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From the Bend Bulletin:

Editorial: What’s safe to say about climate change?

We would appreciate it if Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum would tell us what we are supposed to say about climate change.

Her office has signed on to an agreement with 16 other attorneys general to potentially conduct investigations, including examining “representations made by companies to investors, consumers and the public regarding fossil fuels, renewable energy and climate change.”

Perhaps Rosenblum’s office could provide all companies in Oregon with a list of talking points and opinions on climate change that won’t make them subject to state investigation.

Is it OK to say there is debate about climate science? Is it OK to say there is uncertainty about how much of a role humans play in climate change? Is it OK to say you don’t believe Bend’s climate change ordinance is going to change the climate?

The agreement among the attorneys general was born in part out of the efforts of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general and another signatory on the agreement. He got Peabody Energy, a large coal producer, to agree to disclose more information to investors about its financial risks. And Schneiderman is investigating whether Exxon Mobil lied in the past to investors and the public about climate change. Attorneys general have subpoena power that gives them the ability to vacuum up a company’s internal documents.

Rosenblum’s office signed on to the joint agreement on April 29. Her office declined this week to say if it was investigating anyone.

Rosenblum did say in a statement in March that climate change in Oregon is real. “My office is committed to working with other state Attorneys General to address the issue, and we will continue to push for and defend stronger federal efforts,” she said. “If we don’t act now, it may soon be too late.”

But that statement evades the important issues at stake in these investigations. What is righthink about climate change? Can the opinions of a company be held as criminal despite the First Amendment? To what extent must companies disclose risks to their businesses from climate change? Is this really about squashing dissent to climate change orthodoxy?

It’s a crazy idea that Rosenblum may be deciding what can be debated about debatable issues.

Source: http://www.bendbulletin.com/opinion/4604489-151/editorial-whats-safe-to-say-about-climate-change

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JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 8:17 am

“Editorial: What’s safe to say about climate change?”
Anything that the author has researched/published in credible high-impact climate-related, peer-reviewed journals.

Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 9:05 am

What about Al Gore?

Bryan A
Reply to  Sam Grove
August 24, 2016 10:28 am

He invented the Al-Gor-ithms that the models all use

Bill Powers
Reply to  Sam Grove
August 24, 2016 10:42 am

Bryan! Nice!!!

John Harmsworth
Reply to  Sam Grove
August 24, 2016 11:45 am

No! He invented the internet and then just looked it up!

Reply to  Sam Grove
August 27, 2016 2:34 pm

I am old enuf to remember Al Gore coining the term “information superhighway.” I hate that term because it WAS Al Gore who invented it. That is all he ever claimed.

betapug
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 9:07 am

This excludes most journalist output and campaigning websites, correct? What a relief!

JohnKnight
Reply to  betapug
August 24, 2016 7:32 pm

Just in case anyone had any doubts about how serious this might get, I recently saw a Clinton campaign mail-out document discussed and shown on a site, which included talk of “mainstream Republican” sorts of websites having the Constitutional right to exist, but others, like ‘Breitbart’ given as example, as not having “the right to exist”.

Reply to  JohnKnight
August 24, 2016 7:46 pm

Credit due to Hil. For such a compulsive liar, she’s pretty straight up about her desire to strip away constitutional recognition of our liberties. That this pleases so many voters is disturbing. It is oppressive living under rulers selected by these woeful people.
Republicans have been revealed to be fake opponents with few exceptions. That’s why she would let them have a license to exercise the fundamental right to express disagreement with the state. They just want some time at the helm for future lobbying credentials. No rollback whatsoever. Probably those two republicans posing as libertarians could get one too.

Bill Powers
Reply to  jamesbbkk
August 25, 2016 2:46 pm

“That this pleases so many voters is disturbing.”
James, that is at the heart of the untold story in 2016, the writing on the bathroom wall, if you will. We have Late Gen X and Millienials in a forced march to socialism on the strength of the tune of the pied piper, as played by Bernie Sanders in this latest stage production. Musical score provided by Post Graduate TA’s With lyrics donated by pot head baby boomers that have been hiding out on university campuses across the nation since 1965.
They have programmed the 50% plus 1 now all they have to do is authorize online voting.

