Climategate--The Final Chapter
04-14-2016, 12:55 PM
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Back for more, eh?
Fixed ^^^^^ it for you.
Do you fly electric airplanes or are you an enviro-hypocrite, too, like Al Gore and most other warmers are?
Billions and billions of people, all breathing and emitting CO2. When is the next Holocaust planned, Adolf?
Originally Posted by Flytolive
Fixed ^^^^^ it for you.
Do you fly electric airplanes or are you an enviro-hypocrite, too, like Al Gore and most other warmers are?
Billions and billions of people, all breathing and emitting CO2. When is the next Holocaust planned, Adolf?
04-16-2016, 07:01 AM
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Article by Adrian Vance.
To date, our government has spent $550 billion promoting the concept of anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming, renamed “climate change” by pollster Frank Luntz Ph.D. The money paid for dubious studies, educational programs, buying the National Science Foundation and several educational publishers. According to Forbes Magazine, “climate change” cost America seven trillion Dollars in money misspent, bureaus and repressive regulations. Now they are talking about putting dissenters in jail, much in the manner of Russia and China. The end is not in sight. Why should this be? The truth is amazingly simple.
The atmosphere has three principle gases: Nitrogen, 78%, oxygen 18%, water vapor varies between one to four percent and the “trace gases:” argon, 0.93%, CO2, 0.039%, methane 0.0018% helium, hydrogen and on with most very hard to detect much less quantify.
Water vapor is both variable and troublesome. It changes state in the range of Earth temperatures and what it changes to harms instruments. For that reason, water vapor was omitted from early atmospheric science. All work done with “air” was dry air. It was not until the 20th century the importance of water vapor was realized, but again it is ignored by “global warming” and “climate change” panic pushers.
The “dirty little secret of climate change” is that water vapor does 99.9% of all atmospheric heating as it is the only gas in sufficient quantity absorbing infrared, long wave, radiation from sunlight, increasing its activity that we interpret it as higher temperature. Temperature is not a physical entity; it is a measure of molecular activity.
CO2 is a “trace gas” in air and insignificant by definition. It absorbs 1/7th as much IR, heat energy, from sunlight per molecule as water vapor which has 188 times as many molecules capturing seven times 188 = 1316 times as much heat to produce 99.9% of all “global warming.” CO2 does only 0.1% of it. For this we should destroy our economy, starve people of the world, cause hunger riots and wars? No, “climate change” is about political power and tax money.
Co2When a scientist talks about “greenhouse gases” he is telling his colleagues to “Give me some slack and I will return the favor.” It is the Ph.D. code of comity as there are no “greenhouse gases.” Scientists chuckle at politicians using such terms as they know history will slap them silly for being gullible. Such courtesies are common in academia. Academia is corrupt as politics.
A greenhouse has a solid, clear cover, usually glass, but plastic, or water, work in the same way as their molecules are in contact to form surfaces. In gases they are not. At any angle below 45º clear solids, or liquids, are total reflectors. Solar panels are useless until after 9:00 AM and after 3:00 PM as they have glass protective covers over the silicon cells. Nothing enters the medium until after 9 AM or after 3 PM. All solar light energy bounces off.
At 45º, 39% of the energy passes through clear glass and into the enclosed space. The percentage passing increases as the sine of the angle to 100% at 90º. The same is true for water and the reason you can only see into water for a lateral distance equal to the height of your eye over water.
At any greater distance water reflects the sky. This is a narrow window and it is a trap, but requires the formation of a surface. Solids and liquids can form surfaces. Gases cannot and never function as “greenhouse” traps. “Greenhouse gas” is a comity code in academic fraud and a tool for panic pushing politicians, but this is not the last of their lies.
The Medieval Warming from 800 AD to 1300 AD Micheal Mann erased for his “hockey stick” was the six to eight Fahrenheit degrees warmer “global warmers” fear. It was 500 years of world peace and abundance, longest ever. Europe was awash with grain and Vikings were grazing sheep in Greenland. Michael inserted a “correction” in the temperature records of the period and made it flat for his “hockey stick” in perhaps the most famous lie told by the global warmers, but they are masters at ignoring inconvenient truths.
