Reposted from American Thinker
With Enlightenment came secularism, with secularism came relativism, with relativism came leftism, and with leftism comes judicial activism. No longer are Western courts viewed as a place of arbitration based upon absolute Judeo-Christian morality and standards of justice, but a vehicle to enact revolutionary change, where fairness and righteousness are in the eye of the executor.
According to a new report published by Fox News today, America’s judiciary has been quietly receiving climate change arbitration “training” from a “little-known judicial advocacy organization” financed by “left-wing nonprofits.” Here are the details, from the article itself:
The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Law Institute (ELI) created the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) in 2018, establishing a first-of-its-kind resource to provide ‘reliable, up-to-date information’ about climate change litigation, according to the group. The project’s reach has extended to various state and federal courts, including powerful appellate courts….
When you have a group of people who don’t believe in the foundational values of America, this is what you get—a covert operation to transform what ought to be an unbiased and nonpartisan apparatus into a biased and partisan one. When the courts become an instrument to advance an agenda, it is a serious infringement on the right of a person or party to an impartial arbiter and the development is, naturally, alarming. When judicial minds receive “quiet training” in pseudo-science to ensure “climate justice” and “equity” are taken into consideration the threat of prejudiced decisions increases, and unconstitutional laws, and bureaucratic rules and mandates become “legal” despite any fact, reason, or authority to support their implementation.
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Fox also reports that in just five years, the CJP “has crafted 13 curriculum modules” and hosted dozens of events—all in all, “more than 1,700 judges” have participated in CJP’s “training” scheme.
From ELI’s website on its CJP, we find this:
As the body of climate litigation grows, judges must consider complex scientific and legal questions, many of which are developing rapidly. To address these issues, the Climate Judiciary Project of the Environmental Law Institute is collaborating with leading national judicial education institutions to meet judges’ need for basic familiarity with climate science methods and concepts.
Now this isn’t a great analogy because certain sciences are settled—embryology establishes that life begins at conception, ultrasounds unequivocally determine that babies in the womb are actually living human beings, and biological reality aligns with the real reality of two sexes (everything else is mental illness), etc.—but how would the left handle a pro-life nonprofit being a very real presence in law schools, presenting its curriculum as objective (even though it actually would be) and the institution requiring its students to take the course? Or, a Christian outfit, asserting that humans are not gendered but sexed? Obviously, the useful idiots would lose their collective mind.
I wonder how we can expect those gas stove rulings to go? What about when the tyrannical government imposes a “carbon emissions” limit on all American subjects? And when the federal bureaucracy takes away the heating and cooling elements in our home? What happens if legislators dictate that grocery store chains can only sell a limited amount of beef—or, none at all? Will these illegal actions be upheld? Well, presumably yes, because a “trained” judiciary will be right there to rule the “right” way.
HT/j-boles
“. . . because certain sciences are settled . . . .”
Really? Since when?
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” Richard Feynman
nice- I’ll keep that one
Exactly. And thinking scientifically is an exercise in trying not to fool yourself with beliefs and feelings.
What’s most annoying is that the climatistas scream that they are the ones following the settled science- and we’re just a bunch of dumb ass, deplorable deniers that must be repressed and jailed. Oh, that burns me up.
Do you believe that “thinking scientifically is an exercise in trying not to fool yourself with beliefs and feelings”?
I get the point you are making about climate alarmism but better not to wander off into other matters.
Two more great quotes from Feynman:
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” and
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”
Christianity is a religion based on faith and reason. I find the Resurrection of Jesus Christ emininently reasonable. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the arguments against believing in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are very unreasonable.
It fits-
‘There’s a reckoning coming’: United States ‘hijacked’ by activists (msn.com)
There’s always more to these situations. At my September 29, 2023 GelbspanFiles blog post, I showed how the Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO) litigation watchdog group exposes that the Center For Climate Integrity (CCI) is ‘educating’ municipality officials on how to file “Exxon Knew”-style lawsuits. What I further show at my blog’s category tag for CCI is how CCI’s ‘evidence’ for “industry-corrupted skeptic climate scientists” sources from just a tiny core clique of enviro-activists, whose accusation may have strayed rather far into epic defamation territory.
Have you checked out the connections between Sher Edling and the Environmental Law Institute, creators of this Climate Judiciary Project? The same names come up time and again, as do the same funding groups.
the vanguard of the climatocracy
Did a quick zip through the CJP folks, spotted one name connection that I’ve already forgotten, but it would not surprise me that a deeper dive (if only I had an Exxon-funded staff to task with the effort!) would reveal even more connections. It all seems to be one big happy tiny little family no matter where a person looks for these connections.