Science or Fiction
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 9:32 am

I think you are naive about articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Have a look at this paper:
Flawed citation practices facilitate the unsubstantiated perception of a global trend toward increased jellyfish blooms
“Here we present a citation analysis of peer-reviewed literature to track the evolution of the current perception of increases in jellyfish and identify key papers involved in its establishment… Analyses showed that 48.9% of publications misinterpreted the conclusions of cited sources, with a bias towards claiming jellyfish populations are increasing, … . Collectively, these disparities resulted in a network based on unsubstantiated statements and citation threads.”
“Indeed, the misconceptions resulting from mis-citation are even more dangerous when they are contained in papers published in highly influential journals, which provide a platform for those papers to be highly cited. Duarte et al. (2015) have argued that poor citation practices are one of the elements that have perpetuated perceptions on ocean calamities (including rising jellyfish populations) that are contributing to an overly negative perception on the state of the ocean.”
Read the paper to see that United Nations played a role in it.

Jim Yushchyshyn
Reply to  Science or Fiction
August 24, 2016 5:32 pm

I believe that Churchill would say that Peer Review is the worst possible system, except for anything else.
If you don’t believe that, come up with a better system, and plan a trip to Stockholm to collect a Nobel Prize.

Science or Fiction
Reply to  Jim Yushchyshyn
August 24, 2016 10:18 pm

The problem isn´t necessarily the peer review system.
The problems are the belief that the peer review system is effective quality control, lack of respect for the risk of group think, lack of understanding about the power of a ruling paradigm, lack of understanding of the problem of induction, that scrutiny is missing from the principles governing IPCC, the introduction of subjective levels of confidence by IPCC, the belief in consensus, the utilization of “science” for United Nations politics. (Check my site for complete arguments and links The fundamental flaws with IPCC – from a scientific point of view!).
In short, the problem is that United Nations has messed up scientific principles. Within science, United Nations has become an international problem of a cultural character, United Nations has become one of the kinds of problems it, by the charter, was put up to create international cooperation in solving.

Reply to  Science or Fiction
August 24, 2016 10:57 pm

Well saide!

ferd berple
Reply to  Science or Fiction
August 25, 2016 10:02 am

United Nations has become one of the kinds of problems it, by the charter, was put up to create international cooperation in solving.
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when someone’s livelihood depends on working to solve a problem, they have a financial incentive to make sure the problem is never solved. otherwise they are working to put themselves out of a job.

Reply to  Science or Fiction
August 27, 2016 2:38 pm

Jim, I think the Mass-Peer-Review system here at WUWT is a method that is superior to the paper journal method. This method did not exist until the internet.

ShrNfr
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 9:48 am

“credible high-impact climate-related, peer-reviewed journals” – I have yet to find such a journal. High-impact? Yeah, found those. Climate-related? Yep, found those too. Peer-reviewed? That is not saying much given who the peers are, but yeah, those too. Credible? Ah there’s the rub. That set is disjoint with the others.

Bryan A
Reply to  ShrNfr
August 24, 2016 10:29 am

One of the longest Oxy-Moronic sentences ever written

Jim Yushchyshyn
Reply to  ShrNfr
August 24, 2016 5:33 pm

Bring on the personal attacks.

Bryan A
Reply to  ShrNfr
August 24, 2016 10:29 pm

Not a personal attack, just an honest observation. I didn’t state anything negative about the author of the statement, I merely pointed out it’s Oxymoronic nature

Brett Keane
Reply to  ShrNfr
August 25, 2016 1:31 am

Jim Yushchyshyn
August 24, 2016 at 5:32 pm: at the risk of feeding yet another troll, I note that JY’s leaders have prostituted peer-review as in their climategate ‘redefinitition’. of it. This stinks like a cartload of rotten fish! So go home.

Gabro
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 9:52 am

You’re joking, right?
The taxpayers who fund corrupt climate “science” have no First Amendment right to question the results of trough-feeding bureaucrats and their pal reviewers?
Were you born and raised in the Soviet Union? Where else could you have gotten such Lysenkoist notions?

Jim Yushchyshyn
Reply to  Gabro
August 24, 2016 5:34 pm

Bring on the personal attacks.

Barbara
Reply to  Gabro
August 27, 2016 6:09 am

JUSTIA Dockets & Filings
Resolute Forest Products, Inc. et al V. Greenpeace International et al
Nature of Suit: RICO
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/georgia/gasdce/1:2016cv00071/69282
Exxon is not the only action taking place.

