Guest essay by Eric Worrall
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who led the failed “Attorneys General United for Clean Power” effort to harass climate skeptics, is now demanding President-elect Trump trample the rights of Republican supporters.
To me this letter demonstrates the utter overweening arrogance of politically connected climate advocates like Schneiderman.
Nobody is preventing Schneiderman from pursuing clean power in his own state. But that isn’t good enough – Schneiderman won’t be satisfied unless he messes up everyone elses life as well, either by convincing Trump to break key campaign promises, or by fulfilling his threat to litigate, to waste Trump’s time.
In my opinion, Schneiderman has no respect for the limits of his office, no respect for the right of people to disagree with him, and no respect for Trump’s overwhelming democratic mandate. The sooner Schneiderman is ejected from office, the better.
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Schneiderman: “Save the Clean Power Plan, or else.”
Trump: “Or else, what?”
Schneiderman: “We’ll all pitch a Lefty fit and have a public meltdown!”
Trump: “Your term are acceptable.”
“…effort to harass climate skeptics”
You miss another opportunity to inform the sleepy heads what people are actually skeptical of, Eric . . which sure as hell is not climate. How ’bout climate model skeptic, or anything that conveys something other than idiots? . . fingers got tired? ; )
As I read the AG’s argument, Trump is not supposed to take action to stop the litigation, otherwise the AG’s will create new litigation.
In other words, Trump has nothing to lose by taking action. The very worst that can happen is that things end up where they are now, in litigation. With one important difference:
By Trump taking action, the CPP will be dead until and unless the AG’s succeed in their litigation. And given a new Justice Department and new EPA, along with a slew of Republican governors, legislators, and congress, the AG’s will find litigating in favor of a dead CPP just got a whole lot harder.
In effect the state AG’s will find themselves in the position of trying to tell the feds what the federal laws must be.
“You give me a seat at the grown-ups’ table OR ELSE, Mister Trump!”
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They’re serving broccoli at the grown-ups table, kid.
I think Trump should do NY and California a favor. He should make sure that they don’t contribute to CAGW by emitting CO2. He should ban shipments of fossil fuels to those states, and disconnect them from any power grid that relies on coal generated electricity.
Do you think that would make them happy?
…we’d never know: their lines of communication wouldn’t function without all that fossil-fuel-generated electricity.
…and, I might add, we’d never see them since their automobiles and planes wouldn’t work without fuel and wouldn’t take them anywhere.
(The theorem of limits is my favorite mathematical construct.)
Walter,
California already has sufficient energy resources (oil and gas) in spite of the fact that Guv Moonbeam (also known as CowFart Brown) is trying to shut down as much energy production as possible. Shutting down all fossil fuel shipments into the state would make the libtards who vote for 60% of the morons in Sacramento consider the fact that they need to drill or leave their cars at home and for those in Sac City, turn off their AC units. I would buy tickets to see the legislature working in the capitol without AC in the summer. 110 F in the shade makes for a very warm building.
Brooks
Oh yeah. I’d buy that ticket. + 100
Walter: Agreed. If people think coal, oil and gasoline are wrong and bad, we should not be enabling them to participate in the use thereof.
There is no such thing as “Clean” power. The manufacturing ( mining, smelting of ores) alone requires constant energy. Energy that wind/solar/ and other so called clean power sources just do not have. Then add in the destruction of the environment these projects do while being put in place? I wont even start on the recycling costs.Even nuclear is not completely green although those cost are largely offset by the length of time a nuke will provide clean power.
These people, as others have said, are just trying to keep the gravy train going and most cases that will only be the lawyers that will be in courts for decades. Seeing that this AG is a lawyer he is just preparing for his future after he is kicked out of office and assuring his buddies will be as well after they get kicked out!
What is so sickening with all of this is you and I will be paying them as they will be fighting governments.
I propose none of these scum should be allowed to practise law for 10 years after they leave office and if they lose their cases they should be paying all court fees.
As stated in the article, NY is free to continue with their plans. After they are “successful”, they can laugh at the other states. Of course, we are free to laugh at them. Without any federal subsidies, I think the rest of the US will be doing the laughing.
The letter from the confederation of Attorneys General reads like a “brush back”
pitch done up in legalese.
These respectable clowns are used to playing softball in what has suddenly become
a game of political, legal and perhaps scientific hardball.
