In an item headlined "Threat to global-warming skeptics retracted," Pete Chagnon of OneNewsNow reported on 6/8/2009 that popular left-leaning website recently published some harsh rhetoric concerning deniers of alleged global warming. According to Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com, the left-leaning website TalkingPointsMemo.com recently published an article that issued this public appeal: "At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers?" The article accused "right-wingers" of blocking fixes to the problem of supposed "climate change" and stated that when "end of the world"-type events start to take place, "how will we punish those responsible?" Morano admits he was disturbed by the post because many liberal talk radio hosts and political activists use Talking Points Memo as their go-to source. "Talking Points Memo [is a] very influential site, and what they did -- now it's not isolated, it's not a joke -- what they did is they followed the advice of the environmental leaders who have been championing this kind of behavior for a long time now," he explains. According to Morano, NASA's James Hansen has called for high-crimes trials against global warming skeptics. He adds that even environmentalist activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said skeptics should be tried for treason. Morano contends they are trying to demonize skeptics because they are losing the PR battle with the American public, and the supposed scientific evidence for man-made global warming is starting to crumble. The Talking Points Memo article, originally posted on June 2, has since been removed. Then in an updated note it was reported that the author of the subject article on TalkingPointsMemo.com has formally retracted the article and apologizes for what he describes as his "extremist global warming" blog post. "The whole post was ill-conceived, poorly written -- and not representative of who I am," the author says. "But I did write it, and I take full responsibility for it. My intention was not to wish imprisonment or execution of global warming skeptics." (Full retraction is available at TalkingPointsMemo.com.) Yet, so far as I have read or heard, Hansen and Kennedy have not retracted what they said!