Reply to  Barbara
August 27, 2016 7:51 am

RICO lawsuits against research universities that crank out crooked global warming studies would be appropriate and would get the attention of upper management.

Gabro
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 10:26 am

Please educate yourself on the bogus, corrupt enterprise of so-called “peer review”:
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific-peer-review/
Science advanced spectacularly without it before the 20th century and has largely been impeded and disgraced by it since then.

Ben of Houston
Reply to  Gabro
August 24, 2016 12:17 pm

Come now Gabro, there’s a big difference between review by your peers and the institution known as “peer review”.
The former has always been done. We have letters written from Gallileo to colleagues asking their opinion on his papers. The issue is with “peer review” as a gatekeeper. This is especially true in climate, as disparate review processes push heavy pressure on anyone who disagrees, but we routinely see stuff on this site that would not pass muster at an elementary school science fair.

Gabro
Reply to  Gabro
August 24, 2016 3:55 pm

Yes, and Kepler of Galileo. And his student encouraged Copernicus to publish. Darwin and Wallace’s joint paper was read to the Linnean Society.
But that isn’t the same process as peer review by a journal in the past century or so.

Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 11:09 am

John,
You forgot the /Sarcon, /Sarcoff labels.

Reply to  Robert Austin
August 24, 2016 1:21 pm

wasn’t he the guy with big shorts on “Buck Rogers”?

Bryan A
Reply to  Robert Austin
August 24, 2016 10:32 pm

Yeah Dr.

Bryan A
Reply to  Robert Austin
August 24, 2016 10:33 pm

Tried it with the brackets (Dr./Sarcoff)

Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 11:31 am

That definition would never pass muster under US law since it grants censorship powers. I think it’s called “prior restraint”.
You’ve never published in a refereed journal have you? They aren’t magic and the role of what you think of as “peer-review” or even a “journal” in an age based on information exchange via the internet is rapidly coming to a close. Visit the site ResearchGate or the pre-publication site arXiv.org for examples.
Or were you just trying to incite blowback yourself?

Reply to  Bartleby
August 24, 2016 11:32 am

If it’s sarcasm, it’s difficult because I think something like that might very easily be proposed in this example…

John Thompson
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 12:40 pm

So this limits the safe-zone to an “author” (Whatever that means.) who has “researched/published” (Both? Either? “Researched” on the Internet? By watching lots of T.V.? By taking a poll?) in “credible” (Who decides that, and according to what standards?) “high-impact” (Who decides that, and according to what standards?) “climate-related” (Who decides that, and according to what standards?) “peer-reviewed journals” (Any particular “peers” in mind — maybe those who are all-in for AGW already, for example — and will there be any other level of review in light of peer-reviewed schlock — even fraudulent material — that has passed “peer review”?).
The Politburo would be proud.

AndyG55
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 1:54 pm

“credible high-impact climate-related, peer-reviewed journals”
Name one that is still credible !!
You don’t know what peer-review is for, do you.
Its for publishing in journals.
It has very little to do with science.

Jonas N
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 2:21 pm

JohnMacdonell
1st comment in this thread … and the ‘argument’ looked so sooo awkward. I had to check if this merely was another drive-by-blather, what one would expect from those who engage in such …
I found this, and looked through this one. Not allt that impressive. Rather what one would expect from a drive-by-blatherer who cannot make a coherent argument about whatever (s)he wants to say ..

James Allison
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 2:44 pm

By your logic the authors of the following failed climate predictions were ‘safe’ to make them because they were based on “researched/published in credible high-impact climate-related, peer-reviewed journals.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/02/the-big-list-of-failed-climate-predictions/

James Allison
Reply to  James Allison
August 24, 2016 2:46 pm

Meant for 1st comment in this thread – JohnMacdonell

Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 8:29 pm

Is safety incompatible with accuracy?

Barbara
Reply to  tobias smit
August 25, 2016 1:46 pm

IWTs have zero reliability.
Oregon residents can just do without power unless they can afford to generate their own power.
Low income residents will be hit the hardest.

JPeden
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 10:39 pm

JohnMacdonell
August 24, 2016 at 8:17 am

“Editorial: What’s safe to say about climate change?”
Anything that the author has researched/published in credible high-impact climate-related, peer-reviewed journals.