The Russian contribution to the International Geophysical Year of 1958 was the Antarctic Vostock Station ice core drilling through the mile thick ice covering the entire continent to get ice cores containing bubbles of air from geologic antiquity. Analysis revealed CO2 increases followed temperature by 800 years 19 times in 450,000 years.
The relationship is such that temperature change is cause and CO2 change is effect. This alone refutes the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, but it is a simple fact never making the evening news or Weather Channel where Dr. Heidi Cullen held forth with her “facts” all Florida would soon be under water and millions of people would drown from the rapidly melting ice.
Dr. Cullen claimed methane is “a greenhouse gas 20 to 500 times more potent than CO2!” That claim alone revealed her incompetence and why she was fired from The Weather Channel. The IR energy absorption chart at the American Meteorological Society tells the story. The methane absorption profile is very similar to nitrogen which is classified “transparent” to IR, heat waves and is only present with18 parts per million, 0.0018% which is spells “insignificance” in bold face numerals. “Vegans” blame methane in cow flatulence for global warming in their war against meat consumption. They are big “global warmer climate changers.”
Carbon combustion generates 80% of our energy. Control and taxing of carbon would give the elected ruling class more power and money than anything since the Magna Carta of 1215 AD.
Most scientists and science educators work for tax supported institutions. They are eager to help government raise more money for them and they love being seen as “saving the planet.”
To date, our government has spent $550 billion promoting the concept of anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming, renamed “climate change” by pollster Frank Luntz Ph.D. The money paid for dubious studies, educational programs, buying the National Science Foundation and several educational publishers. According to Forbes Magazine, “climate change” cost America seven trillion Dollars in money misspent, bureaus and repressive regulations. Now they are talking about putting dissenters in jail, much in the manner of Russia and China. The end is not in sight. Why should this be? The truth is amazingly simple.
The atmosphere has three principle gases: Nitrogen, 78%, oxygen 18%, water vapor varies between one to four percent and the “trace gases:” argon, 0.93%, CO2, 0.039%, methane 0.0018% helium, hydrogen and on with most very hard to detect much less quantify.
Water vapor is both variable and troublesome. It changes state in the range of Earth temperatures and what it changes to harms instruments. For that reason, water vapor was omitted from early atmospheric science. All work done with “air” was dry air. It was not until the 20th century the importance of water vapor was realized, but again it is ignored by “global warming” and “climate change” panic pushers.
The “dirty little secret of climate change” is that water vapor does 99.9% of all atmospheric heating as it is the only gas in sufficient quantity absorbing infrared, long wave, radiation from sunlight, increasing its activity that we interpret it as higher temperature. Temperature is not a physical entity; it is a measure of molecular activity.
CO2 is a “trace gas” in air and insignificant by definition. It absorbs 1/7th as much IR, heat energy, from sunlight per molecule as water vapor which has 188 times as many molecules capturing seven times 188 = 1316 times as much heat to produce 99.9% of all “global warming.” CO2 does only 0.1% of it. For this we should destroy our economy, starve people of the world, cause hunger riots and wars? No, “climate change” is about political power and tax money.
Co2When a scientist talks about “greenhouse gases” he is telling his colleagues to “Give me some slack and I will return the favor.” It is the Ph.D. code of comity as there are no “greenhouse gases.” Scientists chuckle at politicians using such terms as they know history will slap them silly for being gullible. Such courtesies are common in academia. Academia is corrupt as politics.
A greenhouse has a solid, clear cover, usually glass, but plastic, or water, work in the same way as their molecules are in contact to form surfaces. In gases they are not. At any angle below 45º clear solids, or liquids, are total reflectors. Solar panels are useless until after 9:00 AM and after 3:00 PM as they have glass protective covers over the silicon cells. Nothing enters the medium until after 9 AM or after 3 PM. All solar light energy bounces off.
At 45º, 39% of the energy passes through clear glass and into the enclosed space. The percentage passing increases as the sine of the angle to 100% at 90º. The same is true for water and the reason you can only see into water for a lateral distance equal to the height of your eye over water.
