Chris Horner’s Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO) organization has scored a win in its ongoing battle to uncover the reprehensible behavior of government institutions.
By Christin Nielsen Apr 15, 2022
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California court has ordered the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to release records showing academics “going after climate denialism” in coordination with state and local prosecutors.
The decision by the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles was made following a petition for a hearing submitted in January by Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO), a government watchdog group. The filings followed a previous Public Records Act request originally submitted in November 2019.
The suit seeks to compel the university to hand over documents believed to be in the public’s interest regarding efforts by UCLA professors to pursue opponents of their climate agenda.
The final ruling in the case, issued by Judge Mary H. Strobel on April 7, calls for The Regents of the University of California (“Regents”) to hand over copies of hundreds of pages of documents requested by GAO.
The order comes after GAO accused UCLA of “prolonged, deliberate and unjustified failure to timely respond to the CRPA [sic, CPRA] Requests” following UCLA’s ongoing refusal to release the requested documents.
In a trial brief filing, GAO said that in November 2019, they requested records “concerning the University’s work with private outside parties including law enforcement to develop theories of litigation against, and pursue as targets of investigation, perceived opponents of a political and policy agenda shared by these outside parties and certain faculty, and the University’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (the ‘Emmett Center’) for which they work.”
The documents in question include communications between two individuals who, according to public records, are responsible for pushing the climate litigation efforts at UCLA, a public institution.
https://legalnewsline.com/stories/623256609-ucla-ordered-to-release-records-showing-coordination-between-law-enforcement-and-climate-denialism
Apparently, UCLA used typical obstruction tactics to resist the release of the documents. The court was not having it.
While UCLA attempted to categorize many of the requested documents as “not public records,” the court stated that, per a previous filing, “the definition of ‘public records’ is ‘broad and intended to cover every conceivable kind of record that is involved in the governmental process.'”
https://legalnewsline.com/stories/623256609-ucla-ordered-to-release-records-showing-coordination-between-law-enforcement-and-climate-denialism
The case may end up casting light upon the origins of Big Green.
As previously reported by Legal Newsline, the original PRA request was initiated after an agenda from a “secret meeting” at Harvard University was released by the Vermont Office of the Attorney General. Documents show that UCLA faculty participated in the meeting alongside climate activists, potential funders and law enforcement officials.
The meeting provided details about how the attendees could participate in state action against traditional “fossil fuel” energy companies.
The UCLA case has notable similarities to several others in which arrangements existed between academics, climate pressure groups and politically-motivated campaigns to pursue major carbon producers.
The GAO’s filings in the case also brought to light new information about the Enron origins of the climate industry and detailed a lengthy history between academics and climate pressure groups.
“Enron was the early ringleader of the global warming industry,” Christopher Horner, attorney and former senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wrote in his declaration in the case.
Horner explained that Enron participated in meetings with climate pressure groups in Washington D.C and was working on a campaign “to ensure U.S participation in a ‘global warming’ treaty that several months later would be called the Kyoto Protocol.”
The Horner declaration also argues Enron fueled the development of the climate industry with the intent of profiting off of related mandates.
https://legalnewsline.com/stories/623256609-ucla-ordered-to-release-records-showing-coordination-between-law-enforcement-and-climate-denialism
Very extensive projection by the climate activists. They are engaged in a conspiracy with green NGOs, so of course their opponents must be involved in one, too.
Not only NGOs, but conspiracies with governmental entities including law enforcement. They are using the awesome power of the local, State and Federal governments to destroy their perceived enemies. I assume their delaying tactics are meant to drag things out beyond the various statutes of limitation.
I believe that the Statutes of Limitations only applies to the time that passes from the time of an event to the time that an action is brought because of that event.
So long as the request was made before limitations could be applied, then potential limitations no longer apply no matter how much time passes after the request
Uh, the request is not the governmental action triggering the end of the Statutes of Limitations period is not the initiation, IIRC.
I believe the statue of limitations starts when a crime is discovered, not when it actually occurs.
I remember reading about a robbery suspect who started bragging about his crime when he thought the statute of limitations had run out. Unfortunately for him, the crime occurred on a Saturday but wasn’t discovered until the following Monday. So he started bragging two days too soon. He was quickly arrested and charged,and later, convicted.