At least one defendant in a state AG sponsored case has made the connection between the prosecutors, their supporters and the judge via the CJP. They’ve submitted some request or other around that but not entirely sure of the details.
It is really hard to stay a “ science” based and focused site, group, individual, what ever these days. But I am pretty sure this is all coming to a head this year. Central control ( corruption) of the scientific narrative effects everything. Results in terrible decisions making and policy which in turn results in economic misallocation of resources, and on and on…
So who will be the Robespierre of climate change ?
There’s quite a few runners and riders
Could you expand on this? Not sure what your point is. It may be a good one- it’s just that I don’t know what it is. Yes, I’ve heard the name- but I haven’t read much on the French Revolution- much more on the Russian Revolution having taken a grad course on that subject- the only forestry student every to do so. 🙂 Hey, it was the ’60s.
I’ve put a reply up to John Oliver quite a way further down the thread giving my take on Robespierre. Might be helpful (or not!).
NGO dark money can often be taxpayer foreign aid funds laundered as “donations” from recipient countries.
Was the AI prompt war of the rings based? They even look like they should be holding swords.
So we just ignore the huge influence of those roman and greek pagans on our ideas of law and morality…
The “useful idiots” differentiate between gender and sex.
https://www.healthline.com/health/sex-vs-gender#sex
Have you heard of St. Anselm?
No, care to explain more?
Thank you for bringing author Olivia Murray to my attention. Most sound.
Not really. There are a gazillion peer-reviewed papers about this science, but they are often contradictory, don’t advance much of any fundamental understanding, and frankly we have spent a fortune in the past 50 years to make almost no progress on the fundamental questions. A lot of this looks quite a bit like Irving Langmuir’s indicators of pathological science.
There is a solution to this biased training. Get a list of the judges involved and challenge each and every one to recuse themselves on anything involving “climate science”. An abbreviated “course” of this nature won’t educate people much (real education requires a course of study, not a series of lectures).
judges must stick to the law- not science
Demand recusal – my thought as well. If the judge doesn’t, it could be grounds for appeal.
There is a need to equip judges and others to question critically the raft of claims across the public discourse. The judicial method depends on Adversarial critique and response to seek the truth. Some resources are available and should be promoted more widely.
https://rclutz.com/2017/12/22/critical-climate-intelligence-for-jurists-and-others/
I’m now wondering if Judge Aiken of “Juliana v United States” might have been on the course? It might explain a few things.
+10
Biased judges should recuse themselves, obviously, but they won’t see themselves as biased. Note Bob’s comment below, the alternative is to demand that they hear both sides of the issue. Climate realists could put together the counter education package, and in that package they could call out the propaganda and misinformation the judges have been indoctrinated with. Once that is brought to their attention they would be obligated to consider it.
The evil part of this whole issue is that these same judges will be asked to rule on a huge range of issues not directly related to climate litigation. Civil and criminal cases will no doubt cover topics where a biased judge would take one side or the other because of indoctrination on this topic. Privately held beliefs that are simply wrong, and unknowingly biased.
I totally agree with Kevin Kilty, publish the list of judges that have been indoctrinated. Use that list to push back. Seek true justice with information. Overturn rulings that are unfair.
With Enlightenment came every single humane value that guides our civilization, and makes it worth defending.
Most especially, the rights of the individual to life, conscience, and speech. Enlightenment values ended witch-burning and slavery.
The Enlightenment established consent of the governed and government as the servant of the people — a principle forgotten to our peril.
For all those reasons, collectivists of all stripes detest the Enlightenment.
In this paradigm the rights of the individual count for nothing. What counts is your group identity. And how far you can take it in the hierarchy of victimhood
“”BBC ‘caught lying again’ over resignation of Harvard’s Claudine Gay””
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1851437/bbc-twitter-claudine-gay-harvard-antisemitism-allegations
She didn’t resign over the plagiarism or antisemitism, no she was a victim of racism
She was a victim of her own racism. She thought she was entitled to do whatever she could get away with because she was not white (and probably not male).
“no she was a victim of racism”
Yep, rac!sm is wot hired her and put her, a person wholly unqualified and unprepared to be Pres of HAAVHAHD, into this terrible situation, so rac!sm is to blame, PERIOD!
The non answers by the 3 female college presidents regarding antisemitism and genocide clearly shows, IMHO, that these 3 women were hired due to their gender, not to any degree, by their qualifications. The minimum qualification for the highly political position of leftist college president would be the ability to l!e to cover for their antisemitic and racist beliefs.
