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. In 2009 the South-Eastern Legal Foundation awarded Congressman John Linder and Lord Monckton jointly the Meese-Noble Award for Freedom for their work on climate change. In 2013 the Army Intelligence School of Colombia awarded Lord Monckton its Intelligence Medal for his work on climate change

Southeastern Legal Foundation's about page [1] states: "Founded in 1976, Southeastern Legal Foundation is celebrating its 34th year as an national constitutional public interest law firm and policy center that advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and the free enterprise system in the courts of law and public opinion"

"Mission and Goals: Southeastern Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm which advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and the free enterprise system. We look for cases in which our involvement can make a difference, not just to the parties involved, but also on the policies or issues that are in dispute."

Campaigns

EPA Global Warming Lawsuit

The SLF lists its partners[2] in the lawsuit as the Science & Public Policy Institute, the Foundation for Fair Civil Justice, and then lists "like-minded organizations that have been studying and publicizing the various facets of the 'global warming' controversy," including Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute, and the Independent Women’s Forum.

The lawsuit seeks to overturn the EPA's ability to regulate carbon dioxide, a precedent set in the case :{Massachusetts vs. the EPA:(style="background-color:#fff200;"):}:.

Clinton Impeachment

The SLF EPA Lawsuit says [3]"SLF attorneys filed the initial complaint with the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, seeking disciplinary measures for lying under oath and obstructing justice in a federal trial. SLF litigated the matter before the Arkansas Supreme Court, which unanimously held that disciplinary proceedings must proceed. SLF efforts resulted in President Clinton surrendering his law license while in office, later affirmed as disbarment in the U.S. Supreme Court."

McCain-Feingold

SLF worked with :{**Kenneth Starr**:(style="background-color:#fff200;"):}: to challenge the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. [4]

Personnel

Presidents
Board

Funding

SLF has received a total of $2,000,000 from :{Scaife :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:Family Foundations between 1987 and 2007. [7]

Corporations for the Constitution reports that "In 2002 SELF reported revenues of $2,536,899 and expenses of $2,020,687. they had assets of $1.5 million and liabilities of under $400,000. Major support comes from the Carthage Foundation ($125,000 in 2002),Castle Rock Foundation($50,000 in 2002), Sarah Scaife Foundation ($50,000 in 2002) and the Bradley Foundation,John M. Olin Foundation. Corporate grantmakers include ExxonMobil ($63,000 in 1998), Winn-Dixie Stores ($5,000 in 1996), Alcoa and Duke Power."[8]

Contact Details

Southeastern Legal Foundation

2255 Sewell Mill Road, Suite 320

Marietta, Georgia 30062-7218

Phone 770.977.2131, Fax 770.977.2134

Toll-Free: 800-474-8313

jayers@southeasternlegal.org

References

  1. ↑ Southeaster Legal Foundation, "SLF about page" Accessed June 2010.
  2. ↑ EPA Lawsuit Website[1] Accessed June 2010.
  3. ↑ Southeastern Legal Foundation, "SLF about page" Accessed June 2010.
  4. ↑ Southeastern Legal Foundation "SLF News Desk" Accessed June 2010.
  5. ↑ Jack Nichols "Tiptoe Through The Tearooms: The Glory Hole Days of Matthew Glavin""Greenwich Village Gazette", Oct 13, 2000.
  6. ↑ LinkedIn Profile"LinkedIn for Phil Kent,accessed June 2010.
  7. ↑ Media Matters Media Matters Transparency
  8. ↑ Corporate PolicyCorporatePolicy.orgAccessed June 2010.

Category: Climate change

Southeastern Legal Foundation is a constitutional public interest law firm and policy center founded in Atlanta, Georgiain 1976. The Foundation advocates constitutional liberties, free enterprise, and limited government in the courts of law and public opinion. The Foundation has litigated more than two dozen times in the Supreme Court of the United States.

For more information, visitwww.southeasternlegal.org.

American Justice Partnership

The American Justice Partnership is a national nonprofit coalition of leading corporations, think tanks, foundations, trade associations, individuals and organizations advocating for legal reform at the state level. AJP is an affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers.

For more information, visit www.AmericanJusticePartnership.org.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/06/the-glue-that-connects-jeffrey-clark-john-eastman-ginni-thomas-and-the-guy-who-was-air-dropped-into-the-doj-is-charles-kochs-money/

in September 1999 the U.S. Department of Justice filed racketeering charges against the major tobacco companies and two of their front groups. The court filings in that case carefully pieced together a half century of conspiratorial conduct and lies that gravely harmed the health of the American people, while lining the pockets of the tobacco industry, its lawyers and its paid shills.