At any greater distance water reflects the sky. This is a narrow window and it is a trap, but requires the formation of a surface. Solids and liquids can form surfaces. Gases cannot and never function as “greenhouse” traps. “Greenhouse gas” is a comity code in academic fraud and a tool for panic pushing politicians, but this is not the last of their lies.
The Medieval Warming from 800 AD to 1300 AD Micheal Mann erased for his “hockey stick” was the six to eight Fahrenheit degrees warmer “global warmers” fear. It was 500 years of world peace and abundance, longest ever. Europe was awash with grain and Vikings were grazing sheep in Greenland. Michael inserted a “correction” in the temperature records of the period and made it flat for his “hockey stick” in perhaps the most famous lie told by the global warmers, but they are masters at ignoring inconvenient truths.
The Russian contribution to the International Geophysical Year of 1958 was the Antarctic Vostock Station ice core drilling through the mile thick ice covering the entire continent to get ice cores containing bubbles of air from geologic antiquity. Analysis revealed CO2 increases followed temperature by 800 years 19 times in 450,000 years.
The relationship is such that temperature change is cause and CO2 change is effect. This alone refutes the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, but it is a simple fact never making the evening news or Weather Channel where Dr. Heidi Cullen held forth with her “facts” all Florida would soon be under water and millions of people would drown from the rapidly melting ice.
Dr. Cullen claimed methane is “a greenhouse gas 20 to 500 times more potent than CO2!” That claim alone revealed her incompetence and why she was fired from The Weather Channel. The IR energy absorption chart at the American Meteorological Society tells the story. The methane absorption profile is very similar to nitrogen which is classified “transparent” to IR, heat waves and is only present with18 parts per million, 0.0018% which is spells “insignificance” in bold face numerals. “Vegans” blame methane in cow flatulence for global warming in their war against meat consumption. They are big “global warmer climate changers.”
Carbon combustion generates 80% of our energy. Control and taxing of carbon would give the elected ruling class more power and money than anything since the Magna Carta of 1215 AD.
Most scientists and science educators work for tax supported institutions. They are eager to help government raise more money for them and they love being seen as “saving the planet.”
04-16-2016, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Vital Signs
Article by Adrian Vance.
The "science" given by Vance is completely wrong. Anything about climate change is seen as a great liberal conspiracy that Vance is so certain of, that he does not check his facts. He totally misunderstands radiative forcing. He thinks the greenhouse effect means that the earth is surrounded by a glass shell.
Richard Muller of UC Berkeley, in a study funded by the Koch Brothers (see BerkeleyEarth.org), demonstrated that the two major factors for climate change over the last 250 years are volcanic eruptions and greenhouse gases. Neither effect is based on chemical reactions, but rather on the electromagnetic spectrum absorption characteristics of atmospheric gases and particulates.
Here is Vance's bio. Citing this fellow is a clear symptom of DD, denier desperation.
Trained as a science teacher, with eight years classroom experience, he has been writing professionally since the age of 15. He was the youngest person to have published a paper in the Illinois Academy of Science journal at 17 as his biology teacher was the selector for that year and had asked him to write a short piece on his curriculum ideas and it got into the submission pile apparently by accident. The paper suggesting a revision in the science curriculum was well received. While the incident was a fiasco it changed the focus of his life.
During his college years he worked on the school newspaper, primarily as a photographer and did an occasional feature, some of which caused him to be called to the Dean's office. "You don't like the way we do things here?" was the usual opening remark followed by the expected suggestion.
After his third year, exhausted and feeling rudderless, he left for one year, but returned, when Sputnik and Admiral Rickover's books documented a crisis in American education. He felt called to the classroom and completed a B.S. in Physical Science at Illinois State University with a major in chemistry, minors in biology, physics and education. He did graduate work in both Illinois and California completing a California Life Diploma teaching credential in 1962.
While teaching he saw many needs and opportunities in educational publishing so he wrote and produced educational materials, primarily filmstrips and sound recordings. He also wrote for photographic magazines as film work put him in touch with many photographic and production problems. He has 325 screen credits in educational, industrial film and filmstrip as a writer-producer. In 1976 he won the Learning Magazine "Best of the Year" award for his "You in the Universe" filmstrip series and the New York Film and Television Festival Silver Medal for "An Introduction to Cells" filmstrip series.