John, it sounds like you are only “Begging the Question” of whether *CO2* increases cause Climate Change – which you should instead be trying to prove or disprove – and are therefore only making the usual unscientific appeal to Consensus, so that you can just repeat-away according to The Consensus, and The Consensus on The Consensus, etc.
But according to your own rule, you have to have “researched/published,etc” in order to say anything about CO2-Climate Change, including what you just said. In other words, you seem to state a version of “Only a ‘real’ Climate Scientist can say anything about CO2-Climate Change.” Are you a “Real Climate Scientist” who fits your prescription as to what can be said about CO2-Climate Change?
I’ll take what you’ve said above as a “no” even though it sounds a lot like their “method”. But regardless, why would you want to repeat only what other people have said? Perhaps because you know nothing about real Science and know you are not competent to even read a Study which says what someone has said about a scientific issue?
I’d bet the Oregon AG would be in full agreement with you, for the same reasons but also for the benefit of The Rigged.
On the other hand, I don’t have to follow your or the Oregon AG’s rules and practices as to what can be said, at least not until after you’ve disarmed me, taken Anthony Watts and my Daughters hostage, or the Nation’s First Lucyfer is in full control.
So I’ll say, “CO2 increases have been only alleged to cause Climate Change starting at 1950. But those hypotheses have already been Scientifically Falsified by the “Real Climate Scientists'” [100%] record of Prediction Failure.”
Come and get it.

Reply to  JPeden
August 25, 2016 10:36 am

If today’s climate models made predictions they would be susceptible to falsification. However, they make “projections.” Unlike predictions projections lack truth-values; thus they cannot be falsified.

Reply to  Terry Oldberg
August 25, 2016 12:01 pm

Terry, you have hit upon the answer!
The IPCC can now “project” the demise of fossil fueled combustion. That way they can declare victory and we all go home to a real life.

Reply to  dogdaddyblog
August 25, 2016 4:03 pm

dogdaddy:
I wish it were that simple. The root cause for nonsensical public policy on global warming seems to me to be failure to provide adequate training in logic to our students. A consequence from lack of adequate training is for models to be built that supply no information to a regulator about the outcomes from his/her policy decisions and for regulators to attempt regulation of the climate on the basis of no information because no regulators know that a regulator needs information..

Santa Baby
Reply to  JohnMacdonell
August 25, 2016 1:14 am

“Editorial: What’s safe to say about climate change?”
Conformity to the political established UNFCCC?

August 24, 2016 8:18 am

I have prepared a clear and safe statement anyone can use:
Climate is complicated.

Reply to  Mike Smith
August 24, 2016 8:46 am

Heretic! This is an obvious dog whistle statement. If climate is complicated then it means there is room for debate.
The reeducation camps are to your left. Don’t forget to pick up your uniform.

Sweet Old Bob
Reply to  Frank Lee MeiDere
August 24, 2016 9:07 am

They get clothes? One size fits all ? 😉

Reply to  Frank Lee MeiDere
August 24, 2016 10:01 am

Of course. They’re supplied by the Procrustes Clothing Manufacture: “Our clothes are the right size; it’s you that needs modification.”

Bryan A
Reply to  Frank Lee MeiDere
August 24, 2016 10:31 am

No, Sweet Old Bob, not clothes…Just old dirty pillowcases with Arm holes and a Head hole.
Clothes sets you free

Reply to  Frank Lee MeiDere
August 24, 2016 11:06 am

Bryan A,

Clothes sets you free

No, a sock freely given sets you free! (but I guess that counts as clothes.) 🙁

Jim Yushchyshyn
Reply to  Frank Lee MeiDere
August 24, 2016 5:35 pm

Room for informed debate.

ferdberple
Reply to  Frank Lee MeiDere
August 25, 2016 11:08 am

Just old dirty pillowcases with Arm holes and a Head hole.
============
AGW is a hair shirt. We must scourge ourselves to prove our worthiness to do God’s work on Earth.

betapug
Reply to  Mike Smith
August 24, 2016 9:09 am

Complicated? You are not allowed to say that!, 97% agree it is simple and settled

michael hart
Reply to  betapug
August 24, 2016 3:14 pm

‘Too complicated for the likes of us’, is the usual implied message.

gnomish
Reply to  Mike Smith
August 24, 2016 9:33 am

i’ve got an acronym – FOF.

george e. smith
Reply to  Mike Smith
August 24, 2016 10:10 am

What climate ??
Even simpler; and the ball is back in their court.
G

bugenator
Reply to  Mike Smith
August 24, 2016 10:37 am

Oh No, It has to be “The science is settled, we need grant money for further studies”

Reply to  Mike Smith
August 24, 2016 1:22 pm

I’ll take Liberty!

jorgekafkazar
Reply to  Scott Frasier
August 24, 2016 3:06 pm

97% of all “liberals” prefer Free Stuff to Liberty.

