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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 28, 2017, 3:56 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: The mens rea purpose of fossil fuel Industry
mendacious propaganda is to produce DOUBT about the danger their
polluting product represents to the biosphere (see below).
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[center]Exxon did know about climate change since the 70s — and
it lied, knowingly
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LAST UPDATED ON AUGUST 28TH, 2017 AT 11:39 AM BY MIHAI ANDREI
SNIPPET:
The world’s largest company knew what was going on for a long
time.
It should surprise no one that ExxonMobil, the world’s largest
oil company, does a lot of science. Many scientists will tell
you that Exxon and other oil companies do some of the best
geology studies out there — and that makes a lot of sense. With
billions in profit every year and a direct interest in
understanding both local and planetary processes, Exxon’s
research and development is booming.
So one can only wonder then, why hasn’t Exxon addressed climate
change earlier? It’s virtually impossible to study earth science
and fossil fuels for so long and not come across anything, yet
Exxon has refuted climate change for many years, saying that
it’s not happening and investing millions and millions into
denying it.
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Well, more and more evidence is lining up that Exxon did know
about climate change, they just lied.
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[center]A mountain of damaged oil drums near an Exxon refinery.
Image credits: EPA.[/center]
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> “On the question of whether ExxonMobil misled non-scientific
audiences about climate science, our analysis supports the
conclusion that it did,” a team from Harvard University writes
in the study.
>
> “ExxonMobil contributed quietly to the science and loudly to
raising doubts about it.”
--- End Quote ---
A conflict of
interests
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Several pieces of evidence have emerged, all indicating that
Exxon purposefully kept climate change science under the lid. It
all peaked in 2015 when an email from inside the company
revealed that Exxon had data pertaining to climate change as
early as 1981 – seven years before it became a public issue.
Full eye opening article:
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[move][I]The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions
suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting
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
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 28, 2017, 6:56 pm
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DENIER ROUNDUP August 28, 2017
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[center]50 Ways to Censor Science [/center]
There are a lot of ways that former presidents have allegedly
censored science or the public in the past. Usually, though,
they spread it out a little so as not to be obvious. Not Trump.
You can explore the different shades of censorship during his
eight-month tenure using just examples from last week.
Last Sunday, we learned that Trump disbanded an advisory group
charged with helping policymakers and the private sector
incorporate the findings of the National Climate Assessment. The
group pledged to keep meeting without official White House
blessing, giving us hope that the public won’t be cut off from
vital climate info. This is the third scientific advisory board
to be disbanded by the Trump administration.
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The next day, it was reported that Trump halted funding for a
study on the health impacts of mountaintop removal mining,
killing an attempt to understand the threats facing those coal
miners he loves so much.
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On Wednesday, the Bay Journal announced that it was losing its
EPA funding, putting the future of the 27 year old Chesapeake
Bay-focused paper in jeopardy. Pruitt has made assurances that
the EPA still cares about cleaning up the Bay, but apparently it
doesn’t care about keeping the public informed. Also on
Wednesday, it was reported that the National Institute of Health
scrubbed the term “climate change” from its site.
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Then on Thursday came a triple-whammy. As explained by Vox,
Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s grid study showed how political
editing can censor out inconvenient facts, and how politicians
can ignore the findings and say whatever they want about the
study.
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Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s “sham review” of
national monuments showed how easy this administration finds
censoring the public. There were literally millions of comments
that were opposed to the administration’s plan of shrinking or
eliminating monuments, but Zinke wrote them off as part of a
“well-organized national campaign.”
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Instead of listening to the public, Zinke chose to do what he
wanted in the first place, and used a handful of pro-industry
comments as justification for shrinking protected lands.
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Thursday’s third example came in a simple tweet: “This is what
censorship looks like”. It looks like that in order to meet the
president’s budget language restrictions, some scientists are
being asked to remove the words “climate change” from the
abstracts of grant proposals.
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Then Friday, in addition to Vice publishing the FOIA’d details
about the climate scientists who weren’t allowed to meet with
Mark Zuckerberg, a small blurb in Politico’s Morning Energy
reported that EPA leadership has decided employees can’t use
social media except for a specific business purpose.
We’d put an ask out on Facebook and Twitter about how staff
members feel about this, but apparently only Trump is allowed to
use social media while at work.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 2, 2017, 1:51 pm
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Democracy Now!
[center]Greenpeace and Indigenous Water Protectors Respond to
Lawsuit
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/>Accusing DAPL Activists of Eco-Terrorism[/center]
Friday, September 01, 2017
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 13, 2017, 5:37 pm
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[center]I Was an Exxon-Funded Climate Scientist
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
By Katharine Hayhoe, The Conversation | Op-Ed
Katharine Hayhoe
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is
director of the Climate Science Center and a professor at Texas
Tech University.
SNIPPET:
--- Quote ---
> Fresh out of Canada, I was unaware that there were people who
didn't accept climate science -- so unaware, in fact, that it
was nearly half a year before I realized I'd married one -- let
alone that Exxon was funding a disinformation campaign at the
very same time it was supporting my research on the most
expedient ways to reduce the impact of humans on climate.