The ruling leftist boards that hired them have become so comfortable in their leftist echo chamber that they had no concern about actual results, just the virtue they could signal by the act of placing incompetents in such positions of power.
Sorry Pat but your conclusion is far too simplistic. Our modern world is built on the moral pillars of the Judeo-Christian worldview, whether you look at our legal system, culture, or science/technology. Lookup Newton, Kepler, Galileo, and Pascal to name a few.
Agreed toddzrx. I’m late to the party, but I was surprised to see Pat’s comment get so many upvotes given the obviously false first sentence. I greatly admire Pat’s scientific work, but I’m surprised to hear him say humane values originated with the Enlightenment. What a strange comment.
Enlightenment talk is cheap. It’s reality that counts. Why is this guy ignored by moderns?
“Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.”
― Étienne de La Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
“biological reality aligns with the real reality of two sexes (everything else is mental illness)”
There are more chromosome combinations than just these two basic ones
XY – male
XX- female
such as X, XXY and other.
Then there are added complexities of mutations that result in development of organisms with both male and female organs. Hermaphrodites actually exist.
Calling this mental illness is unethical.
Please educate yourself.
Those few mutations, like hermaphrodites, have medical/biological infirmities. Thankfully, that is exceedingly rare.
If a person has XX chromosomes and thinks they are male, then they have a mental illness.
If a person has XY chromosomes and thinks they are female, then they have a mental illness.
Pandering to mental illness delusions is unethical.
Well said Brad ! 🙂
Sex = Hardware
Gender = Software glitch
Someone, you are using rare genetic and developmental conditions to intentionally confuse sex with gender. Objectively measurable intersex is very rare, less than 2 in 10,000 births. When medical professionals, families and individuals encounter these rare conditions, an individual course of mental and physical healthcare can be applied in such cases where biological sex is not so easily categorized. Limited surveys of truly intersex persons indicate that, not surprisingly, these genetic and developmental anomalies carry with them in general poorer health and longevity outcomes.
As for gender, such as the current social contagion among adolescent girls, this largely represents a mental illness problem. Unfortunately, in current society, advocacy groups have so confounded the topic that it is difficult to separate persons with intrinsic anomalous sex characteristics from those suffering from mental illness or simply making poor, unhealthy lifestyle choices.
Human sexuality research and care are suffering from the same abuses we at WUWT have long observed in “climate science.”
As someone pointed out, “I don’t recognize your pronouns for the same reason I don’t recognize a schizophrenic person’s imaginary friends.”
Now leave Richard Greene out of this.
… Great short comment ! 🙂
Many people are born with afflictions that they have to deal with throughout their lives.
Most don’t feel compelled to assail the general public with the details of their afflictions, and how that makes them deserving of “special” recognition.
“Transgenderism” is an unworthy affliction for special consideration in my opinion.
Just appropriate mental health support in adjusting to their circumstances.
Someone,
Given the 1,200 people in the USA that meet your above described description, will you please tell the other 160,000 that are jumping on the bandwagon that they are harming the people with the real problems.
Today on the local talk radio station, a progressive caller claimed that parents of actual hermaphrodites “might not recognize” the condition until the children approached puberty and declared their “intersex” gender. I wish the host had asked the caller if they had ever changed a diaper.
My son has XXY. This sort of condition affects ~ 0.5% of the population.
The rest of the “Trans” community suffers from mental illness. The vast majority of people should not have to indulge or cooperate with people suffering from non-genetic gender diaspora.
Having 3 sex chromosomes affects about 1 in 500 men and 1 in 1000 women, a UK scientific study has found. However, in the majority of cases it has no apparent effect at all, in the second largest group it has only minor effects – in a small minority it can present as severe effects such as medical intersex issues, infertility and/or respiratory issues.
Many of the people who are now grouped together under the Trans umbrella should not be there at all – they are fetishists, transvestites and cross-dressers who get a sexual thrill from dressing up as the opposite sex but have no dysphoria issues or any desire to transition. The majority of problems; attacks, political manipulation and vitriol appear to come from these people who simply are not Trans, despite the fiction they try to maintain. I make no judgement on whether being Trans in any of these subgroups constitute mental illness as the definitions are different in many countries.
I’m darned sure you know the author isn’t talking about hermaphrodites when he claims there are only 2 sexes. I’ve yet to see a protest for hermaphrodite rights.
Are judges mostly appointed (Colorado) or elected (California)? I live in CA, and at the election time I know nothing about candidate judges, so I simply don’t vote for any. Where can I learn about judge candidates?
