All of this can be tied back into the realization by Republicans long ago that if one controls the courts, one controls the true power in this country. That's how they've acquired a hammerlock on the Supreme Court as well as many of the Circuit Courts. So, when RAGA intervenes in lawsuits, it is doing so before what it already knows will be a sympathetic audience.
us users of fossi fuels are the guilty ones. We are the demand behind the supply chain. Pointing the finger ONLY on the supply end makes one blind to the truth.
Don't shut your eyes...electrify your home and transportation. Advocate for more charging stations and the grid getting more green as time passes from fossil fuels to wind and solar and hydro and geothermal
But not nuclear cause we don't know where to store all those very radioactive rods and cooling water.
Green energy is NOT wasteful. Solar panels on ones roof have a longer live than a Nuclear power plant. Solar panels can last 50 years or more before needing replacing. We got 10 decommisioned nuclear power plants with another 20 going off line soon. These plants lasted about 40 years before being shut down because of safety issues. The nuclear spent rods are being stored on site cause no one knows where to store nucear waste that has a half life of thousands of years. No state wants to be the depository of our nuclear waste. The low radioactive cooling water waste is also being stored on site. Where to put it. The industry wants to dump it into our oceans. Millions of gallons of low radioactive compounds circulation into our oceans into our fish and than into us.
Off shore wind energy here off th coast of New England can produce green energy 24/7/12. Constant wind of about 8 to 15 mph of the NE coast.
Fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidized. In a 2022 report global fossil fuel subsidies doubled from the previous year to an all-time high of 1 trillion USD.
Nuclear is not clean as it produced tons of high and low levels of radioactive very harmful waste. It is not stable. Nothing stable about rdioactive isotopes. Wind is stable and constant off the NE shore. Solar is as stable as sunshine and the sun made us and will be doing so for houdreds of thousdands of years. Thermal is as stable as earths core. Hydro is stable in areas od the USA where rain fall is constant heavy.
Fossil fuels need to be shipped to sites for usage. Green is produced locally and used locally. Finally adressing the inpact of Fossil Fuels on our environment. Nigel where have you been the past few decades. CO2 emmisions caused by burning of fossil fuels is killing our planet. It the cause of your every increasing insurance costs, the price of the foods you buy, the health of the air we breath and the water we consume.
Sea rise is raising havic on every shore around the world.
We need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and go green Nigel. For us for our kids and for our kids kids. For all living life forms....we need to go green.
Wow … you have become so misinformed by the propaganda and are way out of date.. I feel sorry for you, and the only good news is that you are fast joining the minority, as many people are waking up to the reality of the climate emergency scam. Our new western governments once voted in will adjust the crazy policies going forward.
I will direct you to some material that I hope you will review but here is a summary..
First CO2 is not a pollutant and is now proven to not be a driver of climate change and we don’t need CO2 and fossil fuel mitigation and we need to expand the use as long as we make Fossil fuels as clean as possible. Yes we will need some focused adaption to a naturally warming planet and this will definitely need the power of fossil fuels to undertake whatever adaption is needed.
Wind and solar is not a reliable solution for the main energy grid although it does have some off grid applications and certainly wont support industrial activity. Ask the Germans how they managed with W&S after spending almost all their wealth on it with no results and massive increases in energy costs. Plus W&S and EVs is far more harmful to the environment than the latest fossil technologies. The raw material extraction alone precludes W&S from being a viable wide scale energy source.
You need to get updated on the nuclear solution as its now being embraced by both western and emerging nations as a highly viable base load solution for a modern and much need reliable energy grid. Its being bad mouthed by so called environmental activists for no reason... more on this if you want..
Also you must realize that fossil fuels are needed for many other requirements outside of just electrical energy and without it we will have an economy more like the 1900s. You wont get the population to embrace that so just stop trying especially when is grossly unnecessary, irresponsible and foolish.
Further the emerging economies are forging ahead without the nonsense our policies are creating and they will get stronger and we in the west will get weaker due to our rank stupidity.
