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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: July 17, 2015, 7:03 pm
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
FLORIDA’S SOLAR FIGHT [i]GETS MEANER [/i]
Second group launches solar energy ballot initiative
Jim Turner, July 16, 2015 (Sun Sentinel)
“A new ‘pro solar-energy’
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/>coalition will push for its own ballot initiative as a way to
counter a separate group's proposed constitutional amendment to
expand the use of solar energy in Florida… Consumers for Smart
Solar [img width=40
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/> [img width=40
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/>, a group whose leadership includes two former state lawmakers
,
a Jacksonville tea-party founder, and a former chairman of the
Florida Public Service Commission…will race to collect
signatures to get on the 2016 ballot alongside the ongoing
effort by a group known as Floridians for Solar Choice [to make
solar leasing possible in the state]…
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“[M]embers of the new group
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under review by the state Supreme Court — as a ‘power grab
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/> by out-of-state [national solar installers like SolarCity and
Sunrun]… Floridians for Solar Choice [which includes the
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, the Florida Retail
Federation, Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship, the
Ecology Party of Florida, the Evangelical Environmental Network,
Greenpeace USA, the Sierra Club Florida, the Space Coast Climate
Change Initiative and The Tea Party Network] responded that the
newest opposition ‘is a slickly developed campaign to
potentially confuse voters’ and said it believes the effort is
supported by [i][traditional fossil fuel and nuclear interests
and utilities[/i]]…”
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Agelbert NOTE: The fossil fuelers and nuke pukes never stop
trying to pull the wool over our eyes while they fleece AND
poison us 24/7. I hope the Floridians for Solar Choice expose
the "Consumers for Smart Solar" (See Orwell) profit over people
and planet, Empathy Deficit Disordered skullduggery for all to
see.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: July 23, 2015, 4:57 pm
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Corruption of Government and Environment by Fossil Fuel
Companies
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: October 7, 2015, 6:30 pm
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[move]Watch The Fossil Fuel Government DO WHAT IT DOES to
prevent the fossil fuel industry from being held liable for, and
paying for, their CRIMES. >:([/move]
Climate Scientist Faces Backlash for Urging Investigation of
Fossil Fuel Companies
Jagadish Shukla will be questioned by a Congressional committee
after he and other scientists called for a racketeering probe of
deliberate climate denial.
By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News
Oct 7, 2015
This story was updated on Oct. 7 at 2:00 p.m.
A climate scientist who was the lead signatory on a letter
urging President Obama to launch a federal investigation into
whether fossil fuel companies "knowingly deceived the American
people about the risks of climate change" is now facing an
investigation by Congress because of his part in the letter.
Jagadish Shukla
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a
climate scientist at George Mason University in Virginia,
received notice Oct. 1 that the non-profit research organization
he runs, the Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES),
will soon be investigated by the House Committee on Science,
Space and Technology for suspected misuse of federal funding.
Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas
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who chairs the House
committee, requested that Shukla and IGES "preserve all e-mail,
electronic documents, and data (‘electronic records’) created
since January 1, 2009," according to the notice.
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The investigation stems from Shukla's involvement in the letter
to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and White
House science advisor John Holdren on Sept. 1. The letter's 20
signees—climate scientists from Columbia University, the
National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of
Maryland and other institutions—asked the administration to
explore whether energy companies could be prosecuted under the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) of
1970 for purposefully casting doubt on the scientific evidence
for climate change. Federal prosecutors used the RICO Act in the
1990s and 2000s to sue tobacco companies for covering up the
health impacts of smoking. ScienceInsider first reported Smith's
investigation.
Shukla's research organization, IGES, posted a copy of the RICO
letter to its website—a move that Smith told Shukla "raises
serious concerns" ::) over a taxpayer-funded scientific group
"participating in partisan political activity." The research
center has received funds from the National Science Foundation,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.
"Promoting a lobbying effort and publicizing that effort on a
website is not an appropriate use of federal research funds," an
aide for the House Science, Space and Technology Committee told
InsideClimate News.