For a complete database of Adrian's school market publications please click on [WorldCat.org] and you will see them listed by series title and publisher. Each series title included four to 30 filmstrips and all are not fully listed in this database. The grand total is 325 titles.
Over that 30 years Mr. Vance also wrote other material: two books, published in New York: "UFO's: The Eye and the Camera" for Barlenmir House and "Audiovisual Production" for Amphoto Books. He wrote and illustrated over 100 features and columns for photography magazines. He was a Founding Contributing Editor for Peterson's PhotoGraphic Magazine and the West Coast Editor of Popular Photography from 1974 to 1978, writing a monthly column for the magazine. As a result of underwater photography work he contributed to SKIN DIVER magazine in the 70's. His "Timing Waves to Enter The Sea" article, first appearing in SKIN DIVER, is now a chapter in a classified U.S. Navy Seals training manual.
"UFO's, The Eye and the Camera" documents his "Two channel information theory for the analysis of events simultaneously seen and photographed." It is the first comparative analysis of vision and photography written with the idea of combining information from both sources into a single analysis that can be used scientifically and forensically.
Mr. Vance is also credited with solving the mystery of how complete maps of Earth were drawn in antiquity and he rediscovered Captain Cook's secret method of locating Pacific islands so well their positions have only recently been improved. He is cited with discovering the method in the seventh edition of "The Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings," by Dr. Charles Hapgood and he later contributed to a definitive article on cartography in antiquity for The Smithsonian Magazine as they confirmed his method.
On February 19, 1976 Mr. Vance got a "Certificate of Appreciation" award from the Los Angeles Police Department "in grateful recognition of his generosity in make available to officers of this Department the talents and training of his German Shepherd, Boris. The ready willingness of Mr. Adrian Vance to become involved and to make available his valuable dog in a potentially hazardous situation deserves the gratitude and approbation of the entire Los Angeles Police Department." This incident was critical to the LAPD administration's realization that trained dogs could be of value in police work and they are now employed by the LAPD.
When the computer replaced film the school market audio-visual field he switched horses at full gallop and produced 460 computer educational disk systems for the Apple II computer over 15 years. During that time he became a professional broadcaster in the 90's to promote the State Water bond issue in Santa Barbara, California as he felt it was critical for the town. He was publicly credited for having been one of the top ten reasons the measure passed thanks to his book "Drought in Paradise" and radio work.
The collapse of his software business when Apple Computer discontinued the "II" machine line in 1995 crystallized the failure of his second marriage. With no clear direction in the school market supplemental materials field he sought a career in broadcasting in Las Vegas, Nevada doing shows on both KDWN and KXNT. This was unsatisfying due to the "star" economics of commercial radio where a few performers make millions and everyone else starves.
Mr. Vance has also been a day trader, strategist, system developer and author on the equities markets and trading. He now trades stock, land and develops residential property. His website and trading information service, "The Stock Surfer" was a leading Internet service for seven years. He has been developing "The Young Americans" series of Young Adult novels promoting conservative values as well as his personal memoir, "A Long Way From Normal." You can buy Adrian Vance' books or downloads at: Adrian Vance's Books and Publications Spotlight.
December 21, 2010 he was awarded US. Patent 7,855,061 for his "Fuel Farm" that makes a gasoline equivalent 100 Octane fuel, butanol, from CO2, water and sunlight with algae and bacteria. You can see the full disclosure websites regarding his inventions at: http://SCAF.i8.com and index
04-16-2016, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Flytolive
Still having trouble with that rate of change concept, eh? Let me guess, calculus wasn't your favorite subject.
04-16-2016, 07:41 AM
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Carbon combustion generates 80% of our energy. Control and taxing of carbon would give the elected ruling class more power and money than anything since the Magna Carta of 1215 AD.
Most scientists and science educators work for tax supported institutions. They are eager to help government raise more money for them and they love being seen as “saving the planet.”
This is the very core of the "global warming" fraud and theft. And you will never see it seriously addressed or honestly debated by the fear-mongering warmer crowd, as it thoroughly exposes their socio-economic agenda.
