Paul's article makes it clear that we are in a Ben Franklin moment similar to that faced by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, when Ben noted that "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.", as we face a Democrat and United Nations Inquisition with respect to our adherence to the catechism of catastrophic man-made global warming and weather chaos.
16 April 2016
Paul Driessen on Prosecuting climate chaos skeptics with RICO
Paul Diessen asked me to publish this article on 3 April 2016, but I have been extremely busy in my laboratory, even as we have been very short-handed in the laboratory of late. Today, I am celebrating my relief from the unrewarding effort of doing paperwork for the Individual Rights Suppression IRS) agency of the federal government today by catching up on some blog entries, even as I continue to feed samples into the x-ray photoelectron spectrometer to analyze the surface properties of materials by harnessing radiation and detectors.
Paul's article makes it clear that we are in a Ben Franklin moment similar to that faced by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, when Ben noted that "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.", as we face a Democrat and United Nations Inquisition with respect to our adherence to the catechism of catastrophic man-made global warming and weather chaos.
Paul's article makes it clear that we are in a Ben Franklin moment similar to that faced by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, when Ben noted that "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.", as we face a Democrat and United Nations Inquisition with respect to our adherence to the catechism of catastrophic man-made global warming and weather chaos.
Prosecuting climate
chaos skeptics with RICO
Al Gore, Torquemada
Whitehouse, Democrat AGs threaten to silence and bankrupt skeptics
Paul Driessen
It’s been a rough stretch for Climate Armageddon
religionists and totalitarians.
Real World science, climate and weather events just don’t
support their manmade cataclysm narrative. The horrid consequences of anti-fossil
fuel energy policies are increasingly in the news.
And despite campaigns by the
$1.5-trillion-per-year
government-industry-activist-scientific Climate Crisis Consortium, Americans
consistently rank global warming at the very bottom of their serious concerns.
But instead of debating their critics, or marshaling a more
persuasive, evidence-based case that we really do face a manmade climate
catastrophe, alarmists have ramped up their shrill rhetoric, imposed more anti-hydrocarbon
edicts by executive fiat and unratified treaty – and launched RICO attacks on
their critics.
Spurred on by Senator Sheldon
“Torquemada” Whitehouse (D-RI), Jagadish Shukla and his RICO-20
agitators, and their comrades, 16 of the nation’s 18 Democratic attorneys
general (the other 32 are Republican) announced on March 29 that they are going
after those who commit the unpardonable offense of questioning “consensus”
climate science.
If companies are “committing fraud,” by “knowingly deceiving”
the public about the threat of man-made carbon dioxide emissions and climate
change, New York AG Eric
Schneiderman intoned, “we want to expose it and pursue them to the fullest
extent of the law,” under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
(RICO) Act. “The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit fraud.”
Their initial target is ExxonMobil, but other companies,
think tanks like CFACT and the Heartland Institute (with which I am affiliated),
and even independent researchers and analysts (like myself) will be in their
crosshairs – using a law intended for the Mafia. Incredibly, even United States
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says her office has “discussed” similar actions
and has “referred [the matter] to the FBI.”
These RICO investigations and prosecutions are chilling,
unprecedented and blatantly un-American. They abuse our legal and judicial
processes and obliterate the First Amendment freedom of speech rights of anyone
who questions the catechism of climate cataclysm. The AGs’ actions are intended
to browbeat skeptics into silence, and bankrupt them with monumental legal fees,
fines and treble damages.
It is the campus “crime” of “unwelcome ideas” and
“micro-aggression” on steroids. It is the inevitable result of President
Obama’s determination to “fundamentally transform” the United States, ensure
that electricity rates “necessarily skyrocket,” and carve his energy and
climate policy legacy in granite.
Mr. O and his allies are on a mission: to rid the world of
fossil fuels, replace them with “clean” biofuels (that are also carbon-based
and also emit carbon dioxide when burned, but would require billions of acres
of crop and habitat land) and “eco-friendly” bird-killing wind turbines and
solar installations (that will require millions more acres) – and implement the
goals of a dictatorial United Nations.
Former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change Christiana Figueres put it in the bluntest terms: “We are
setting ourselves the task of intentionally to change [sic] the economic
development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years” – the free
enterprise capitalist system. “The next world climate summit is actually an
economic summit, during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be
negotiated,” her UN climate crisis cohort Otmar Edendorfer added. “We will
redistribute de facto the world’s
wealth by climate policy.”