Get yourself arrested?
If your local paper is like the LV Review Journal, they give a rating of judges.
Also although a judge’s election is supposed to be non political, I am sure your local political parties list their preferred judicial candidates.
Do a little research and vote.
If you are in Cali, in most location, voting against the local leftist newspaper’s recommended candidate would probably be a good bet.
This is bias masquerading as science “ education “. Even without delving into the political/ philosophical aspects of the foundations of western civilization. WUWT is the perfect example of what is probably ( almost definitely missing )from their curriculum and if anyone should know better it is some tasked with being a fair an impartial judge.
So should we see Robespierre as a good guy or …a little naive ? Did’nt he make the mistake of not knocking off the bad guys before they took him out.
It’s all grey areas, no ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys’. Robespierre was a leader of the ‘Montagnards’ a radical left-wing organisation who favoured politically motivated violence within France to maintain strict order but a more peaceful foreign policy. The Montagnards were opposed by the ‘Girondists’ who were a little more right-wing, favoured a more liberal approach within France but a highly aggressive foreign policy to conquer or subjugate Europe. The Girondists had Robespierre and the leaders of the Montagnards arrested and executed and the Montagnards broken as a political opposition.
If anything we should probably view Robespierre as someone trying to force a minority ideology on a majority, not someone trying to lead a country of disparate groups.
Most revolutions bring out all the wings- then eventually the normal, ordinary non wing, common sense people settle things down, or so it seems to me, being a fan of old time Yankee common sense- a perspective almost extinct now in this region, as we see with Hah-vid and it’s DEI.
All the science you need to know about the actual impacts of “
climate change” global warming:–Measured global temperature trend over the last 40 years is 1.3-ish Celsius per 100 years.
–Measured global sea level trend over the last 30 years is 0.3-ish meters per 100 years.
-The link between carbon dioxide or methane and recent atmospheric warming is tenuous because it’s obscured by water vapor and, so far, impossible to measure because the physics in a dynamic atmosphere is extremely complicated. Based on the above measurements, their effect on warming is demonstrably much less than claimed, and probably fairly small.
-All the rest is speculation, hyperbole, and nonsense.
The Church of AGW is quietly organizing its own inquisition force. Expect more calls for jailing “climate deniers”.
More than 0? Really working hard on getting that victim status.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/we-should-consider-jailing-climate-1408005821702198.html
You should pay more attention to what your fellow AGW junkies are saying…
.. else you also will end up as being called a “denier” by a bunch of scientifically ignorant AGW cultists.
Ok leave the Guillotines out then. So we need to take our science and arguments into action against these corruptive forces. But how?
I wish someone had an answer to that
Ask a potential candidate if they have read the blogs from WUWT, Dr. Roy Spencer, Marc Morano, Willie Soon, Judith Curry, and Jo Nova. If they are unfamiliar with any or all of those resources then they are probably misinformed so vote against them.
Mary Robinson, who was the president of Ireland from 1990-1997, was at the age of 25 appointed Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin and the same year elected as a senator. Yes, 25 years old, with no experience of life and not having worked in a real job and not yet married.
Essentially she was a legal activist and is now Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice in Trinity College. She had a book published Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution 2018. A discerning reader will notice that she loves telling stories and weaving her climate views through these stories. A good lawyer will listen carefully to both sides of the debate but Robinson seems only interested in one side, her side. She loves the phrase “climate justice” but this phrase is nonsensical.
Justice can only be concerned about what is tangible, what can be measured or weighed or physically observed. We cannot engineer a perfect climate for each of the 30 climate zones and sub-zones. We actually cannot even quantify what would be ideal for each whether temperature or rainfall. How can a court wade into the complexities of climate and weather? Is a court of law able to determine both the benefits and harms of fossil fuels vs renewables especially as the development of the latter is still in its infancy? Can a court base its verdict on speculation and anticipation and artificial computer models? Can a court ignore the history of fossil fuels and the enormous benefits these have had since the industrial revolution? Climate justice has nothing to do with real justice but is a perversion of justice to promote the cause of climate alarmists. America’s judiciary are fools for allowing themselves to be exploited in this way.
“”Adjunct””
Attached in a dependent or subordinate position….
The problem is that no such post should even exist at a proper, rigorous university. This is a purely political appointment. I recently noticed another Irish university with a surprising number of diversity appointees. Students now know far more than their parents and grandparents but there has been a dumbing down. They have great difficulty in reasoning logically and are deficient in common sense.
Add Junk !