The FACT is that the warmer crowd doesn't give 2 chits about the environment. If they did their actions would align with their words and they would stop driving cars, flying airplanes, and in all other ways demonstrate the sincerity of their belief. The fact that they don't (and won't) tells you everything you need to know.
You see, there is no $$$ in cleaning up the oceans or "saving the rainforests". But when they came up with "global warming", the warmers suddenly saw the $$$ potential and they've been pumping that garbage ever since.
04-16-2016, 08:36 AM
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Sounds like a well rounded individual.
04-16-2016, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Vital Signs
Sounds like a well rounded individual.
04-18-2016, 05:05 AM
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Well, well, well.
The Washington Times got it's hands on emails (ie. the smoking gun <read: proof>) between the enviro-freaks and the progressive Attorney Generals abusing the power of their offices in colluding to use the courts to violate the 2nd Amendment and intimidate anyone who disagrees with them re: the so-called "climate change" (previously known as "global warming") with the threat of legal prosecution.
I have highlighted in red the names and positions of the fascists involved.
Have a look...
Funny how the fear-mongering warmers posting here don't want to touch this topic, isn't it?
Jawhol mein herr.
The Washington Times got it's hands on emails (ie. the smoking gun <read: proof>) between the enviro-freaks and the progressive Attorney Generals abusing the power of their offices in colluding to use the courts to violate the 2nd Amendment and intimidate anyone who disagrees with them re: the so-called "climate change" (previously known as "global warming") with the threat of legal prosecution.
I have highlighted in red the names and positions of the fascists involved.
Have a look...
Democratic AGs, climate change groups colluded on prosecuting dissenters, emails show
April 17, 2016
In the hours before they took the stage for their March 29 press conference, Democratic attorneys general received a secret briefing from two top environmentalists on pursuing climate change dissenters.
Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Accountability Institute’s Matt Pawa spent 45 minutes each providing talking points behind the scenes on “the imperative of taking action now” and “climate change litigation,” according to a cache of emails released over the weekend by the free market Energy & Environmental Legal Institute.
For climate change groups, the New York press event was the culmination of four years of planning and advocacy in support of an explosive proposition: using the legal system to link fossil fuel firms and others challenging the catastrophic global warming consensus to fraud and even racketeering, the emails and other documents show.
The effort paid off.
At the press conference, which included former Vice President Al Gore, a coalition of 16 Democratic attorneys general and one independent — Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker — announced that they would use the power of state government to explore legal avenues to challenge climate change dissent.
Four of the attorneys general have reportedly launched investigations into Exxon Mobil Corp., and Mr. Walker has issued a subpoena for 10 years worth of climate change documents and communications from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank.
Mr. Walker also issued a subpoena last month to Exxon Mobil, citing the territory’s laws against racketeering. The company filed a motion Wednesday to block the subpoena in Texas state court.
David Schnare, legal counsel for E&E, called on the coalition, operating under the name AGs United for Clean Power, to reveal its relationship with the climate change movement.
“We call on these AGs to immediately halt their investigation and lay out for the public the full extent of this collusion, producing all records or information provided them in briefings or other work with the outside activists, including those they are trying to keep secret through a Common Interest Agreement,” Mr. Schnare said in a Friday statement.
He highlighted a March 30 email from Mr. Pawa telling two members of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s staff about a call from a Wall Street Journal reporter about his attendance at the press conference.
Mr. Pawa asked, “What should I say if she asks if I attended? No comment?”
Lemuel Srolovic, environmental protection bureau chief for the New York attorney general, advised Mr. Pawa to say nothing about his participation.
“My advice is if you speak to the reporter, to not confirm that you attended or otherwise discuss the event,” Mr. Srolovic says in the email.
Mr. Pawa said in a Sunday email to The Washington Times that it is “inaccurate in attributing to me the idea that lawsuits should be used to achieve political outcomes.”
“I have always been consistent in my position that lawsuits should be brought to remedy legal wrongs,” Mr. Pawa said in an email.
The New York attorney general’s office told Reuters that it routinely seeks input from outside organizations but pursues cases based only on the merits.
