say that the sun, not the earth, was the centre of our universe.

Even before Galileo was born, a Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, came to a similar conclusion. He believed that scientists before him and his own contemporaries were wrong in thinking the sun and the planets revolved around the earth. Instead, he reasoned that the earth and the other planets revolved around the sun. But he was afraid to push his views for fear of provoking the ridicule of his peers, and possible excommunication from the Catholic Church.

However, Galileo was more forceful than Copernicus in pushing his ideas. Hence, he got into trouble with the Church.