The January 6 Select House Committee has that same, once-in-a-lifetime power in its hands. But that window of opportunity will close soon. The January 6 Committee can connect all the dots of the attempted coup leading to the doorstep of Charles Koch and expose his four decades of establishing front groups to shill for the fossil fuels industry and anti-climate change groups, or it can present a false and narrow view that this was all about the ego and narcissism of Donald Trump.

Charles Koch is the Chairman and CEO of one of the largest private companies in the world, Koch Industries, a fossil fuels and chemicals conglomerate that has been a serial polluter of the air and water for decades. According to Forbes, Koch has a net worth of $59.8 billion, making him the 17th richest man in the world. Charles Koch, and his late brother, David, functioned as backroom party bosses, behind the veil of a sprawling network of tax-exempt front groups, for 40 years.

Wall Street On Paradehas already produced the evidence tying the groups involved in the planning of the January 6 event to Charles Koch. See our report: The Money Trail to the Siege at the Capitol Leads to Charles Koch and Koch Industries.

We have already written about how the Trump administration was staffed up with Koch-related people and took its marching orders from a Koch-related entity, Freedom Partners.

There is also documented evidence that the Koch network engaged in a multi-faceted strategy to discourage progressives and liberals from turning out in the 2016 presidential election, thus tipping the victory to Trump. Not only did the Koch network fund Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners Action Fund ads portraying Democrats as tax and spend bureaucrats but the Koch-controlled i360 voter database and voter-targeting operations may have demoralized the progressive base from turning out while those same operations spurred Republicans to the polls.

And, today, we will show how key collaborators in the attempted coup on January 6 – Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Ginni Thomas, Cleta Mitchell, and Kenneth Klukowski – the attorney who was air-dropped into the U.S. Department of Justice just 35 days before the end of Trump’s term – all have ties to front groups funded by Charles Koch or his related nonprofits.

Let’s start withJeffrey Clark, the environmental lawyer at the Department of Justice with no criminal experience that Trump wanted to name U.S. Attorney General because he was willing to go all-in with the attempted coup. After the failed coup, Clark was out of a job at the Department of Justice. He was, in short order, named Chief of Litigation and Director of Strategy at a group called the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA). That’s a curious hire for someone likely facing a long criminal investigation and possible conviction.

NCLA has received millions of dollars from Charles Koch related entities. The Charles G. Koch Foundation gave NCLA $1 million in 2017, $1 million again in 2018, and $1 million again in 2019 for “general operating support,” according to its publicly-available 990 tax filings with the IRS. The Charles Koch Institute gave NCLA $1 million in 2020. Donors Trust, a dark money nonprofit with Charles Koch’s fingerprints all over it, gave NCLA more than $2 million from 2018 through 2020, according to its 990 filings.

In addition to needing a job after the failed coup attempt, Jeffrey Clark needed a plugged-in attorney. Somehow, he found his way to Harry MacDougald, a Managing Partner at Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & DeLoach. The fossil fuels industry watchdog, DeSmog, describes MacDougald as follows:

“MacDougald was part of the legal team that worked with the Southeastern Legal Foundation to challenge the EPA‘s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases. In its lawsuit against the EPA, Southeastern Legal identified its allies in theeffort as ‘like-minded organizations’ including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and the Independent Women’s Forum, among others.”

DeSmog notes that MacDougald spoke at the Heartland Institute’s “America First Energy Conference” in New Orleans in 2018. The Heartland Institute is a climate science denier that has received more than $26 million from two Koch-related groups, Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust, according to the Conservative Transparency Project using publicly available 990 IRS tax filings. The conference was promoted as follows:

“The purpose of this event is to promote and expand energy freedom in the United States, as outlined inPresident Donald Trump’s bold America First Energy Plan,a proposal first released during the 2016 presidential campaign. The president’s plan marks a decisive change in direction from the Obama administration’s ‘war on fossil fuels’…”

Two of the allied groups mentioned above, the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation, have long histories with Koch money.Charles Koch and his late brother, David, were actually secret owners of the Cato Institute for decades. Greenpeace has called the Heritage Foundation “Koch Industries’ Climate Denial Front Group” and reports that it has received $6,130,201 from Koch foundations from 1997 through 2017.