The push for legal action against climate change dissent dates back to June 2012 when climate groups held a workshop, Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
Last year, a coalition of environmentalists and lawmakers led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, petitioned the Justice Department to file a racketeering lawsuit against “corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.”
The collection of emails sheds new light on the close working relationship between the climate change movement and Democratic lawmakers.
The emails were obtained under the Vermont Public Records Law. Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell’s office helped Mr. Schneiderman’s staff organize the event.
In a March 30 email, Vermont Assistant Attorney General Scott Kline recommended changing the name of the Exxon/Fossil Fuel Company Investigations working group by removing the word “investigations.”
“Not all of the states have yet opened a formal investigation and there is some sensitivity here (and I suspect in some other states) to saying or indicating we have,” Mr. Kline said in an email to Mr. Srolovic.
He also recommended removing the word “progressive” from the “Climate Coalition of Attorneys General Pledge,” which originally stated, “We pledge to work together to fully enforce the State and federal laws that require progressive action on climate change and that prohibit false and misleading statements to the public, consumers and investors regarding climate change.”
Elsewhere, Mr. Kline objects to an effort by Mr. Schneiderman’s office to enter into a common interest agreement that would enable the coalition’s communications, including those with outside groups, to be protected by the privilege and thus exempt from public disclosure laws.
“Our thought has been that anyone providing anything in writing at the conference should assume that it may get produced because of some state’s public records laws,” Mr. Kline says in a March 28 email. “Matt and Peter should stick to what is in the public domain or be prepared to have those materials become public.”
Mr. Schnare said the emails “show Schneiderman’s office suggested their outside-activist green allies deceive the press; meanwhile, AGs in his coalition have subpoenaed at least one policy group’s correspondence with the media.” His reference was to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Joining Mr. Schneiderman, Mr. Sorrell and Mr. Walker at the press conference were Attorneys General George Jepsen of Connecticut, Brian E. Frosh of Maryland, Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Mark Herring of Virginia.
“As we all know, global warming, if not reversed, will be catastrophic for our planet,” said Mr. Sorrell. “We, the states, have a role to play in this endeavor and intend to do our part.”
Several Republican attorneys general have called the coalition’s effort an attack on free speech.
“This scientific and political debate is healthy, and it should be encouraged,” said a March 30 joint statement by Attorneys General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma and Luther Strange of Alabama.
“It should not be silenced with threats of criminal prosecution by those who believe that their position is the only correct one and that all dissenting voices must therefore be intimidated and coerced into silence,” they said. “It is inappropriate for State Attorneys General to use the power of their office to attempt to silence core political speech on one of the major policy debates of our time.”
Both have joined a lawsuit filed by 26 attorneys general challenging the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which requires strict emissions reductions in the name of combating climate change.
Democratic AGs, climate change groups colluded on prosecuting dissenters, emails show - Washington Times
April 17, 2016
In the hours before they took the stage for their March 29 press conference, Democratic attorneys general received a secret briefing from two top environmentalists on pursuing climate change dissenters.
Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Accountability Institute’s Matt Pawa spent 45 minutes each providing talking points behind the scenes on “the imperative of taking action now” and “climate change litigation,” according to a cache of emails released over the weekend by the free market Energy & Environmental Legal Institute.
For climate change groups, the New York press event was the culmination of four years of planning and advocacy in support of an explosive proposition: using the legal system to link fossil fuel firms and others challenging the catastrophic global warming consensus to fraud and even racketeering, the emails and other documents show.
The effort paid off.
At the press conference, which included former Vice President Al Gore, a coalition of 16 Democratic attorneys general and one independent — Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker — announced that they would use the power of state government to explore legal avenues to challenge climate change dissent.
Four of the attorneys general have reportedly launched investigations into Exxon Mobil Corp., and Mr. Walker has issued a subpoena for 10 years worth of climate change documents and communications from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank.
Mr. Walker also issued a subpoena last month to Exxon Mobil, citing the territory’s laws against racketeering. The company filed a motion Wednesday to block the subpoena in Texas state court.
David Schnare, legal counsel for E&E, called on the coalition, operating under the name AGs United for Clean Power, to reveal its relationship with the climate change movement.