We cannot, and don’t have to, afford such wasteful technologies as EVs, wind and solar. All of the proposed energy technologies outside of those derived from oil and gas just don’t cut it in terms of output, reliability portability and cost unless significantly subsidized.
The comment about nuclear is way off the mark, as it’s the cleanest, safest, and at the next-gen the least cost for static grid energy… it’s the only technology that has the least impact on the environment with plenty of info to support that.
I've tried to be a little more hopeful about things but the situation of the courts and their ultra conservative bent, particularly the Supreme Court, is something that I feel hopeless about honestly.
The most important part of climate action imo, is time. And even if all these cases don't reach the Supreme Court to get a final judgment, all these AGs and all these lower circuit Federal judges, like the 5th, will do everything they can to slow any climate action. And in fact I think suing over something like the most mundane rule changes is part of that strategy to add case loads so it is a domino effect of delaying everything.
Also I don't know how to fully explain it myself, but I wish there was some way of conveying that this isn't just an issue of company likes to make money, then funds efforts to protect them making money. But an actual conservative ideological battle that would be happening regardless of money. Of course the funds help facilitate that battle, but I don't agree it is a "partisan use of the rule of law". They probably think we are partisan. It is an entire political movement with deeply held beliefs being used to the fullest extent that our system allows, or even breaking it.
With the stakes they are, I'm doing the same thing (not breaking the law of course)
I'm not criticizing any of the writing here because I don't know the right words myself, and I know you both agree, but I feel like understanding the ideological battle here helps me and maybe others.
The coverage of the funding and the players and groups involved is still excellent though, so thank you both for this piece. Deep appreciation for that!
Life for Americans is chasing that almighty dollar. It is ingrained into the American DNA now. Those that make it above a certain threshold of money and power become hooked on the perks of being rich. Like and addiction. Once they are addicted, very few get sober. This is what will bring about the death of the United States and the rest of the modern world. Unfettered capitalism is a disease of the mind. Since humans are unable to control their most base urges, they will destroy everything in their path to scratch this itch and take the rest of us with them, whether we want to go or not. Those of us who see this can fight all we want (and I will) but they are too many and we are nowhere near enough to stem the tide of destruction. I plan to fight until I can't anymore but I am one of the few.
I like trees….. yes…you can hug them, pick the fruit on some of them, make furniture and shelter out of them, and you can cut them down and burn them to keep warm and cook with, and we will be doing a heck of a lot more of the last thing if these climate panic types get their way!
You can take your investments in the fossil fuel industry and laugh all the way to the bank. You loyalty to this industry is sociopathic. Of
those of you that see the big picture PLEASE advocate change and champaign moving away from fossil fuels and move slowly but steadily towards greener forms of energy. Let's try to keep as much fossil fuels in the ground as we can moving forward.
Earh day is coming up...Earth needs our support keeping her inhabitants save from the pending threat of a mass extintion event. Burning fossil fuels will eventually burn us all.
Its very understandable ...... as the bulk of the population has been conditioned to conform to the Climate change emergency religion. It generates a feeling of self righteousness and a sense of common solidarity toward a well marketed common threat even if the facts don’t support that position.
Unfortunately, in scientific terms it’s a natural change in climate that at worst (even if we are the cause which many dispute) will only require a small amount of localized adaption not a massive mitigation that will shift our prosperity downward.
Its now very clear that the only thing that will reverse or neutralize this climate religion is the much higher religion of national prosperity and the sin of poverty which is now approaching fast in the western world.. So now many politicians are beginning to realize that a growing number in the population do not want to take the penance of climate change mitigation and will not follow the climate emergency religion anymore. This true realism and the new ability to listen to the science will correct the social crime of climate panic that has been propagated by the UN to gain control of the nations.
There is so much new reporting going on in this article that it almost short-circuits any possible response, let alone action. I posted a LinkedIn comment the other day praising New York's Attorney General Letitia Jones, saying how her office stands in complete contrast to all the other attorney generals across America that I checked out a few months ago.
It is ridiculous to criticize such brilliant reporting, but my criticism is that we are rounding up the usual suspects, and this brilliant reporting is not going to reach the people who most need this information.