FJ Shepherd
August 24, 2016 8:20 am

How many “heretics” while on the rack in the 13th century explained the Holy Trinity adequately?

August 24, 2016 8:23 am

Where are the principled scientists? Do they support free Inquisition only why the Inquisition supports their side? Every scientist should be outraged, yet there is deafening silence. Pathetic, and more reason we need to totally restaff our research universities. They have us headed in the wrong direction.

Reply to  CO2isLife
August 24, 2016 10:23 am

CO2isLife:
Well, for a start in 1998 over 31,000 American scientists signed the Global Warming Petition.
The problem isn’t that there are no Scientists prepared to speak. the problem is that the MSM ignores them so the general public don’t know about them.

Reply to  Oldseadog
August 24, 2016 12:30 pm

and they all have pet unicorns

Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 24, 2016 3:48 pm

Do those come from the same stables as the “man causes all of the warming, except when he wasn’t there for it” ponies? Ah, ha! When the weeds form a maze, Mr. Mosher’s irrepressible wanderings apparently lead in circles.

MarkW
Reply to  Oldseadog
August 24, 2016 1:14 pm

The denial is strong in this one.

AndyG55
Reply to  Oldseadog
August 24, 2016 1:56 pm

“Where are the principled scientists?”
Well Mosh sure missed out on getting on that list. !!

Harry Passfield
Reply to  Oldseadog
August 24, 2016 1:57 pm

You are a sad, sad man, Steven Mosher. Humankind has as much chance of effecting – or even changing – the climate to one that you and yours deem to be ideal (such hubris!) as it has of effecting the outcome of the earthquake in Italy. But perhaps you think that was caused by AGW.

SkepticGoneWild
Reply to  Oldseadog
August 24, 2016 6:27 pm

Mosh,
Go get a science education. Your English degree just doesn’t cut it. Why anyone listens to your garbage is beyond belief.

Joel Snider
Reply to  Oldseadog
August 26, 2016 12:26 pm

Mosher: ‘and they all have pet unicorns.’
I made a computer generated pet unicorn on my graphics program the other day.
Amazing what you can do with CGI.

August 24, 2016 8:25 am

These AGs should be impeached or if possible dismissed or recalled, disbarred, and prohibted from holding any office or government job again, for conspiring to deprive us of our fundamental constitutionally-recognized liberties using their state offices and state powers.

commieBob
Reply to  jamesbbkk
August 24, 2016 9:25 am

One of the brilliant things about the constitution is that it anticipated that the government might actually be the problem.

… Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, …

One of the tricky bits about democracy is the tyranny of the majority. All these AGs were duly elected. My guess is that it would be hard to recall most of them. Recall isn’t even possible in all states. The best we can hope for is criminal prosecution.

SMC
Reply to  commieBob
August 24, 2016 10:34 am

You’re quoting the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution.

Bill Powers
Reply to  commieBob
August 24, 2016 10:39 am

Yours is the salient point. They control the Public School systems. Now BOb wants to institute Government Pre-school. They want to mold these malleable minds by filling them with nightmare images of dying polar bears and penguins. They know that if they dumb them down they can dupe 50%plus1 to vote contrary to their own personal liberty. “Save the polar bears and me from myself! Yes please, 3 bags full.”

D. J. Hawkins
Reply to  commieBob
August 24, 2016 3:37 pm


The Declaration of Independence is considered one of the founding documents, and it’s principals co-equal to the elements of the Constitution.

Reply to  commieBob
August 24, 2016 6:01 pm

D. J., he’s still quoting the Declaration of Independence.

Donna K. Becker
August 24, 2016 8:26 am

Could it possibly be that someone at The Bulletin actually read the climate-related links I sent?!?