“We call on these AGs to immediately halt their investigation and lay out for the public the full extent of this collusion, producing all records or information provided them in briefings or other work with the outside activists, including those they are trying to keep secret through a Common Interest Agreement,” Mr. Schnare said in a Friday statement.
He highlighted a March 30 email from Mr. Pawa telling two members of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s staff about a call from a Wall Street Journal reporter about his attendance at the press conference.
Mr. Pawa asked, “What should I say if she asks if I attended? No comment?”
Lemuel Srolovic, environmental protection bureau chief for the New York attorney general, advised Mr. Pawa to say nothing about his participation.
“My advice is if you speak to the reporter, to not confirm that you attended or otherwise discuss the event,” Mr. Srolovic says in the email.
Mr. Pawa said in a Sunday email to The Washington Times that it is “inaccurate in attributing to me the idea that lawsuits should be used to achieve political outcomes.”
“I have always been consistent in my position that lawsuits should be brought to remedy legal wrongs,” Mr. Pawa said in an email.
The New York attorney general’s office told Reuters that it routinely seeks input from outside organizations but pursues cases based only on the merits.
The push for legal action against climate change dissent dates back to June 2012 when climate groups held a workshop, Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
Last year, a coalition of environmentalists and lawmakers led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, petitioned the Justice Department to file a racketeering lawsuit against “corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.”
The collection of emails sheds new light on the close working relationship between the climate change movement and Democratic lawmakers.
The emails were obtained under the Vermont Public Records Law. Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell’s office helped Mr. Schneiderman’s staff organize the event.
In a March 30 email, Vermont Assistant Attorney General Scott Kline recommended changing the name of the Exxon/Fossil Fuel Company Investigations working group by removing the word “investigations.”
“Not all of the states have yet opened a formal investigation and there is some sensitivity here (and I suspect in some other states) to saying or indicating we have,” Mr. Kline said in an email to Mr. Srolovic.
He also recommended removing the word “progressive” from the “Climate Coalition of Attorneys General Pledge,” which originally stated, “We pledge to work together to fully enforce the State and federal laws that require progressive action on climate change and that prohibit false and misleading statements to the public, consumers and investors regarding climate change.”
Elsewhere, Mr. Kline objects to an effort by Mr. Schneiderman’s office to enter into a common interest agreement that would enable the coalition’s communications, including those with outside groups, to be protected by the privilege and thus exempt from public disclosure laws.
“Our thought has been that anyone providing anything in writing at the conference should assume that it may get produced because of some state’s public records laws,” Mr. Kline says in a March 28 email. “Matt and Peter should stick to what is in the public domain or be prepared to have those materials become public.”
Mr. Schnare said the emails “show Schneiderman’s office suggested their outside-activist green allies deceive the press; meanwhile, AGs in his coalition have subpoenaed at least one policy group’s correspondence with the media.” His reference was to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Joining Mr. Schneiderman, Mr. Sorrell and Mr. Walker at the press conference were Attorneys General George Jepsen of Connecticut, Brian E. Frosh of Maryland, Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Mark Herring of Virginia.
“As we all know, global warming, if not reversed, will be catastrophic for our planet,” said Mr. Sorrell. “We, the states, have a role to play in this endeavor and intend to do our part.”
Several Republican attorneys general have called the coalition’s effort an attack on free speech.
“This scientific and political debate is healthy, and it should be encouraged,” said a March 30 joint statement by Attorneys General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma and Luther Strange of Alabama.
“It should not be silenced with threats of criminal prosecution by those who believe that their position is the only correct one and that all dissenting voices must therefore be intimidated and coerced into silence,” they said. “It is inappropriate for State Attorneys General to use the power of their office to attempt to silence core political speech on one of the major policy debates of our time.”
Both have joined a lawsuit filed by 26 attorneys general challenging the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which requires strict emissions reductions in the name of combating climate change.
Democratic AGs, climate change groups colluded on prosecuting dissenters, emails show - Washington Times
Funny how the fear-mongering warmers posting here don't want to touch this topic, isn't it?
Jawhol mein herr.
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