"Additional questions have been raised regarding the fiscal
management of federal grant dollars received by IGES and the
transfer of IGES to George Mason University," the aide said. The
committee will be looking into the salaries of Shukla and his
wife Anastasia, who works as the organization's business
manager.
[quote]"I signed this letter as a private citizen on personal
time, urging action on climate change, and I have been shocked
by the reaction," Shukla told InsideClimate News. "Any
allegations of inappropriate behavior are untrue." [img
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IGES said the letter was posted on its website inadvertently. It
has since been removed.
"IGES's recent decision to remove documents from its website
raises concerns that additional information vital to the
Committee's investigation may not be preserved," Smith wrote.
Smith informed Shukla he and his colleagues had until Oct. 8 to
inform the House Committee on how IGES would comply with the
request.
"The House Science Committee isn’t going after Dr. Shukla and
his colleagues for their scientific work, but for their opinions
as private citizens," said Michael Halpern, program manager of
the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned
Scientists. "Scientists have the same right as anyone to engage
in the political process and express their beliefs without fear
of being hauled before Congress for their views."
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Smith's investigation is just the latest in a long line of
probes into climate scientists by conservative politicians. In
2005, Republican Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, who was then Chair of
the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, examined the work of
climate scientists Michael Mann of Penn State and Ray Bradley of
the University of Massachusetts. Over the last decade, the
scientific community has had to field an increasing number of
public records requests from conservative groups looking to cast
doubt on their research.
"Overall, scientists whose work is policy relevant are certainly
under more scrutiny than ever before through a variety of means,
from subpoenas to open records requests, and need to be prepared
to respond to that scrutiny," said Halpern. Such investigations,
he said, "can send the wrong message to researchers about how
valuable their expertise is to society. We need scientists to
engage in public conversations on science-based issues, no
matter how contentious the topic."
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The biggest difference between Smith's investigation today and
the one Mann and Bradley faced in 2005, Mann said, is that "back
then, there were a number of moderate pro-science,
pro-environment Republicans who came to my defense. Chief among
them was Sherwood Boehlert—an old-school Republican from upstate
New York."
[quote]"Unfortunately, we no longer have moderate republicans
like Boehlert chairing the House science committee," said Mann.
>:([/quote]
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[center]The old fossil fuel industry FUNDED witch hunt.
>:([/center]
Shukla and his colleagues' letter was sent three weeks before an
eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News showed that
ExxonMobil's own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in
climate change in the 1970s and 1980s. The company then spent
the next two decades funding a campaign to derail climate
regulations and question climate science.
"If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their
supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented
in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these
misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible,"
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Shulka
and the other climate scientists wrote in the letter.
Holdren wrote back to the researchers that "the [Obama]
administration shares the concern expressed in the letter about
the seriousness of the threat posed by climate change,"
according to ScienceInsider.
ScienceInsider also reported that Shulka is not the only
signatory of the letter facing backlash.
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/>a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a
Washington, D.C.-based libertarian think tank, filed a public
records request with several of the signatories' universities
for emails contained the words "RICO, racketeer, racketeering,
DOJ, prosecute or prosecution."
[center][quote] "If they believe this is part of their job, we
will not dispute that, but instead would like to see how the
institutions were used in this innovative application of public
education resources,"
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[move][I][font=impact]The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Climate
Trashing, human health depleteing CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but
since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks,
they are trying to AVOID [/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING
THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: October 7, 2015, 7:59 pm
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British Government Accused of Distorting Market in Support of
Fossil Fuels and Nukes >:(
Alex Kirby, Climate News Network | October 7, 2015 10:14 am
One of the pioneers of the UK’s renewable energy industry says
the British government is distorting the market in an attempt to
support fossil fuels and nuclear power.
Onshore wind farms in the UK have had government support cut.
Photo credit: Andy Magee / Flickr
Onshore wind farms in the UK have had government support cut.