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was firing off all of those emails to Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, to press for the attempted coup, had previously received $1,051,214 in compensation from the Heritage Foundationover a number of years. Clarence Thomas failed to report that compensation on his financial disclosure forms at the Supreme Court, even though he was required to do so.

The ties between Ginni Thomas and another attempted coup collaborator, Cleta Mitchell, run deep – with all roads leading to Koch money. As we reported in March:....

Shannon Goessling

Biography

Shannon Goessling is a 1993 graduate of the Emory University School of Law and a 1990 graduate of Rollins College in Florida, where she studied public policy. Following law school, she was a staff prosecutor to three Atlanta-area district attorneys. After this role, she turned to private practice and took charge of a family home-remodeling business.

Goessling ran in 2002 for the office of Georgia:{ Attorney Genera:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:l on the issues of domestic violence, victims’ rights, and ethics among public officials. She won the Republican nomination but lost to the incumbent Democrat, garnering 45 percent of the vote in the general election. She has been the Southeastern Legal Foundation’s Executive Director since September 2004.

SHANNON GOESSLING

Shannon Goessling: :{Ice age threat should freeze EPA global warming regs:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:

Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 1:51 AM EDT

Co2sceptic (Site Admin)

Rather than spiraling into a global warming meltdown, we may be heading into the next ice age.

The U.S. National Solar Observatory, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and astrophysicists across the planet report that the nearly all-time low sunspot activity may result in a sustained cooling period on Earth.

The news has sent global warming theory advocates scrambling to discount and explain away the impact on global temperatures. However, the "news" is not really that new.

Many reputable scientists have been warning for decades that we are nearing the end of the 11,500-year average period between ice ages. And the last similar crash in sunspot activity coincided with the so-called "Little Ice Age" in the 1600s that lasted nearly a century.

Despite increasing evidence that "global warming" climate change is not the unified scientific theory it has been promoted to be, vested interests continue to push for stringent limits on carbon dioxide emissions

Certain investment banks and trading houses that stand to make billions on so-called "carbon credits," and the environmental sociologists who have as a stated purpose to change our way of life, are a powerful bloc.

In the Obama administration, this cabal has a willing "big stick" in the form the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has enacted draconian measures that will, by President Obama's admission, "make energy costs skyrocket."

The subject of intense litigation, the EPA regulations were enacted this year without congressional approval as required by the Clean Air Act and other laws. Estimates put the economic damage of these regulations at $1 trillion over the next 20 years, with a loss of between four and 10 million jobs.

Ironically, the current rush by global warming advocates to uncouple mounting evidence ofglobal cooling from the global warming regime is not the first time they've backpedaled.

As referenced in ongoing litigation, the EPA admitted that generally applicable regulations would lead to "absurd" results, leading the agency to create a so-called "Tailoring Rule."

For example, global warming alarmists admit by their own calculations that reducing carbon emissions among a sample of large U.S. "emitters" to EPA-required levels might reduce the surface temperature by .00071 degree Celsius -- or 70 times lower than what is detectable.

Annual emission reductions sought would be replaced in 13 days by industrial growth in China. "Absurd" is understatement. So how do we handle "global cooling?"

In the 1970s and '80s, climatologists and astrophysicists were setting off alarms about pending global cooling and "the new ice age." Headlines in major weekly news magazines warned of a cooling catastrophe, with experts like famed astronomer Carl Sagan calling on industrialized countries to produce more carbon dioxide to offset the pending disaster.

High-level scientific proposals were advanced to redirect Arctic rivers, clear out swaths of high-density forests to release carbon dioxide, and even salt the Greenland ice caps with black carbon to attract sun melting in a global effort to stave off the impending ice age.

What happens during a "Little Ice Age?" Food-producing land becomes scarcer, food-growing seasons become shorter, and the world becomes a much more arid and less hospitable place. Think food shortages and the social unrest that follows.

The forces at work behind the global warming regulatory regime have, at worst, covered up, ignored and manipulated climate evidence to make the case that humans cause global warming and therefore humans should be punished.

At best, the mainstream scientific community is continuing to weigh the climate data as it becomes available. Caught in the flux are millions of Americans suffering under an economic tsunami that is anything but a theory.

The textbook definition of moving forward with global warming regulations is truly "absurd."

Shannon Goessling is executive director and chief legal counsel for the Southeastern Legal Foundation.