In Massachusetts, former Attorney General, now governor, is conducting a show trial against the fossil fuel industry, that is every bit as corrupt as the Republican versions described here, and we would learn so much more, and have a much greater chance of triggering action, if we exposed that corruption. It's a dead end to say that Republican governors and AG's are blocking climate action. Corrupt Democrats are doing the same and being hailed for climate action. Shame on us.
The corporate conservatives have been very successful at these convoluted legalistic framings to avoid dealing with underlying causes of environmental degradation. "Originalism," "textualism," etc. Whether it goes through RAGA or the Federalist society or other paths to, in Leah Stoke's apt words "short-circuit policy." But somehow they get these AGs elected.
On the other hand, even if the Supreme Court somehow ruled that Honolulu has a right to climate damage awards, would that just become like the Supremes declaring a right to abortion. And 40 years of political battle and eventual backtracking?
Its fair that big oil should defend itself from these climate panic crazies..
First, its now clear that CO2 is NOT a driver of climate change with everyday more scientific evidence emerging that declares that the IPCC models are wrong, and that CO2 it is not a significant driver, and that the planet is warming naturally.
Also, more CO2 is actually a good thing as its greening the planet.
Second, the oil and gas industry is essential for many years to come for the wealth and stability of our economies, so this is why governments support these resource based sectors.
The only people that will benefit for this nonsense are the lawyers.
A troll is a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post... I am using facts and providing a comment to get to the truth in a reasonable manner ... so either engage or avoid and get over it...
All of this can be tied back into the realization by Republicans long ago that if one controls the courts, one controls the true power in this country. That's how they've acquired a hammerlock on the Supreme Court as well as many of the Circuit Courts. So, when RAGA intervenes in lawsuits, it is doing so before what it already knows will be a sympathetic audience.
I would say its more a sport followed by the demos judging by the nonsense Trump is going thro.
us users of fossi fuels are the guilty ones. We are the demand behind the supply chain. Pointing the finger ONLY on the supply end makes one blind to the truth.
Then shut your eyes and Drill baby drill :-)
Don't shut your eyes...electrify your home and transportation. Advocate for more charging stations and the grid getting more green as time passes from fossil fuels to wind and solar and hydro and geothermal
But not nuclear cause we don't know where to store all those very radioactive rods and cooling water.
wrong wrong wrong Nigel . Let us count the ways:
Green energy is NOT wasteful. Solar panels on ones roof have a longer live than a Nuclear power plant. Solar panels can last 50 years or more before needing replacing. We got 10 decommisioned nuclear power plants with another 20 going off line soon. These plants lasted about 40 years before being shut down because of safety issues. The nuclear spent rods are being stored on site cause no one knows where to store nucear waste that has a half life of thousands of years. No state wants to be the depository of our nuclear waste. The low radioactive cooling water waste is also being stored on site. Where to put it. The industry wants to dump it into our oceans. Millions of gallons of low radioactive compounds circulation into our oceans into our fish and than into us.
Off shore wind energy here off th coast of New England can produce green energy 24/7/12. Constant wind of about 8 to 15 mph of the NE coast.
Fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidized. In a 2022 report global fossil fuel subsidies doubled from the previous year to an all-time high of 1 trillion USD.
Nuclear is not clean as it produced tons of high and low levels of radioactive very harmful waste. It is not stable. Nothing stable about rdioactive isotopes. Wind is stable and constant off the NE shore. Solar is as stable as sunshine and the sun made us and will be doing so for houdreds of thousdands of years. Thermal is as stable as earths core. Hydro is stable in areas od the USA where rain fall is constant heavy.
Fossil fuels need to be shipped to sites for usage. Green is produced locally and used locally. Finally adressing the inpact of Fossil Fuels on our environment. Nigel where have you been the past few decades. CO2 emmisions caused by burning of fossil fuels is killing our planet. It the cause of your every increasing insurance costs, the price of the foods you buy, the health of the air we breath and the water we consume.
Sea rise is raising havic on every shore around the world.