Please pass the popcorn…
The “letter”, really OUGHT to have started …
“Our states and local governments are on the front lines of the Global Warming Gravy Train”.
For Pete’s sake – how hard can “public service” be?
So Schneiderman wants to spend his time dictating to the President of the United States…about power plants?
What ever happened to cleaning up the corruption in Albany?
Hell, I’d be happy to see the NY AG just go back to $5,000/trick hookers. Where’s Spitzer when we need him?
It must be remembered that NY gets just about all of it’s power from the power plant at Niagara Falls…built long before Schneiderman was born or “The Greens” would have allowed such a “violation” of Ma’ Gaia.
“was born or “The Greens” would have allowed such a “violation” of Ma’ Gaia.”
Should be:
“was born or “The Greens” would NOThave allowed such a “violation” of Ma’ Gaia.
The motto of the State of New York is The Empire State. I have found that accurately describes the attitude of everyone associated with state government.
Per Mr. Trump’s behalf:
Dear New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman et al:
Eat chit and die. Your progtard Cargo Cult “Science” is gone without any more federal taxpayers’ funding, and all your violations of individual rights are now to be treated as criminal henceforth. U.S. Marshals will be visiting your offices forthwith.
Gotta be something in the RICO statutes which apply to you. Hell, of you goons are Democrats, ain’tcha?
Thanks.
Donald J. Trump
That sure is a nice presidency you have there. Real shame if anything happened to it.
I find it disturbingly typical that Eric Schneiderman is not being held responsible for the organized crime he and his connected cohorts tried to commit (using the public’s money).against certain energy industries which have been targeted for neutralization in order to clear the path for a “renewables” industry to replace them. Why do these folks reek of an agenda that resorts to going “hook or crook” to gain wealth and power?
A jest about attorneys in general:
Our story unfolds in the “end of the world” after-life, where a well-intentioned civil engineer is dispatched to Hades because of a Clerical error (an error committed by a Cleric).
Finding things in “a hell of a shape”, he begins design and implementation of improvements to the infrastructure which result in drastic decreases of the torture level experienced by the damned.
Soon, God noticed that the weeping and gnashing of teeth had subsided and discovered that the engineer was placed mistakenly, so He demanded that Satan release him to cross the chasm to heaven.
Satan replied: “You can’t make me do that”.
God countered: “I’ll see you in court!”
The Devil grinned and said: “Yeah, right… and where are you going to find a Lawyer?”
At the risk of offending darn near everybody, Schneidermann’s threat reminds me a lot of Cleavon Little’s threat to shoot the new sheriff in Blazing Saddles. THe only bummer on the clip is that they cut out the part where he observes that he is so smart and they are so dumb – kind of like the dem Attys General. Schneidermann and his co-conspirators need to be careful as there is no statute of limitations on civil RICO in a lot of states, states that he and his cronies are targeting. Cheers –
Isn’t there still a case for malfeasance being probed by a Senate committee against these jerks for their frivolous attacks against fossil fuel companies and conservative think tanks? Their ignoring subpoenas sets a terrible precedent if allowed. Also probes of NOAA’s Karlization of temp to kill the Pause and the Rico climateersled by Shukla- what became of these?
Another thing about ‘Russian hacks’ of DNC and Podesta. I’m pleased that the Trump team is waiting to see the actual evidence. I’m afraid I don’t accept the reports until they are thoroughly reviewed. I smelled something fishy when, not once, was the high possibility of an inside job by a disgruntled Sanders supporter considered by the investigators and media. Climategate ring any bell’s? The rot, gross dishonesty and corruption in the Democratic party is going to take several election cycles and some funerals to clean them up. When they come back in about 2028, they will have rehabilitated themselves. Their global constituency will be no more.
Gary, could the whole Russian claim be just part of their diversion of blame from their own failure to seduce the free thinkers of the USA with media propagated propaganda?
That’s my thinking. Climategate emails release was an inside job but the dishonest scoundrels of the neomarxbrothers still insist it was a hack.
Their refusal to consider it an inside job is a large part of why they have not been able to solve the case yet.
A hypothetical: let’s assume that Trump666’s campaign chief falls for a Russian-originated phishing scam and releases his passwords. They find emails outlining massive corruption, incitement and recruitment of political violence, and other sordid stuff. It appears on wikileaks.