Source Link:washingtonexaminer.com/

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native am climate change suit

 sue EPA on co2?

kivalina article

Kivalina:

Global warming litigation, described by a prominent trial lawyer as “the next tobacco and asbestos,” has taken a critically dangerous turn toward the unconstitutional. At stake are free speech, freedom of association, and the freedom to disagree. The targets are every corporation that offers public information on the environment, and every business organization, advocacy group, and individual who question the assumption that human activity causes global warming.

After several court dismissals in cases filed against energy companies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and against auto manufacturers, the plaintiffs’ bar is following the U.S. Marine maxim – “improvise, adapt and overcome.” The lawsuit filed by the Alaskan Eskimo village of Kivalina in late 2007 is the proving ground for the new plaintiffs’ lawyer tactic designed to intimidate, implicate, and ultimately silence public discussion and education on the high-profile issue of global warming....

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Amici curiae are the following scientists:

Dr. Timothy F. Ball

Professor, University of Winnipeg (retired),

Ph.D., Queen Mary College, University of London

M.A., University of Manitoba

B.A., University of Winnipeg

Joseph S. D’Aleo,

Certified Consultant Meteorologist,

American Meteorological Society Fellow

M.S., Meteorology, University of Wisconsin

B.S., Meteorology (cum laude), University of

Wisconsin

Dr. Don J. Easterbrook

Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western

Washington University

Ph.D., Geology, University of Washington, Seattle

M.S., Geology, University of Washington, Seattle

B.S., Geology, University of Washington, Seattle

Dr. Gordon J. Fulks

Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago

M.S., Physics, University of Chicago

B.S., Physics, University of Chicago

Dr. William M. Gray

Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science,

Colorado State University

Ph.D., Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

M.S., Meteorology, University of Chicago

3

B.S., Geography, George Washington University

Dr. William Happer

Professor of Physics, Princeton University

Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University

B.S., Physics, University of North Carolina

Dr. Anthony R. Lupo

IPCC Expert Reviewer

Professor, Atmospheric Science,

University of Missouri

Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Purdue University

M.S., Atmospheric Science, Purdue University

Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen

Ph.D., Physics, M.I.T.

B.S., Physics, M.I.T.

Dr. S. Fred Singer

Fellow AAAS, APS, AGU

Prof Emeritus of Environmental Sciences,

University of Virginia

Ph. D., Physics, Princeton University

BEE, Ohio State University

Dr. James P. Wallace III

Jim Wallace & Associates, LLC

Ph.D., Economics, Minor in Engineering,

Brown University

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brown University

B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Brown University

4

Dr. George T. Wolff

Former Chair EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory

Committee

Ph.D., Environmental Sciences,

Rutgers University

M.S., Meteorology, New York University

B.S., Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute

of Technology

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INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE1 Amici curiae are well-qualified climate scientists. Amici include respected professors and scientists who have worked for government agencies, universities, and businesses. These highly regarded scientists have expertise in a wide array of fields implicated by this rulemaking, including climate research, weather modeling, physics, geology, statistical analysis, and engineering. They have many publications in peerreviewed journals and are respected in their fields of expertise by their peers. Amici wish to present to this Court scientific data that bear directly on the underlying rulemaking. Specifically, amici submit that EPA’s finding of human-caused global warming is not supported by the evidentiary record that was before EPA. 1 Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 37.6, counsel for amici certifies that this brief was not authored in whole or in part by counsel for any party, and no person or entity other than amici or their counsel has made a monetary contribution to the preparation or submission of this brief. Pursuant to Rule 37.3(a), counsel of record for all parties received notice at least 10 days prior to the due date of the amici curiae’s intention to file this brief. All parties have consented to the filing of this brief. Those consents are being lodged herewith. Blanket consents are also already on file with the Clerk. 2 Amici curiae are the following scientists: Dr. Timothy F. Ball Professor, University of Winnipeg (retired), Ph.D., Queen Mary College, University of London M.A., University of Manitoba B.A., University of Winnipeg Joseph S. D’Aleo, Certified Consultant Meteorologist, American Meteorological Society Fellow M.S., Meteorology, University of Wisconsin B.S., Meteorology (cum laude), University of Wisconsin Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western Washington University Ph.D., Geology, University of Washington, Seattle M.S., Geology, University of Washington, Seattle B.S., Geology, University of Washington, Seattle Dr. Gordon J. Fulks Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago M.S., Physics, University of Chicago B.S., Physics, University of Chicago Dr. William M. Gray Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Ph.D., Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago M.S., Meteorology, University of Chicago 3 B.S., Geography, George Washington University Dr. William Happer Professor of Physics, Princeton University Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University B.S., Physics, University of North Carolina Dr. Anthony R. Lupo IPCC Expert Reviewer Professor, Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Purdue University M.S., Atmospheric Science, Purdue University Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen Ph.D., Physics, M.I.T. B.S., Physics, M.I.T. Dr. S. Fred Singer Fellow AAAS, APS, AGU Prof Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Ph. D., Physics, Princeton University BEE, Ohio State University Dr. James P. Wallace III Jim Wallace & Associates, LLC Ph.D., Economics, Minor in Engineering, Brown University M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brown University B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Brown University 4 Dr. George T. Wolff Former Chair EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University M.S., Meteorology, New York University B.S., Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT In the midst of an unsettled and vigorous international debate regarding the existence of purported global warming and the role—if any—of human-emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) in contributing to that alleged warming, EPA concluded with near absolute certainty that temperatures in the second half of the twentieth century were “unusually” high because of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. 74 Fed. Reg. 66518 (2009). That sweeping conclusion was a critical component of the EPA’s Endangerment Finding, and so was an impetus for the most significant and far-reaching regulatory program ever devised by a federal agency. Amici urge the Court to grant