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Yet Exxon's choices have contributed directly to the situation
we are in today, a situation that in many ways seems unreal: one
where many elected representatives oppose climate action, while
China leads the U.S. in wind energy, solar power, economic
investment in clean energy and even the existence of a national
cap and trade policy similar to the ill-fated Waxman-Markey bill
of 2009.
Personal Decisions
This latest study underscores why many are calling on
Exxon
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such a critical issue. For scientists and academics, though, it
may fuel another, different, yet similarly moral debate.
Full article:
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 13, 2017, 5:45 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: The mens rea purpose of fossil fuel Industry
mendacious propaganda is to produce DOUBT about the danger their
polluting product represents to the biosphere (see below).
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[center]Exxon did know about climate change since the 70s — and
it lied, knowingly
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[/center]
LAST UPDATED ON AUGUST 28TH, 2017 AT 11:39 AM BY MIHAI ANDREI
SNIPPET:
The world’s largest company knew what was going on for a long
time.
It should surprise no one that ExxonMobil, the world’s largest
oil company, does a lot of science. Many scientists will tell
you that Exxon and other oil companies do some of the best
geology studies out there — and that makes a lot of sense. With
billions in profit every year and a direct interest in
understanding both local and planetary processes, Exxon’s
research and development is booming.
So one can only wonder then, why hasn’t Exxon addressed climate
change earlier? It’s virtually impossible to study earth science
and fossil fuels for so long and not come across anything, yet
Exxon has refuted climate change for many years, saying that
it’s not happening and investing millions and millions into
denying it.
[center]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-250817124114.png[/center]
Well, more and more evidence is lining up that Exxon did know
about climate change, they just lied.
[center]
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[center]A mountain of damaged oil drums near an Exxon refinery.
Image credits: EPA.[/center]
--- Quote ---
> “On the question of whether ExxonMobil misled non-scientific
audiences about climate science, our analysis supports the
conclusion that it did,” a team from Harvard University writes
in the study.
>
> “ExxonMobil contributed quietly to the science and loudly to
raising doubts about it.”
--- End Quote ---
A conflict of
interests
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Several pieces of evidence have emerged, all indicating that
Exxon purposefully kept climate change science under the lid. It
all peaked in 2015 when an email from inside the company
revealed that Exxon had data pertaining to climate change as
early as 1981 – seven years before it became a public issue.
Full eye opening article:
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HTML http://www.zmescience.com/science/exxon-knew-climate-change-26082017/
[move][I]The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions
suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting
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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/>[/I][/move]
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 13, 2017, 5:56 pm
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September 13, 2017
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[center]Five German companies
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/>among most active lobbying against climate policy[/center]
Five major companies from Germany are among the world’s 35 most
active anti-climate policy lobbying enterprises, British think
tank InfluenceMap says. In a study that examines the companies
most influential in shaping climate and energy policy around the
world, Germany’s BASF, Bayer, Heidelberg Cement, Daimler and BMW
figure among those who “delay or dilute efficiency and CO2
emissions standards and procedures both in Europe and North
America” the think tank argues.
Estimating a company’s impact on climate change solely by
gauging their greenhouse gas emission “may be incomplete”,
InfluenceMap says in a study, arguing that their influence on
climate-related public discourse and policy from governments
merits similar attention.
On the other hand, InfluenceMap says Germany’s EnBW and Deutsche
Telekom are among the companies most active in using their
influence to further energy transition and emissions reduction
goals.
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 13, 2017, 6:13 pm
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[center]Corporate Carbon Policy Footprint - the 50 Most
Influential[/center]
An InfluenceMap Report
September 2017
SNIPPET:
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> "The data shows the climate policy agenda, in terms of
corporate influencing, is being driven by a small number of
massive global corporations. It also shows a group of powerful
of companies in the tech, consumer goods and utilities sectors
increasingly pushing for policy to implement the Paris
Agreement." - Dylan Tanner, Executive Diretor, InfluenceMap
>
> “Lobbying should come under the same scrutiny as any other
business activity. If companies are making a concerted effort to
undermine climate policy, they may well be driving a systemic
risk that will impact portfolios.” - Alice Garton, Corporate
lawyer, ClientEarth
>
> "Corporations can greatly influence what policies are adopted
to address climate change. Thus it is important to extend the
analysis of corporate behavior beyond its physical emissions.
This accounting system clearly shows which corporations are
assisting in a transition to a low carbon future, and those that
are hindering this effort. Investors concerned about climate
change need to take corporate policy actions into account in
their investment decisions." - Robert J. Brulle, Professor of
Sociology and Environmental Science, Drexel University
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 30, 2017, 6:31 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Houston got promised 15 billion or so. Puerto
Rico, much worse hit, got promised one Billion or
so.
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/> But you Texans that don't work for the polluters had better
not
count on gettin' a fair amount of that 15 billion.
