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Schwarzenegger’s ‘Shakedown’

March 12, 2018 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-12-horner-blog.mp3

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently announced he would be working to bring forth lawsuits against the big oil companies “for knowingly killing people all over the world,” but a leading policy expert says this sort of legal action is nothing short of a “shakedown.”

Schwarzenegger revealed his intentions at the annual SXSW festival in Texas during an interview with Politico’s “Off Message” podcast.

“This is no different from the smoking issue. The tobacco industry knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would kill people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding that fact from the people and denied it. Then eventually they were taken to court and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars because of that.

“The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people’s lives, that it would kill,” said Schwarzenegger.

He says legal action is coming.

“We are now talking to law firms to go and do exactly the same thing as they’ve done in the tobacco industry, where we sue the oil companies for knowingly killing people all over the world.  There’s 7-9 million people dying every year because of pollution because of fossil fuels,” said Schwarzenegger.

Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner believes there’s not much sound logic behind this legal effort.

“I think he’s beginning with the seed of something he’s heard somewhere and then just flying off into nutty land,” said Horner.  “I know it’s very fashionable, including in the courts in California, to say things where he begins, but it doesn’t make it any more sane.”

Horner also takes aim at the 7-9 million people who supposedly die from man-caused global warming each year.  He has no idea where Schwarzenegger gets that number.

“That’s a lot, so I guess he could name 7-9 of them, right?  But no, he can’t.  They just sort of pull these things out of the ether.  There are computer models to do everything this agenda requires, including computer model statistical deaths.  They don’t have names or toe tags,” said Horner, who says he does have the names of people who died because of energy poverty, which he asserts is the end result of the climate change agenda.

“We do have names and toe tags and I’ve got a whole Power Point presentation drawn from the English-speaking press about seniors who have died of hypothermia as these policies take root in the UK.

“There are people who are dying from energy poverty, which comes when, as one man put it, this causes your electricity rates to ‘necessarily skyrocket,'” said Horner, quoting then-presidential candidate Barack Obama from 2008.

Horner says this sort of threatened legal action is really just a money grab.

“In essence, this is a shakedown.  In 2012, there was a meeting out in -surprise – California, in La Jolla, in which they produced a report.  The report said if they could just get one sympathetic attorney general or district attorney to start subpoenaing these people’s documents to use against them, then we could wring this big settlement out of them,” said Horner.

This is not conjecture, says Horner.  He says the left openly admitted this strategy until they got called on it.

“The lawyer who started all this for all of these plaintiffs, named Matt Pawa, admitted to Nation magazine that they were tired of waiting for legislation, and so they were going to try to use the courts.  He later denied to the Washington Times that he ever said that,” said Horner.

“We caught him, using Freedom of Information Act requests, working with state attorneys general to push this agenda because it was a failed agenda through the proper political process,” said Horner.

But while the total number of people dying from hazardous environmental conditions may not be quantifiable, many climate change activists point to poor air quality in places like Los Angeles, Beijing, and beyond.

Horner says that’s a non sequitur.

“They’ll yell about catastrophic, man-made global warming and immediately shift to cancer and smog.  That’s what you call changing the subject,” he said.

“I would change the subject too.  It’s not called catastrophic man-made global smogging.  You’re talking about a pollutant and a pollution issue for which we have regulatory regimes.  You want to reduce smog, go through the smog laws and regulations we have,” said Horner.

“But that wouldn’t really pay off, would it?  That wouldn’t pay off the trial lawyers.  That wouldn’t pay off your political constituencies through these tobacco-style settlements,” he added.

Horner says the climate change agenda is still dangerous even though activists are not convincing the public or lawmakers to enact their policies.

“No one has ever spent this kind of money and not prevailed, except for the Soviets, as the global warming industry.  And it does end up at a number called the bottom of every list.  The environment is at the bottom and this is at the bottom of environmental concerns.

“And let me tell you, thank you people like Gov. Schwarzenegger.  One of the reasons catastrophic man-made global warming hysteria ranks last is because of this sort of moonbattery.  Keep it up.  If wee didn’t have you, we’d have to invent you,” said Horner.

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Climate Change: Fact vs. Fiction

March 9, 2018 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-7-morano-blog.mp3

Every destructive weather event is not caused by climate change, there is no scientific consensus that human activity is endangering the planet, and there’s no proof the carbon dioxide is actually bad for us.