Photo credit: Andy Magee / Flickr
His accusation comes as the industry’s trade association,
RenewableUK, announces that in the second quarter of this year
renewable energy produced 25.3 percent of the country’s
electricity—more than either nuclear power (21.5 percent) or
coal (20.5 percent).
The accuser is Dale Vince, who in 1995 founded the green energy
company Ecotricity, which supplies almost 170,000 British
customers with wind and solar power.
He is challenging the government to scrap its subsidies for
nuclear power and fossil fuels in order to “create a level
playing field” after it cut support for renewable energy.
[center]Abandon Policies
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Last month, the influential Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) said countries should
abandon fossil fuel support policies.
Vince said that in the second quarter of 2015 renewable energy
had, for the first time, outperformed the nuclear and coal
industries. And it had done so with a fraction of the subsidies
that fossil fuels and nuclear power enjoyed.
He said:
[quote][color=blue]“Renewable energy receives one-tenth of the
support that fossil fuels do, yet powers 25 percent of the
country. And government says only renewable energy has to stand
on its own two feet. It makes no economic sense. Britain is
blessed with enough renewable energy to power our entire country
several times over, safely, without pollution and at the lowest
cost of all energy sources.”[/color][/quote]
Vince added that the International Monetary Fund put UK
subsidies to the fossil industries in Britain at £30 billion
(US$45.5 bn) annually—more than £1,000 (US$1,500) per household
per year. “In contrast, support for all renewable energy
amounted to £2.6 billion last year, about £100 per household per
year, with onshore wind—which is the main focus of government
attacks—adding just £10 to household energy bills.”
“Unfortunately, the government appears ideologically opposed to
renewable energy and has moved to put a stop to this incredible
success story, ” says Vince.
“It is not just cutting all support and increasing planning
hurdles, but even going so far as to make renewable energy pay
the Climate Change Levy, which is (or was) a tax on fossil fuels
to fund climate change measures. Renewable energy in Britain now
effectively subsidizes the fossil fuel industry—to the tune of
£1 billion every year, ” he adds.
Last week, the government announced it would pay a further £2 bn
to encourage the Chinese to build a new nuclear power station at
Hinkley Point in the west of England.
Vince said the plant would be paid twice the market price for
power, for the next 35 years—”and then we’ll have to clean up
the mess left behind, which already amounts to £120 billion for
the current fleet of nuclear plants being decommissioned.”
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Widespread
Criticism
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Plans by the government to supplement its aging fleet of nuclear
power stations with a new reactor at Hinkley Point is attracting
widespread criticism—not just from anti-nuclear campaigners, but
also from the energy industry and investment banks.
The government is also intent on exploiting shale gas. As the
energy and climate change secretary, Amber Rudd, explained in
August: “We are backing the safe development of shale gas
because it’s good for jobs, giving hardworking people and their
families more financial security, good for our energy security
and part of our plan to decarbonize the economy.”
“We need more secure, home-grown energy supplies—and shale gas
must play a part in that.”
As claims mount that the UK’s energy policy is in disarray, the
hapless Rudd has been renamed “Amber Rudderless” by some of her
critics.
The UK government’s policy appears to ignore global trends.
Worldwide, 2015 marks a doubling of the renewable energy sector
from its size just 10 years ago.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: October 24, 2015, 1:39 pm
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What's wrong with the rest of this country? ??? Fossil Fuel
Industry CORRUPTION and THREATS!
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24 States Sue Obama Over Clean Power Plan [img width=200
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[quote][I]Robert F. Kennedy Jr: In the next decade there will be
an epic battle for survival for humanity against the forces of
ignorance and greed. It’s going to be Armageddon, represented by
the oil industry on one side, versus the renewable industry on
the other. And people are going to have to choose sides –
including politically.
They will have to choose sides because oil and coal, they will
not be able to survive – they are not going to be able to burn
their proven reserves. If they do, then we are all dead.
