Several of the people featured in Avaaz’s campaign criticized the group for personally attacking them.
“The vilification of me and several other climate realists during a meeting of tens of thousands of alarmists suggests these alarmists are worried that a handful of people speaking the truth threatens the so-called consensus that global warming is a crisis,” Ebell said in a statement.
“It is a shame that climate activists choose to resort to such vitriol and personal attack. It also illustrates their lack of scientific evidence. I am always happy to discuss and debate the science because I am confident the science is on my side. I guess this is what happens when some people don’t have science on their side and feel compelled to lash out,” Taylor wrote in an email.
“The activists brand me a ‘criminal’ because my peer-reviewed research shows all of the carbon-cutting promises made in Paris will cut global temperatures by just 0.05 degrees Celsius in 2100, and because I’ve pointed out this will cost the global economy at least a trillion dollars a year,” wrote Lomborg, who also accused the group of making “silly errors” about his think tank.
The posters were “an exercise in silliness,” Morano told The New York Times.
A spokeswoman for the World Coal Association, which Sporton heads, declined to comment on the Avaaz campaign specifically. Spokespeople for Horner and Wild did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Approximately 50,000 people are expected to attend the COP21 conference, which concludes on Friday and aims to limit global warning and reach a binding, universal agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“The knowledge that the next generation will be better off for what we do here — can we imagine a more worthy reward than that?” President Barack Obama said at the conference’s opening session last week. “Passing that on to our children and our grandchildren, so that when they look back and they see what we did here in Paris, they can take pride in our achievement.”
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