She should work for the BBC’s Climate team and Verify lol
What I am seeing is the potential for escalation. Once the system goes this corrupt ( like it clearly is now) people start reaching the breaking point. We already have lost a chunk of our constitutional rights, we have political prisoners, urban areas around the western world have” immigrants” running out of control in the streets, judiciary corrupted, elections corruption. And talk of jailing for scientific opinion. Then say we add in a sudden and sharp economic down turn. What happens then?
Sorry, but the world isn’t that scary.
Keep an eye on Holland. It won’t be shutting down 3,000 farms….
Cooling phases, historically, have been periods of social unrest and economic hardship. We had better be warming, the alternative would be most unpleasant.
I hope the The Thinker understands that The Enlightenment itself is on the docket, as is the Industrial Revolution.
Will these illegal actions be upheld?
If the participation of these judges in these “training” sessions is not illegal, it sure as heck should be.
It should be considered ‘improper influence’ at the least, ‘attempting to pervert the course of justice’ at worst.
And that is where we should come back to Aiken, and look her direct & indirect contacts with this organization (and her children’s direct/indirect contacts with this organization).
Does climate change ‘arbitration training’ include a template for post decision requirements that push negotiations? Does the ‘arbitration training’ let everyone know that arbitration between colluding parties gets an outcome that can be much more attractive than the best available court decision?
And, Aiken is retiring as soon as she/they can find an acceptable (activist) replacement … the end of this year at the very latest.
So, this case is her big finale.
She’s not the only one who is considering (or has considered) pro-AGW propaganda as a ‘legacy’ action. It’s a popular pastime amongst the older celebs and world leaders, all of whom are old enough to know better.
The image above the article’s title needs refinement. In addition to being spoon-fed, the judges should be seated in highchairs with trays and dressed in bibs.
Those on the left are practiced in subversion and sabotage from within. It has worked for them in government, in education, and in other fields even supposedly objective sciences so why not in the law, too?
What is right and what is wrong, what is moral and ethical, has nothing to do with it. Ideology is everything, leading to control and stamping out freedom as the end goals. For our own good, of course…
Every religion has either collapsed, faded away or adapted when their dogma is revealed as inconsistent with reality and/or adverse to the well-being of the adherents. The climate religion may do so in an accelerated manner given the enormous erosion of industrial capabilities and quality of life it has already inflicted after just a few decades. In the mean time the adherents continue to inflict further economic and social pain with not an ounce of insight as to their idiocy.
Zoroastrianism and Judaism are the two oldest religions still going (nobody’s sure which of the 2 is the oldest) but they still have adherents and followers in their respective faiths. Not sure your comment is necessarily correct.
Zoroastrianism started in Iran- so, probably few left.
Not entirely sure. It became the state religion of the Persian Empire, of which modern Iran is a very small part, but it’s difficult to pin down exactly where it began.
It began in somebody’s wild imagination, as all religions, IMHO.
To be fair, Richard, Andy did qualify his statement with “is revealed as inconsistent with reality and/or adverse to the well-being of the adherents.”
I don’t know enough about either of those to take a position on that.
Religions are, almost by definition, inconsistent with reality dealing as they do with things beyond the physical world – this is what makes them a religion and not a scientific principle, for example. To paraphrase Andy, he seems to be saying that religions disappear when they are revealed as a religion – a very circular argument and completely untrue.
Unfortunately, they seldom disappear.
Once again the Warmist Alarmists score an auto-gol. In the future these creatures will be called upon to recuse themselves.
Damn, Kevin Kilty stole my thunder. I see this as a great opportunity. We need a list of all those trained by this group not just judges. There is a better than even chance that all those receiving this training are in a position to influence the outcome of the CAGW issue. People who sit in judgement of others must hear both sides whether they like it or not. If a judge has received training on one side of a controversial issue it is only right that he recuse himself but I have a better idea. We need to get hold of those who have been to these training sessions and demand they hear the other side, the same as if they were in a court room. Some may not want to hear both sides but in order to make a sound judgement they must hear both sides. We need to assemble our own instructors so we can help these important people conduct themselves from a position of knowledge not indoctrination. We need to get moving.
They’re a prolific and incestuous lot. Here’s Raw Story with more Grist for the mill-
24 climate predictions for 2024 (msn.com)
Essentially an online barrage of storytellers grooming the vulnerable Gretaheads making them anxious and neurotic-
Grist – About Us | Grist
What exactly is a “sharp relief”?
Here’s some sharp relief 😉
‘It’s time’: Calls grow to ditch ‘diversity, equity and inclusion movement’ (msn.com)
You get the feeling the winds of change are blowing and the silent majority have had enough.