Barbara
Reply to  Donna K. Becker
August 24, 2016 12:36 pm

‘The role of transnational companies in the formation of a European Biofules Policy’
Draft: P.2
‘The Unilever and Greenpeace Alliance’
One account of how this alliance came about.
https://www.iss.nl/fileadmin/ASSETS/iss/Documents/Conference_presentations/NatureInc_Jacob_Nordangard.pdf
—————————————————————-
‘Vermont Pushes for a Carbon Pollution Tax, March 17, 2015
Ben & Jerry’s is a subsidiary of Unilever since c. 2000
http://www.benjerry.com/values/issues-we-care-about/climate-justice/carbon-pollution-tax
————————————————————————————————————
‘Meet Annie!’, March 15, 2016
Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA.
On the Board of Ben & Jerry’s.
http://www.benjerry.com.uk/whats-new/meet-annie-leonard

Barbara
Reply to  Barbara
August 24, 2016 12:42 pm
Barbara
Reply to  Barbara
August 24, 2016 12:45 pm
Marcus
August 24, 2016 8:27 am

..Maybe they should first “investigate” whether “Catastrophic Man Made Climate Change” is real !

Harry Passfield
Reply to  Marcus
August 24, 2016 2:04 pm

No Marcus. I suggest that President Trump (Clinton will not want to cut off a wealth-enhancing opportunity) should set up a commission to investigate what ‘science’ considers to be the ideal climate for the planet. At least that way the alarmists will be kept busy arguing that toss rather than telling us what is not a good climate. (and they would know this, how?)

Marcus
Reply to  Harry Passfield
August 24, 2016 2:52 pm

…Brilliant !! I kneel in awe…..

Caligula Jones
August 24, 2016 8:39 am

I get the idea that if an oil company said to its investors: “new government regulations to fight climate change is going to cost us tens of billions of dollars and will achieve squat” it would be charged too.
As I said yesterday, this is just a grown up version of “heads I win, tails you lose” from grade school.

Reply to  Caligula Jones
August 24, 2016 9:01 am

“I get the idea that if an oil company said to its investors: “new government regulations to fight climate change is going to cost us tens of billions of dollars …”
Sadly, no, it’s not going to cost the oil company anything.
It’s going to cost the CONSUMER everything. We will pay.

ClimateOtter
Reply to  wallensworth
August 24, 2016 9:53 am

Especially when they force ‘big oil’ to leave it in the ground. Then we’ll pay in spades. The poor and elderly leading the way, right straight into the ground.

Alan McIntire
Reply to  wallensworth
August 24, 2016 10:38 am

Actually it would cost both the oil company increased sales and profits, and the consumer in more expensive energy, food, transportation.
I’m reminded of a RaymondSmullyan story.. A man walks into a bar and said, “I’ll have a drink, and drinks for ghe house. When I drink EVER’yBODY drinks!” He then said, “I’ll have another, and when I have another, EVERYBODY has another!” He finally pulls out his walled and says, “And when I pay, EVERYBODY pays!”
In real lif EVERYBODY pays, the energy company in reduced profits, everyone else in increased prices..

Caligula Jones
Reply to  wallensworth
August 24, 2016 11:05 am

True. But if I’m a stock owner…stock is liable to go down, no?

Barbara
Reply to  wallensworth
August 25, 2016 10:54 am

Alberta Government, July 13, 2016
The Oil Sands Advisory Group
Advisory group members.
The activists are inside now and not outside.
http://www.alberta.ca/oilsands-advisory-group-members.aspx
Something similar to the Unilever and Greenpeace alliance developing?

Barbara
Reply to  wallensworth
August 27, 2016 3:05 am

Berman on the Alberta Oil Sands Advisory group and Klein of 350.org are both connected to McKibben.
Alberta oil sands have been portrayed by some as “bad” and now the oil sands are going to be “OK”?
Unilever was portrayed by some as a “bad company” and then it suddenly became an “OK” company.

August 24, 2016 9:02 am

Dear Ms. Rosenblum,
How is the climate supposedly changing that has you so concerned?

August 24, 2016 9:06 am

“Rosenblum did say in a statement in March that climate change in Oregon is real. “My office is committed to working with other state Attorneys General to address the issue, and we will continue to push for and defend stronger federal efforts,” she said. “If we don’t act now, it may soon be too late.””
A witch hunt is what this is,to defend the government highly politicized position, in the drive to impose control over people.

GeologyJim
August 24, 2016 9:08 am

CO2isLife nails it!
This is how the Brownshirts gain power and influence over everyday life.
Push back, and demand your legislators/representatives do the same.