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September 30, 2017
[center]Will Harvey Disaster Relief Go to Climate
Polluters?[/center]
[center]Many are concerned that most of the aid will go toward
Texas businesses--including the fossil fuel industry, which
contributed to the climate-change related catastrophe in the
first place. TRNN speaks with Reggie James, director of the
Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter[/center]
[center]
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 3, 2017, 6:03 pm
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[center]Corruption, Corruption, Corruption[/center]
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Sep. 29, 2017 3:30 pm
While the CDC budget is being slashed, Thom discovers that the
rich are flying around the world using our military planes?
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Re: Re: Fossil Fuel Skulldugggery
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 4, 2017, 2:03 pm
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[center]Resilience is Illegal in Florida >:([/center]
By Tom Lewis | September 19, 2017 | Energy
Let’s say you live in Florida. Yes, I know, that requires us to
assume you are pretty oblivious to the rising seas and corrosive
stupidity assailing the state from every direction, but let’s
just say you live in Florida. No offense.
You’re smart enough to know that life in Hurricane Alley could
get difficult, and you live after all in the Sunshine State, so
you installed solar panels on your roof, enough to run your
house, just in case. Now, we just assumed [b]you
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were dense enough to
choose to live in Florida [/b], so let’s assume, on the other
side of the ledger, that you are smart enough
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to
have avoided some of the major pitfalls of the rooftop solar
business.
Number one, you avoided the trap of the new solar panels with
the built-in inverters. Designed for and marketed to the
accountants among us, who see solar panels primarily as a way to
reduce power bills, these new-age solar panels save you the
trouble of buying and installing a separate inverter to bump the
output from 12 volts — what the panels produce — to 120 volts —
what most things in your house require.
You didn’t do that because it gradually dawned on you — they
never tell you this up front — that the panels require power
from the grid to run the inverters. Know what that means? In a
power outage, your new solar panels are useless.* When the grid
is down, your panels will churn out tons of 12 volt current that
you can’t use because you can’t plug your panels into the grid.
Now, because you’re smart about these things, you didn’t buy the
new solar panels. To you, saving a few bucks by selling your
excess solar-panel output to the power company is not as
important as saving your butt in an emergency.
Okay, so far so good. But this is where you run into Florida
Power and Light(FPL), the state’s monopolistic and avaricious
electric utility company. Snag #1: If you install more than 10
kilowatts worth of solar panels, you must pay FPL up to $1,000
for the privilege. Not for the panels, not for anything but the
privilege. Why? Because they can.
Snag #2: You are not going to be allowed to go off the grid.
Even if you have installed enough solar power to run your house
and you want to do it, you are required by law to connect your
system to the grid. And you have to pay a monthly fee for that
privilege, too.
If you are getting the impression that FPL regulates Florida
state government, and not the other way around, you’re getting
the right picture. FPL made more than a billion dollars in
profits last year, and that’s after spending millions to induce
lawmakers to hobble solar panel owners.
(That’s not all the lobbyists do, of course. After Hurricane
Wilma killed the power to 75 per cent of FPL’s customers, the
state government girded it legislative loins and insisted that
the utility do better next time. The lobbyists put out all the
fires with assurances that FPL had “hardened” the grid against
hurricane damage and would do much better next time. Next time
was Wilma. This time, 90 per cent of FPL’s customers lost power.
)
So let’s say you’re one of them, but this time it’s different
for you. You’ve spent over $30,000 on a solar system, and your
roof is generating all the power you need. You have a switch
that disconnects your system from the grid and allows you to use
the power you are making while the grid is down.
Snag #3, aka The Big One: You are prohibited by law from
throwing that switch. That’s right. The law, written by FPL,
requires you to install the switch and forbids you to use it.
The rationale is that you might accidentally back-feed the grid
and shock a lineman. You live in Florida, after all, and might
not be able to distinguish between the label that says “ON” and
the one that says “OFF.”
This is the state that will not permit anyone in government to
use the words “climate change,” and that ignores the rising seas
that are intruding at high tide into the streets of Miami Beach,
Coral Gables, and countless coastal developments.
And you live in this state?
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* Agelbert NOTE: There is an OFF GRID work around for the solar
panel with micro-inverters that require grid power. ;D Tom
Lewis correctly takes Floridians to task for their stupid
fascist laws and the stupidity of a government not allowed to
talk about the in-your-face climate change destroying their
state, but he forgot to mention that solar panels with
individual micro-inverters are far more efficient than a system
with a single large inverter because large inverters reduce the
output from the ENTIRE system of panels when a SINGLE panel is
in partial or complete shade. Micro-inverters reduce power only
from the shaded panel while the others are getting the maximum
into your battery and/or appliances.
Finally, there is no way in God's good Earth that the Republican
Fossil fuel and Nuclear power defending government of Florida is
going to be able to enforce the "law" requiring that you not
throw that switch. ;D
VERY SOON, ANOTHER hurricane (see NHC web site) is headed to
Florida, this time near the Capital of Tallahassee (God must
have heard Tom Lewis.
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) . Let's see how
many people avoid "throwing that switch" when they ain't got no
juice from the grid. They HAVE to throw the switch to isolate
house power from the grid or some workman on a pole restoring
power after the storm will be fried to death.
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Therefore, the Florida
polluter welfare queen defending "law" is unenforceable in a
court of law.
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