Those are among the iconoclastic conclusions reached by ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano in his new book, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change.”

The first target for Morano is the environmental movement changing the terminology from global warming to climate change.  Because of that, climate change activists can now chalk up every severe weather event to humans damaging the planet.

“What they try to do is switch it over to extreme weather.  In other words, every drought, flood, hurricane, tornado, and yes blizzard, is now the result of global warming and what they expected.  That was one of the shifts in the name of climate change because then they could cover anything and everything,” said Morano.

But the blame doesn’t stop at weather developments.  He says the climate change movement sees the impact everywhere.

“An increase in prostitution?  That’s global warming.  Vehicle thefts going up? That’s global warming.  Bar room brawls?  That’s global warming.  Bad coffee crop?  That’s global warming.  That’s climate change.  Everything’s shifted over to the name climate change and they blame everything on it,” said Morano.

By 2018, many of the dire climate predictions of flooded coasts and other calamities were predicted to come true.  So how do those scientists explain those erroneous projections?

“They have opposite predictions.  If you bet for both teams to win the Super Bowl, you’re going to be a winner no matter what.  They’ve done that.  They can go back on snow in particular.  Global warming will cause less snow.  That’s what the United Nations said, that’s what the United Nations scientists said.  That’s what was in all these studies.

“But they had a few studies that said global warming will cause an increase in snow.  So they predicted global warming will cause more snow and less snow.  now they can come out and say they predicted it.  They predicted global warming will cause fewer lightning strikes and more lightning strikes.  Now, not matter what happens, they predicted it – more malaria and less malaria, more hurricanes and fewer hurricanes,” said Morano.

But how can a “consensus” of 97 percent of climate scientists be wrong?

Easy, says Morano.  That number is made up and there is nowhere near that kind of consensus.

“One study claiming 97 percent of scientists wasn’t even 97 scientists.  It wasn’t even 87 scientists.  It was 77 scientists and we don’t even know who these 77 anonymous scientists are.  We don’t know their university affiliation.  We don’t know their expertise.

“They got a survey that started with tens of thousands and they whittled it down.  They tortured the data until they got what they wanted,” said Morano.

And Morano stresses the reason for all this sleight of hand is not to be missed.

“In the words of the United Nations climate chief, whom I interviewed for the book, she actually says, ‘We want a centralized transformation that will make life on planet earth very different in order to fight global warming,” said Morano.

He says this is nothing new.

“I go back to the 1970’s and I show that different environmental scares had the same solutions: wealth redistribution, central planning, and global governance.  These are the exact phrases they’ve been using for 40 years trying to promote the solution to the crisis.  Global warming is just the most recent crisis,” said Morano.

Morano interviewed former Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, an ardent opponent of the climate change movement because it reminds him of what he saw for decades behind the Iron Curtain.

“He said, ‘Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, the greatest threat since the fall is ambitious environmentalism from the climate agenda.’  He considers them the greatest threat to liberty, this whole climate agenda.  And this is a man who grew up under that agenda,” said Morano.

Morano is fully confident the truth is on his side in this debate, but he is unsure whether his side will win the debate given the United Nations, most world leaders, Hollywood, the media, and liberal politicians all insisting the science is settled and action must be taken.

He is especially concerned about how early schools are targeting young kids with this message.

“This is absolute brainwashing of children.  They are taught from a very young age that there is no dissent on this issue.  Not only is there no dissent but no dissent is allowed.  You are going to be called an idiot.  You are going to be disenfranchised.  You will have no career unless you toe the line.  This is very far from science.

“One scientist I interviewed was actually called a heretic after she reversed her view and became a skeptic.  Those are not the words of science.  Those are the words of religion,” said Morano.

Morano says he wrote the book to give kids and parents a way to push back.

“The book is an entertaining, humorous book first and foremost.  Make no mistake about it, this is not a boring textbook.  This is for parents and for anyone in the public who wants to debate and parents who want ammunition as their kids get indoctrinated,” said Morano.

He applauds President Trump for setting the U.S. on the path to withdrawing from the Paris climate deal and for rolling back a number of government regulations from water rules to emissions standards on coal-fired power plants.  Still, Morano urges Trump to find a science czar to push back on the science as well as the damage such rules could do to the economy.

Morano also says the environmental movement will never stop.

“They are all in on this.  They are going to keep pushing and they have an agenda.  And if global warming were to fade, they would replace it with another environmental scare at some point, with the same solutions,” said Morano.

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