It took me a while to figure out the CRPA is a typo (I think) and should be CPRA for California Public Records Act. One would think that a legal group would be more careful in their press releases. But it is good news and we can hope that CEI’s efforts tp expose this corruption will result in appropriate sanctions.
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Thanks for saving me the trouble of trying to figure out what it was supposed to mean.
I assumed it was CRAP.
Big green is cover for big red. Makes a watermelon
More global warming…
Nino34 SST’s are still cold. This Spring should be late and cold (and wet?) on the Great Plains.
LITTLE ICE AGE; “A LONG COLD WINTER” FORECAST FOR ARGENTINA AS FOOD AND ENERGY SHORTAGES MOUNT; + U.S. CONTINUES TO FELL COLD RECORDS
April 15, 2022 Cap Allon
Prior to this week, a half-inch was Wenatchee’s snowfall record for the month of April, but on Thursday alone, NWS meteorologists tallied 7-10 inches in town, with 16 inches settling just south of town.
How is this relevant or “on topic” Allan?
Or even make any sense at all as a reply to Allen Stoner?
The thread is about big green fraud.
My post provides further evidence of that big green fraud. Evidence trumps rhetoric.
The green fraudsters strictly ignore observations that disprove their false narrative. They no longer debate the science because they know they always lose. They just vilify and shout down their opponents.
There is never been any credible scientific evidence to support the CAGW hypothesis.
Arguments at the molecular scale are routinely disproved at the global scale. Such scale-up errors are routinely encountered in engineering.
The alarmists know that their climate models routinely and grossly over-state actual observations of warming, which are minor and not dangerous but are in fact beneficial.
Since about 2020, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have continue to increase, but the world has been getting colder, perhaps alarmingly so. The CAGW hypo thesis is being disapproved once again as we speak.
I actually thought you would apologize and promise to do better rather than offer that ridiculous rationalization.
Consider the off-topic trigger to be more active.
I do apologize Charles:
mea culpa, mea culpa,
mea máxima culpa.
I shall try to be more on-topic, and shall post less frequently, perhaps a lot less so.
Be at peace Charles, and thank you for all your work.
and…
Happy Easter to all 🙂
Confíteor Deo omnipoténti
et vobis, fratres,
quia peccávi nimis
cogitatióne, verbo,
ópere et omissióne:
mea culpa, mea culpa,
mea máxima culpa.
Ideo precor beátam Maríam semper vírginem,
omnes angelos et sanctos,
et vos, fratres,
oráre pro me ad Dóminum Deum nostrum.
I confess to almighty God
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault;
therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.
*****************************
What the hell are you two arguing about? Allan is certainty a knot-head, but it is a fact that temperatures do not follow CO2 is an established fact: Evidence early 20th and 21th Centuries.
Name-calling Dave? I would say that is beneath you, but it’s not.
BTW, what have you done for humanity?
See https://energy-experts-international.com/
and https://CorrectPredictions.ca/
Well, Allan, if I could find it I’d pull it out and compare it to yours. Humanity does just fine without my sticking my nose (or other appendages) where it doesn’t belong or is not wanted.
I’ll stick to cleaning up things in my AO. You know, like lowering power costs for my customers and providing needed new services. Small stuff where I don’t need to swing the big one around to get attention.
I dictated the above. Typo – disproved not disapproved.
The question of whether a company or even a whole industry would create a bogus environmental crisis, made me think about the ozone hole.
A web search for freon patent ozone produces lots of hits.
The accusation is that DuPont, whose patent on freon was nearly expired, conspired with the EPA to ban freon. Then they could sell worse, more expensive chemicals, on which they held patents that would be in force for many years. (a patent lasts 20 years)
Freon is a trade name owned by Du Pont (until it spun off the refrigerants business) and covers a whole family of refrigerants made by them. Other companies made the same refrigerants but had other trade names for them (Genetron = Honeywell). The general trade names of some of the “first generation” and now-banned refrigerants are R-11 (trichlorofluoromethane), R-12 (dichlorodifluoromethane), R-22 (chlorodifluoromethane) and R-115 (chloropentafluoroethane). R-502 was a mixture of R-22 and R115.
Has the change in refrigerants helped reduce the size of the ozone hole? Like you, I am skeptical that we are seeing anything more than natural variations. The hole has always been there.