Thus, under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, developing
nations will be under no obligation to reduce their fossil fuel use or greenhouse
gas emissions. They will simply take voluntary
steps, when doing so will not impair their efforts to drive economic growth and
improve their people’s living standards. Meanwhile, they will be entitled to
share $3 billion to $300 billion per year in “climate change adaptation,
mitigation and reparation” money. In fact, Mr. Obama has already transferred
$500 million in taxpayer money (illegally) from a State Department
emergency fund to the UN’s Green Climate Fund.
No wonder developing nations were thrilled to sign the 2015
Paris not-a-treaty treaty.
Recent headlines portend what’s in store. EU electricity
prices rise 63% over past decade. Rising energy costs, green policies threaten
to kill steel industry and 4,000 to 40,000 jobs, as Tata Steel quits Britain.
Thousands of Europeans lose jobs, as manufacturing moves to countries with
lower energy prices. Unable to afford proper heat, 40,000 Europeans die of
hypothermia during 2014 winter.
In Africa and other
energy-deprived regions: Millions die in 2015 from lung and intestinal diseases
– due to open cooking and heating fires, spoiled food and unsafe water, and absence
of electricity.
Meanwhile, despite mandates, loan
guarantees, feed-in tariffs, endangered species exemptions and other subsidies,
renewable industries are barely surviving: SunEnergy, world’s largest green
energy company, faces bankruptcy, as share prices fall 95% in one year. Solar
company Abengoa US files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy. China stops building wind
turbines, as grid is damaged and most electricity is wasted.
But Climate Crisis ruling elites pay little attention to
this. They will be insulated, enriched, and protected from their decisions and
deceptions – as they decide what energy, jobs, living standards and freedoms
the poor, minority, blue-collar and middle classes will be permitted to have.
Equally disturbing, their drive for total control is based
on a chaotic world that is totally at odds with what the rest of us see outside
our windows. Even after “homogenizing”
and massaging the raw data, climate alarmists can only show that global
temperatures may have risen a few tenths of a degree (barely the margin of
error) during the 2015 El NiƱo year, after 19 years of no temperature increase,
following two decades of slight warming, following three decades of slight
cooling and warming.
On the “extreme weather” front, tornadoes, snows, floods and
droughts are no more frequent or intense than over the past century. No
Category 3-5 hurricane has made US landfall in a record 125 months. Polar ice
remains well within historic
fluctuations, and sea levels are rising at barely seven inches per century.
Alarmists thus rely on computer models that predict even
“worse catastrophes,” if global temperatures rise even 0.5 degrees C (0.8 F)
more than they already have since the Little Ice Age ended and Industrial Era
began. However, the models are hopelessly deficient, and totally unable to
predict the climate.
They overstate the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide
and methane, atmospheric gases chosen because they result from fossil fuel use
(and from many natural sources). They
assume these two gases have become the primary forces in climate change – and ignore
or downplay changing solar energy, cosmic ray and geomagnetic output; major
periodic fluctuations in Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean circulation; volcanic
activity; regional and planetary temperature cycles that recur over multiple
decades, centuries or millennia; and other natural forces that have always
driven planetary warming, cooling and weather.
The models and modelers do this because these factors and
their roles in climate change are not well understood, are difficult to
measure, and do not fit the “humans are at fault” meme. They compound these
errors by assuming that any warming will be
dangerous, rather than beneficial for people and agriculture.
These oversights can be characterized as careless,
recklessly negligent, or even “knowingly deceitful” and fraudulent. So can “nine
inconvenient untruths” that a United Kingdom judge highlighted in Al Gore’s
infamous fake-documentary movie – and Mr. Gore’s recent claim that atmospheric
CO2 is fueling Zika outbreaks. Likewise for James Hansen’s repeated assertion
that sea levels could rise “several meters” (117 inches) over the next century,
and the bogus studies behind the phony “97%
consensus” claims.
Can you picture the cabal of AGs filing RICO actions in
these cases? If you want the facts, and a few chuckles about climate alarmism,
see the Climate Hustle movie, coming
May 2 to a theater near you.
Paul
Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
(www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green
power - Black death.
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