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Common Sense, Current Affairs, Liberal Logic, Man-made Climate Change Isn't Real 11.12.2019 No Comments
New York’s Stranded Exxon Case
A judge eviscerates the much ballyhooed climate-change suit.
PHOTO: CHONA KASINGER/BLOOMBERG NEWS Well, that was embarrassing. After spending nearly four years trying to nail Exxon Mobil for myriad climate-change deceptions, New York’s attorney general was excoriated Tuesday by a state judge for making “hyperbolic” claims and essentially trying to deceive the court.
In case readers missed it—and no doubt New York Attorney General Letitia James hopes you did—State Supreme Court Judge Barry Ostrager (appointed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo ) dismissed New York’s lawsuit alleging that Exxon violated the state’s Martin Act. That securities law merely requires that a “reasonable” investor might have been misled regardless of whether there was fraudulent intent, but the AG couldn’t even meet this low bar.
Former AG Eric Schneiderman started the legal excavation in 2015 aiming to show that Exxon concealed from the public what it knew about its climate harms. When discovery well after well ran dry, the AG’s office drilled into Exxon for projecting different carbon costs to investors than those it used internally for reviewing investments.
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Common Sense, Current Affairs, Liberal Logic, Man-made Climate Change Isn't Real 10.12.2019 No Comments
Until late 2006, global temperatures were more than a degree Fahrenheit warmer when compared to the 20th Century average. From August of 2007 through February of 2008, the Earth’s mean temperature dropped to near the 20th Century average of 57 degrees. Since that time, land and ocean readings have rebounded to the highest levels in recorded history in 2016 with a temperature of 58.69 degrees Fahrenheit. For 2017, the global temperature was 58.51 degrees Fahrenheit.
We, Climatologist Cliff Harris and Meteorologist Randy Mann, believe in rather frequent climate changes in our global weather patterns. Geologic evidence shows our climate has been changing over millions of years. The warming and cooling of global temperatures are likely the result of long-term climatic cycles, solar activity, sea-surface temperature patterns and more. However, Mankind’s activities of the burning of fossil fuels, massive deforestations, the replacing of grassy surfaces with asphalt and concrete, the “Urban Heat Island Effect” are likely creating more harmful pollution. Yes, we believe we should be “going green” whenever and wherever possible.