How many liberals would be calling for the result of the election to be set aside on those grounds?
Is Schneiderman a registered lobbyist because he sure sounds like the mouth piece for someone .
He must have blind copied his bosses .
The little clique of AG’s for Clean Out Tax Payers Wallets disintegrated before it got lift off .
Mr. Trump is not going to be bullied by the same little group of jack asses who tried the
“when did Exxon know ” crap .
The Demo Greens lost the election for many reasons including they don’t connect with voter interests because they are to busy preaching and regulating . People know the chicken little global warming fear mongers have been were promoting a one sided overblown hot air scam for over a decade . The only thing that saved the hoax for a while was the Obama $$ debt machine .
If the Obama Administration had put a fraction of the hundreds of $$ Billions wasted on the global warning hoax they might have made some progress on inner city social issues , infrastructure , crime and education.
Instead the Washington Swamp pee’d $ billions away to bankroll failed corporate welfare bums and to enrich insiders including the UN .
Rant on Schneiderman . It must suck to lose .
The Snideman will soon have himself measured. Maybe even measured for a spiffy orange jumpsuit. I’m sure he’s guilty of something. Also, imagine an idiot one day probing Trump’s charity foundation and the next begging him to support the ‘clean energy plan. This little weasel is stupid and has no dignity. Is that a crime for an AG ?
So if the AGs are so “united” on this topic, why are there 60 of them on stage (at least the Lower 58 plus HI)?
Why are there not
“Clean” power is probably going to meet raw power in the not-too-distant future.
January 20, 2017
Memo to: Eric Schneiderman
From: President Donald Trump
GET STUFFED! That is all.
“In my opinion, Schneiderman has no respect for the limits of his office, no respect for the right of people to disagree with him, and no respect for Trump’s overwhelming democratic mandate.”
In short, a typical snowflake ‘demo-KratZ’ operative!
The single biggest contribution to clean energy globally has been fracking / horizontal drilling in the USA.
The greens can’t cope with this fact, so they deny it, because it exposes their own hypocricy and the contradictions inherent in their narrative.
Indeed, the greenblob answer to the success of fracking is to deny, discredit and ban. They run from facts and use cherry picked anecdotes to support their unproven hypotheses. When you counter greenblob unsupportable positions with emperical data, they resort to logical fallacies such as appeal to authority, ad hominem and the cum hoc fallacy.
The entire letter is interesting. The EPA will have a new director, the AG will change out and yet somehow these AGss think nothing will change. And, threatening Trump with more litigation seems silly—I’m sure a business man such as Trump has seen his share of lawsuits. It’s not something that scares him. Of course, that’s all the AGs have so that’s what they use.
Eric summarizes: “In my opinion, Schneiderman has no respect for the limits of his office, no respect for the right of people to disagree with him, and no respect for Trump’s overwhelming democratic mandate. The sooner Schneiderman is ejected from office, the better.
“Trump’s overwhelming democratic mandate”? Anyone who lost the popular vote doesn’t have an overwhelming democratic mandate, no matter what the vote in the Electoral College was. Trump’s mandate is constitutional.
The EPA’s Clean Power Plan is being challenged in court by Attorneys General from Republican states. Schneiderman and other Democratic AGs are urging the Trump administration to defend the EPA’s plan in court. Why should one set of AGs be allowed to challenge the EPA and another set of AGs be showing “no respect for the limits of [their] office, no respect for the right of people to disagree with him” if they disagree.
I don’t agree with the EPA’s plan. I didn’t think Schneidermann and the other AGs had any right to go after Exxon and organizations that disagree with the consensus on CAGW. Nor do I support Eric’s intolerance for those who don’t agree with his positions.
“To me this letter demonstrates the utter overweening arrogance of politically connected climate advocates like Schneiderman.”
Of course. Just think of the millions of stakeholders in the alarmist movement, and all of the future moves they’ve built into their plans. Just as the DNC is unwilling to admit they have a problem these folks will hang on till the bitter end. And even if, for some reason, we were to slip into another little ice age, they’d still be arguing that it was human-indiced and the same prescription is needed—more political power, control of emissions with high taxes, and an assault on anyone who might disagree, as being unworthy to speak.
This is about control, not science. Until we accept this fact we will continue to be bewildered by such people. Those who seek truth are not welcome, only the narrative matters.