John Endicott
August 24, 2016 9:22 am

“Rosenblum did say in a statement in March that climate change in Oregon is real.“
Well, yes it is, and has been for as long as there has been climate. But that’s a completely different thing to the unproven theory of catastrophic man-made climate change. A bit of a bait and switch there to point to one that that is real (climate change) and then go on and on about something else.

Reply to  John Endicott
August 24, 2016 10:25 am

+ 1

Graham
August 24, 2016 9:24 am

This is what happens when you let sociopaths get to positions of power and influence.

MarkW
Reply to  Graham
August 24, 2016 11:10 am

Without politics, what work could sociopaths find?

John Harmsworth
Reply to  MarkW
August 24, 2016 12:00 pm

the closely related field of Law?

Mark from the Midwest
August 24, 2016 9:29 am

All you need to know about Rosenblum is that her husband was publisher of a very liberal weekly out of Portland. If you can get a few back issues of Willamette Week, described as an “alternative newspaper,” you will see that these people are B.S.C.

Reply to  Mark from the Midwest
August 24, 2016 6:12 pm

I didn’t know she was related to Willamette Week. It does do some investigative stuff.
I believe that Willamette Week was responsible for outing Gov. Kitzhabers girlfriend (& the Gov) for using the Governers office for personal gain. The girlfriend was a consultant on climate issues for government & for private consulting firm … overlapping. She had 3 or 4 years experience as a “climate consulant” prior to making lots of cash in deals involving State monies. Prior to being a climate whore she was involved in a failed property deal where her boyfriend tried to lease a farm to grow/sell marijuana (before it was legal) … she claimed it was all the idea of the boyfriend. The Gov resigned & neither the Gov or his climate whore were prosecuted by this Atty General Rosenblum (who, by coincidence, was appointed by said outgoing Governor).
Appears that the Government of Oregon has turned into a cesspool of democrats … it has been dems for a long time, but the cesspool descriptor now applies.

August 24, 2016 9:29 am

Further proof of loss of free speech:
August 19 Wall Street Journal opinion piece “Enlist the Market in the Climate-Change Fight”
By Jeff zients and Brian Deese, two Obama Administration functionaries.
They propose rules framework for how companies report the climate risk of their operation to shareholders.
In other words, government control of what and how you run your company.
Exerpt: “the SEC could adopt detailed and standardized industry specific requirements for disclosure, and…aggressively hold public companies to account…this effort should also be extended internationally.”

scute1133
August 24, 2016 9:34 am

How about sending an open letter to all 16 AG’s asking them the question directly? You could include a list of potential transgressions along the lines of the questions you pose here. You could include check boxes alongside each one so as to save their time. Just a quick skim through, checking and crossing as they go- oh, and include a stamped addressed envelope with it so there’s no excuse not to send it back.

Doug
August 24, 2016 9:41 am

That is my local paper in our little town of 80,000. Like many towns with civic minded people, our city council wants to hop on the bandwagon and “do our part” by implementing a policy to cut emissions, in spite of the fact that they have limited grasp of costs and energy sources, let alone climate science. I sent them a letter in as factual terms as possible pointing out although climate change may be real and some portion of it probably anthropogenic, the existence of a “climate crisis” is based upon highly suspect models, not measured facts.
An attorney general like that does not help our council form a reasonable policy.

Donna K. Becker
Reply to  Doug
August 24, 2016 10:13 am

Doug, we should get in touch sometime.

Resourceguy
August 24, 2016 9:45 am

If companies can be investigated over this issue, then so can individuals. There is no Constitution-C Class and Constitution I-Class. This is using public office and public funds to harass based on advocacy opinion and advocacy quid pro quo.

Phillip Bratby
August 24, 2016 9:47 am

Is it safe to say that the climate changes?

dp
August 24, 2016 9:58 am

I think there is a krufty old document in Washington DC that among other things specifically prescribes the government shall take no action to prevent free speech. And while it does not guarantee there are no consequences for that freedom, citizens of this great nation are free to speak out on any subject that pleases us. The SCOTUS has also made the point that fear of retribution is a form of constraint on free speech and cannot be used as a proxy for an 800 pound gorilla in the room. These attorneys general should be facing disbarment for abuse of office and privilege.

Peter R Evans
August 24, 2016 10:03 am

Oddly enough, according to the Office of the Washington State Climatologist the State of Oregon has been cooling over the last two decades but warming over the past three.
http://www.climate.washington.edu/trendanalysis/
Data from 1994 through 2014 (most recent posted) indicate cooling trends throughout most of the state.