And they are quite willing to burn it. We’re all going to be
part of that battle. We are going to watch governments being
buffeted by the whims of money and greed on one side, and
idealism and hope on the other.[/I]
[/quote]
Internal Documents Expose Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decades of
Deception on Climate Change.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: November 14, 2015, 5:17 pm
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Monsta said, [quote]Let us assume the false flag theory is true
and this event was planned what would be the objective of such
an event? Would it be to convince the French public to be more
supportive of aggressive military actions or to take a more hard
line approach to immigration? I think if there is a motive it
would more likely be the former as staging an event like this
simply to reduce immigration is overkill.[/quote]
I agree that the motive is not more war in the Middle East or
the immigration thing.
So, WHAT IS THE MOTIVE?
[move]Polluters Goebbels Style Conspiracy to Sabotage
COP21[/move]
Let us connect the war profiteering dots, shall we? Some here
will scoff and say I just discarded "more war" as a motive. Yes,
I did that. But I DID NOT discard WAR SCARE propaganda.
WHAT, EXACTLY, is scheduled to happen next month in PARIS that
threatens the bottom line of ALL the war profiteering ****s all
over the planet?
[b]COP21![/b]
Can you think of a better way to DISTRACT the worldwide public
from the climate change reforms that spell bankruptcy for the
polluting "business models" that RELY on price shocks and wars
to keep making billions of dollars in profits to buy or bop
politicians with?
Can you think of a better way to frighten all the delegates from
all over the world coming to Paris next month?
Can you think of a better way to keep the climate change issue
OFF the front pages while the COP21 conference gets CASTRATED by
the fossil fuel, mining, chemical, weapons manufacturing and
pharmaceutical (etc.) industries?
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/>THESE PEOPLE WILL DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING TO PRESERVE THEIR
PROFITS!
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Polluters: Do not **** with our "business model" or our profits.
:evil4:
IF IT'S BLOOD ON THE STREETS THAT IS CALLED FOR, THEY WILL DO
IT! THEY HAVE A TRACK RECORD FOR DOING IT!. FOLLOW THE GOD
DAMNED MONEY!
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/>$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$ EVERY YEAR!!!
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: November 28, 2015, 3:43 pm
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[center]4 Ways Exxon Stopped Action on Climate Change
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: December 2, 2015, 1:57 pm
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[center]Exxon
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Targets
Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Change Cover-Up
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2015, 2:29 pm
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[center][quote]As the Dec. 23 deadline approaches for the fossil
fuel industry to respond to legal briefs in support of the Clean
Power Plan, the Sierra Club released [font=times new roman]The
Fight Before Christmas[/font], a new version of the beloved
holiday poem [font=times new roman]A Visit from St.
Nicholas[/font], illustrating the activities of corporate
polluters and their allies two nights before
Christmas.[/quote][/center]
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2015, 8:15 pm
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[quote]“Process,” “roadmap,” “framework.” We need to use the
technical word “bulls hit” to describe these phrases. They are
words to describe non-agreements, words to fool the public into
thinking something important has actually been accomplished.
Despite all the hype about how cheap renewal energy is becoming
it’s still cheaper to burn fossil fuels (FF), since FF producers
don’t have to pay a dime to treat their deadly (to the climate)
carbon dioxide waste. Thanks to fracking and other factors the
price of methane (natural gas) is at a 16 year low. The U.S. has
so much oil it can now export it again. The obvious, obvious
need for a tax to pay for FF waste is not mentioned in the
agreement.
The agreement doesn’t even challenge the subsidies that
governments give to the FF industries to go out and find more
carbon to burn. A piece in Scientific American in May 2015
calculated the total yearly amount of these subsidies, a
breathtaking; mind boggling $5 trillion, $5 trillion a year to
hasten the end of a human-favored climate.
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[center]‘Progress’ Is Fatal
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Posted on Dec 21, 2015
By Stanley Heller / PeaceNews
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[move]The REALLY inconvenient truth![/move]
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