We need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and go green Nigel. For us for our kids and for our kids kids. For all living life forms....we need to go green.
Wow … you have become so misinformed by the propaganda and are way out of date.. I feel sorry for you, and the only good news is that you are fast joining the minority, as many people are waking up to the reality of the climate emergency scam. Our new western governments once voted in will adjust the crazy policies going forward.
I will direct you to some material that I hope you will review but here is a summary..
First CO2 is not a pollutant and is now proven to not be a driver of climate change and we don’t need CO2 and fossil fuel mitigation and we need to expand the use as long as we make Fossil fuels as clean as possible. Yes we will need some focused adaption to a naturally warming planet and this will definitely need the power of fossil fuels to undertake whatever adaption is needed.
Wind and solar is not a reliable solution for the main energy grid although it does have some off grid applications and certainly wont support industrial activity. Ask the Germans how they managed with W&S after spending almost all their wealth on it with no results and massive increases in energy costs. Plus W&S and EVs is far more harmful to the environment than the latest fossil technologies. The raw material extraction alone precludes W&S from being a viable wide scale energy source.
You need to get updated on the nuclear solution as its now being embraced by both western and emerging nations as a highly viable base load solution for a modern and much need reliable energy grid. Its being bad mouthed by so called environmental activists for no reason... more on this if you want..
Also you must realize that fossil fuels are needed for many other requirements outside of just electrical energy and without it we will have an economy more like the 1900s. You wont get the population to embrace that so just stop trying especially when is grossly unnecessary, irresponsible and foolish.
Further the emerging economies are forging ahead without the nonsense our policies are creating and they will get stronger and we in the west will get weaker due to our rank stupidity.
Here is some material..
https://www.brainzmagazine.com/post/take-back-manufacturing-climate-realism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Ut3cjENZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRfQzMgvfDA
O so naive and misinformed. …
We cannot, and don’t have to, afford such wasteful technologies as EVs, wind and solar. All of the proposed energy technologies outside of those derived from oil and gas just don’t cut it in terms of output, reliability portability and cost unless significantly subsidized.
The comment about nuclear is way off the mark, as it’s the cleanest, safest, and at the next-gen the least cost for static grid energy… it’s the only technology that has the least impact on the environment with plenty of info to support that.
I've tried to be a little more hopeful about things but the situation of the courts and their ultra conservative bent, particularly the Supreme Court, is something that I feel hopeless about honestly.
The most important part of climate action imo, is time. And even if all these cases don't reach the Supreme Court to get a final judgment, all these AGs and all these lower circuit Federal judges, like the 5th, will do everything they can to slow any climate action. And in fact I think suing over something like the most mundane rule changes is part of that strategy to add case loads so it is a domino effect of delaying everything.
Also I don't know how to fully explain it myself, but I wish there was some way of conveying that this isn't just an issue of company likes to make money, then funds efforts to protect them making money. But an actual conservative ideological battle that would be happening regardless of money. Of course the funds help facilitate that battle, but I don't agree it is a "partisan use of the rule of law". They probably think we are partisan. It is an entire political movement with deeply held beliefs being used to the fullest extent that our system allows, or even breaking it.
With the stakes they are, I'm doing the same thing (not breaking the law of course)
I'm not criticizing any of the writing here because I don't know the right words myself, and I know you both agree, but I feel like understanding the ideological battle here helps me and maybe others.
The coverage of the funding and the players and groups involved is still excellent though, so thank you both for this piece. Deep appreciation for that!
Life for Americans is chasing that almighty dollar. It is ingrained into the American DNA now. Those that make it above a certain threshold of money and power become hooked on the perks of being rich. Like and addiction. Once they are addicted, very few get sober. This is what will bring about the death of the United States and the rest of the modern world. Unfettered capitalism is a disease of the mind. Since humans are unable to control their most base urges, they will destroy everything in their path to scratch this itch and take the rest of us with them, whether we want to go or not. Those of us who see this can fight all we want (and I will) but they are too many and we are nowhere near enough to stem the tide of destruction. I plan to fight until I can't anymore but I am one of the few.