Bill Powers
August 24, 2016 10:13 am

“Rosenblum did say in a statement in March that climate change in Oregon is real.”
Of course Climate Change is real! We have scientific evidence to verify that it is real, not only is it real, it predates Homo Sapiens and it is ongoing. I bet it is not okay to write about that?
Rosenblum also said: “If we don’t act now, it MAY soon be too late.” Always look for it, the qualifier. That qualifier allows for, however it MAY NOT be too late.
“If ifs and buts where candy and nuts…” May still would’t qualify as real science beyond anything other than a hypothetical.

Gabro
Reply to  Bill Powers
August 24, 2016 10:28 am

Soon you will beg to admit that there was no climate change before humans started burning fossil fuels!

Bill Powers
Reply to  Gabro
August 24, 2016 11:45 am

What??
The climate changed, before the discovery of fossil fuels. So I fail to understand the point you are trying to make.

Bryan A
Reply to  Gabro
August 24, 2016 12:23 pm

they will need to rename it yet again to something more like
Anthropogenic
Climate
Modification

Ben of Houston
Reply to  Gabro
August 24, 2016 12:34 pm

I think that Garbo was attempting at sarcasm.

Bruce Cobb
August 24, 2016 10:23 am

Actually in Greentopia, asking the question “what’s safe to say about climate change?” is itself an example of greenthoughtcrime, requiring at minimum 6 months in a climate gulag for extensive climate re-education.

August 24, 2016 10:24 am

“He got Peabody Energy, a large coal producer, to agree to disclose more information to investors about its financial risks”
Did he notice that the biggest financial risk was from the consequences of idiots pushing the false narrative of substantial climate change caused by CO2 which if they succeed will cost shareholders almost their entire investment?

Jim Yushchyshyn
Reply to  co2isnotevil
August 24, 2016 5:37 pm

Interesting name.
Arsenic is not evil, either.
Neither is radon.

Reply to  Jim Yushchyshyn
August 24, 2016 6:39 pm

Some people consider RADON the opposite of evil:
“With colorful names like the Sunshine Health Mine, Free Enterprise, Earth Angel, Radon Tunnel, and the Merry Widow, the mine shafts tout radon levels as much as 175 times the federal safety standard for houses. Yet, visitors claim miraculous recoveries and disease remissions in the damp, cool passages. Some have arrived in wheelchairs, then walked out on their own. – See more at: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2143#sthash.csqproOm.dpuf
ARSENIC could/should be considered an essential element. Daily intake is similar to Selenium is good for you (and everyone else). Arsenic deficiency depresses growth and impairs reproduction; arsenic also may help in regulating harmful intestinal organisms. Arsenic is needed/good … the opposite of evil.
Ignorance, willful ignorance is evil.

Akatsukami
Reply to  Jim Yushchyshyn
August 24, 2016 7:34 pm

Of course not. Neither arsenic atoms nor radon atoms are moral agents.

Reply to  Jim Yushchyshyn
August 25, 2016 10:53 am

JY,
However, the IPCC is evil incarnated as the body of climate science research.

Barbara
Reply to  co2isnotevil
August 25, 2016 8:00 pm

Peabody Energy Corp. (BTUUQ.PK) OTC
On June 1, 2008, stock closed at ~ $1300 USD/share.
Today, Aug.25, 2016, closed at ~ $1.35 USD/share

Barbara
Reply to  Barbara
August 26, 2016 11:04 am

NASDAQ: Peabody Energy Corp. major shareholders
List of: 135 Institutional Holders as of 6-30-16
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/btuuq/institutional-holdings
Big hits?

Dodgy Geezer
August 24, 2016 10:33 am

… Is it OK to say there is uncertainty about how much of a role humans play in climate change?..
Yes, you’re allowed to say it is uncertain ’round the edges’. But you must always finish your piece by saying that ‘fundamentally, the Earth is still about to roast in heat and fire and drown in rising oceans unless we stop using all our technology*…’
* (except anyone working on climate change and their friends…)

H.R.
Reply to  Dodgy Geezer
August 24, 2016 3:25 pm

Dodgy wrote in part:

[…] the Earth is still about to roast in heat and fire and drown in rising oceans […]

I always wondered about that. How do we roast in fire when the oceans will rise and put the fire out?
Someone needs to call a team huddle and get their stories straight.