Kivalina and Newtok don’t exemplify climate crises. Kivalina and Newtok are iconic examples of how the media and governments have ignored the injustices suffered by native peoples, then use their…
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People of the State of California v. Exxon Mobil Corporation
this latest People of the State of California v. ExxonMobil lawsuit is not a watershed legal action in the least, it is little more than a repackaged repetition of prior lawsuits among a…
Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon Mobil, et al. Part 2: RICO-teering
When it comes to unsupportable political assertions and accusations, the above problems and what I covered in Part 1 are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Why Would Naomi Oreskes Be On Retainer With Any Law Firm?
Just askin’. When the defendant energy companies’ law firms start that kind of probing, they may see how Oreskes’ errant and inconsistent narratives are a gift on a silver platter…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #442
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears.…
A 2021 Index to Willis’s Posts
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s February 3rd, 2021. I hadn’t updated my index since 2018, so I decided to do so. Not an easy task, but I beat it…
City and County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP et al.
From Gelbspan Files Politicians in Hawaii were threatening to sue Big Energy companies last November for damages from the effects of man-caused global warming. As seen in their press release…
The Eleventh Tenth First Climate Change Refugees
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading over and over about the world’s “First Climate Change Refugees”. As near as I can keep count, we are already up to…
Oreskes et al. amicus brief to CA global warming lawsuits implodes
Foreword: Laughable as the Green New Deal is, it’s built on the false premise that global warming science is settled. The less newsy courtroom angle is built on that cornerstone…
BBC – The World’s Top Climate Scientists, who are they? (Answer: activists)
Dennis Ambler writes: The BBC is referring to the authors of the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of 1.5 deg C of warming over pre-industrial, as the World’s Top…
BREAKING: California judge tosses global warming lawsuit against oil companies
Judge Alsup just a few moments ago issued his Opinion and Order shutting down this ridiculous litigation against B.P., Chevron, and others. He made it easy on himself by asserting…
USDOJ: Climate lawsuits 'violate constitutional principles'
From the “that’s going to leave a mark” department. By SPENCER WALRATH The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last Thursday filed an amicus brief in the cases filed by San Francisco and Oakland against energy…
A New Index to Willis’s Posts
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, my old index to my posts was out of date, and I finally got tired of not being able to find things that I’ve…
At #AGU17, in an attempt to prove ‘climate change creates more severe weather’, scientists resort to ‘p-hacking’
From the “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.- Ernest Rutherford” department. From the American Meteorological Society via press release: AMS TO RELEASE REPORT EXPLAINING…
The Greens versus "Big Oil"
Guest essay by Russell Cook If you are an enviro-activist with access to lawyers and mega-money who believes that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) is caused by evil fossil fuel…
The Ninth First Climate Refugees
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update] Well, the claims of the “first climate refugees” are coming up again. I think we’re up to the ninth first climate refugees, it’s…
Alaska Governor: We need more oil drilling to pay for Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Governor Bill Walker of Alaska has demanded oil company be granted access to protected Alaskan wildernesses, to raise the money needed to pay for helping…
Climate Persuasion – or how to ignore data and influence people
One line summary of story: A critique of two typical articles on “dangerous” AGW – Kivalina, and the Southern Ocean Guest essay by Peter Kemmis Over the last few days,…
Will the Cost of the Climate Wars be the BBC's Integrity?
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University. On July 29, 2013 the BBC’s Hardtalk journalist Stephen Sackur wrote “The Alaskan village set…
Nature editorial dashes alarmist hopes of linking extreme weather events to global warming
Somewhere, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. is polishing his red button and Bill McKibben, Joe Romm, and “forecast the facts” Brad Johnson are clawing their eyes out trying to unsee this.…
The End Holocene, or How to Make Out Like a 'Madoff' Climate Change Insurer
Guest post by William F. McClenney This post is essentially an update to The Antithesis and On “Trap Speed”, the ACC and the SNR. The entire non-debate on anthropogenic climate…
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