Energy from the Sun both makes and breaks apart ozone. The “holes” are where? Over the Earth’s poles, where the solar energy is least concentrated and half the year at each arctic zone there’s zero solar energy. Naturally there’s less ozone in the polar regions.
It is always fun to try and guess how many posts it will take before somebody posts an easily disproved conspiracy theory.
Rather than making this statement, when not disprove the conspiracy theory. Should be easy.
You are supposed to take Izaak at his word. If he says something is true, you are morally bound to agree with him. At least that’s what he seems to believe.
It is always fun to try and guess how many posts it will take before somebody posts an easily disproved conspiracy theory.
Something like “Exxon knew” you mean?
In this case you should read the link I posted. It’s a great history lesson.
I don’t think anyone is accusing DuPont of cooking up the ozone hole. At the very least, they realized which side of the bread was buttered, and lobbied accordingly. History shows that the EPA was not deaf to the lobbying.
If I were going to strong man the case that it wasn’t a conspiracy, I would posit that the EPA totally banning freon immediately, without an available replacement, would have done great damage to humanity because refrigeration is a basic human right, so they couldn’t do that. 🙂
History lesson? The ozone hole came in to awareness as a result of the SST. The question raised was what would happen when all these supersonic aircraft were flying in the stratosphere? How to measure it? Use a trace gas? How about Freon 12? What would Freon 12 do to the ozone in the stratosphere? Could Rowland and Molina do a research project on the reaction?
PS: The ozone hole was discovered in the 30s in the Antarctic.
The history I was referring to was about the machinations around the EPA ban of freon. It was a great deal more complicated than I knew about.
Having lived it, I can say it was quite complicated.
I was working on a timeline that got changed constantly.
The ozone hole was discovered in the 30s in the Antarctic.
This is entirely correct. It was discovered by Charles Dobson himself, the father of atmospheric ozone studies.
The existence of the Ozone Hole before the commercialization of CFC’s demonstrates definitively that the phenomenon has nothing to do with the latter.
All it takes is a good story and promise of $$$$ to a congressman / senator and lo and behold a crisis develops !
Like Benghazi was started by an internet video?
Isn’t it amazing how leftists don’t believe they actually have to disprove conspiracy theories. They believe that the act of labeling something, is the equivalent to disproving it.
They concoct simple explanations and stick with them no matter how much contrary evidence piles up. They are disconnected from reality in a pathological way. ie. They are literally insane.
you’re saying it’s a conspiracy ? prove it !
Yep, you are a little off. The patents would have expired in the 40s. The word FreonTM is a trademark. Freon like Xerox has been so overused without the TM that enforcement is almost useless.
I forgot to post the link and nobody called me on it.
The link says the patent was issued in 1928 and I think patents lasted 17 years then. So, the original patent would have expired in 1945.
Having said the above, companies often file related patents when the original patent is about to expire. Here’s a story about the large number of patents to protect HFOs.
Midgely developed the original patents. We filed patents on the new ones in the 90s. Every time we filed, I went on record of saying we won’t get this one. Then we did. I was involved in patent defenses around the globe. There were no patent extensions on the original gases. And Midgely filed for most of the HCFCs at the same time as the ones for F11, F12, F114, F115 etc. A real SME here.
Some companies are just really good at getting patents. There’s one local company where it feels like even the janitor must have a few patents to his name. 🙂
‘ The irony is that Enron was bankrupted by its “green” strategy. Enron purchased natural gas futures on the assumption that the environmental groups they were funding would succeed in raising the price of natural gas by restricting the use of coal and oil. The strategy failed and Enron was forced to purchase natural gas at prices much higher than prevailing market prices.
Hmmm
Opinions gone crazy. Shows the power of politics to over ride common sense.
CPRA put another way CRAP
Good work by Chris Horner.
Let’s hope that they can closely link the Climatologists to Enron and and their practices.
Maybe the fraud will start to unravel!
Really? So, one of the epicenters of defund police is actually in collusion with police. How typically hypocritical.
Epicentre? Core, nexus or base might make more sense where you’re not talking about an actual geographical location.
Epicenter works, leftist ideology is a series of destructive earthquakes in human societies, where it erupts it spreads in all directions wreaking havoc on all societal structures it encounters Yep, epicenter is a fitting term.
Moo, Moo… Hear those taxpayers just crying to be milked?
Just another example proving ucla Sucks.