For sure I enjoy huging trees..don't you. Nothing more spiritual than a walk thru a quiet wood to realize our connectiveness to our fragile planet.
I like trees….. yes…you can hug them, pick the fruit on some of them, make furniture and shelter out of them, and you can cut them down and burn them to keep warm and cook with, and we will be doing a heck of a lot more of the last thing if these climate panic types get their way!
You can take your investments in the fossil fuel industry and laugh all the way to the bank. You loyalty to this industry is sociopathic. Of
those of you that see the big picture PLEASE advocate change and champaign moving away from fossil fuels and move slowly but steadily towards greener forms of energy. Let's try to keep as much fossil fuels in the ground as we can moving forward.
Earh day is coming up...Earth needs our support keeping her inhabitants save from the pending threat of a mass extintion event. Burning fossil fuels will eventually burn us all.
Interesting that no one likes what Nigel has to say.
Its very understandable ...... as the bulk of the population has been conditioned to conform to the Climate change emergency religion. It generates a feeling of self righteousness and a sense of common solidarity toward a well marketed common threat even if the facts don’t support that position.
Unfortunately, in scientific terms it’s a natural change in climate that at worst (even if we are the cause which many dispute) will only require a small amount of localized adaption not a massive mitigation that will shift our prosperity downward.
Its now very clear that the only thing that will reverse or neutralize this climate religion is the much higher religion of national prosperity and the sin of poverty which is now approaching fast in the western world.. So now many politicians are beginning to realize that a growing number in the population do not want to take the penance of climate change mitigation and will not follow the climate emergency religion anymore. This true realism and the new ability to listen to the science will correct the social crime of climate panic that has been propagated by the UN to gain control of the nations.
Excellent reporting. Thanks for keeping on top of this horrific corruption. They’re stealing our children’s future in the name of greed. For the podcast inclined, this is a brilliant series about Leonard Leo and how he rose to be such an evil puppet master. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-we-dont-talk-about-leonard-episode-1
There is so much new reporting going on in this article that it almost short-circuits any possible response, let alone action. I posted a LinkedIn comment the other day praising New York's Attorney General Letitia Jones, saying how her office stands in complete contrast to all the other attorney generals across America that I checked out a few months ago.
It is ridiculous to criticize such brilliant reporting, but my criticism is that we are rounding up the usual suspects, and this brilliant reporting is not going to reach the people who most need this information.
In Massachusetts, former Attorney General, now governor, is conducting a show trial against the fossil fuel industry, that is every bit as corrupt as the Republican versions described here, and we would learn so much more, and have a much greater chance of triggering action, if we exposed that corruption. It's a dead end to say that Republican governors and AG's are blocking climate action. Corrupt Democrats are doing the same and being hailed for climate action. Shame on us.
The corporate conservatives have been very successful at these convoluted legalistic framings to avoid dealing with underlying causes of environmental degradation. "Originalism," "textualism," etc. Whether it goes through RAGA or the Federalist society or other paths to, in Leah Stoke's apt words "short-circuit policy." But somehow they get these AGs elected.
On the other hand, even if the Supreme Court somehow ruled that Honolulu has a right to climate damage awards, would that just become like the Supremes declaring a right to abortion. And 40 years of political battle and eventual backtracking?
you be the type that sings:
drill baby drill drill baby drill
cut them forests cut them forests
it's all good
I be the type that sings;
keep fossil fuels in the ground
protect our environment and trees
Green energy is good
Its fair that big oil should defend itself from these climate panic crazies..
First, its now clear that CO2 is NOT a driver of climate change with everyday more scientific evidence emerging that declares that the IPCC models are wrong, and that CO2 it is not a significant driver, and that the planet is warming naturally.
Also, more CO2 is actually a good thing as its greening the planet.
Second, the oil and gas industry is essential for many years to come for the wealth and stability of our economies, so this is why governments support these resource based sectors.
The only people that will benefit for this nonsense are the lawyers.
Please go troll somewhere else.
A troll is a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post... I am using facts and providing a comment to get to the truth in a reasonable manner ... so either engage or avoid and get over it...