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Southeastern Legal FoundationThe Southeastern Legal Foundation is a non-profit law firm which is closely affiliated with right-wing advocacy groups and global warming skeptics groups. It has pressured the Arkansas bar to suspend President Clinton's license to practice law,challenged the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act, and is currently challenging the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide.

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Background

Southeastern Legal Foundation's about page [1] states: "Founded in 1976, Southeastern Legal Foundation is celebrating its 34th year as an national constitutional public interest law firm and policy center that advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and the free enterprise system in the courts of law and public opinion"

"Mission and Goals: Southeastern Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm which advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and the free enterprise system. We look for cases in which our involvement can make a difference, not just to the parties involved, but also on the policies or issues that are in dispute."

Campaigns

EPA Global Warming Lawsuit

The SLF lists its partners[2] in the lawsuit as the Science & Public Policy Institute, the Foundation for Fair Civil Justice, and then lists "like-minded organizations that have been studying and publicizing the various facets of the 'global warming' controversy," including Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute, and the Independent Women’s Forum.

The lawsuit seeks to overturn the EPA's ability to regulate carbon dioxide, a precedent set in the case :{Massachusetts vs. the EPA:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:.

Clinton Impeachment

The SLF EPA Lawsuit says [3] "SLF attorneys filed the initial complaint with the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, seeking disciplinary measures for lying under oath and obstructing justice in a federal trial. SLF litigated the matter before the Arkansas Supreme Court, which unanimously held that disciplinary proceedings must proceed. SLF efforts resulted in President Clinton surrendering his law license while in office, later affirmed as disbarment in the U.S. Supreme Court."

McCain-Feingold

SLF worked with :{**Kenneth Starr**:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}: to challenge the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. [4]

Personell

Presidents
Board

Funding

SLF has received a total of $2,000,000 from :{Scaife :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:Family Foundations between 1987 and 2007. [7]

Corporations for the Constitution reports that "In 2002 SELF reported revenues of $2,536,899 and expenses of $2,020,687. they had assets of $1.5 million and liabilities of under $400,000. Major support comes from the Carthage Foundation ($125,000 in 2002), Castle Rock Foundation ($50,000 in 2002), Sarah Scaife Foundation ($50,000 in 2002) and the Bradley Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation. Corporate grantmakers include ExxonMobil ($63,000 in 1998), Winn-Dixie Stores ($5,000 in 1996), Alcoa and Duke Power." [8]

Contact Details

Southeastern Legal Foundation

2255 Sewell Mill Road, Suite 320

Marietta, Georgia 30062-7218

Phone 770.977.2131, Fax 770.977.2134

Toll-Free: 800-474-8313

jayers@southeasternlegal.org

References

  1. ↑ Southeaster Legal Foundation, "SLF about page" Accessed June 2010.
  2. ↑ EPA Lawsuit Website [1] Accessed June 2010.
  3. ↑ Southeastern Legal Foundation, "SLF about page" Accessed June 2010.
  4. ↑ Southeastern Legal Foundation "SLF News Desk" Accessed June 2010.
  5. ↑ Jack Nichols "Tiptoe Through The Tearooms: The Glory Hole Days of Matthew Glavin" "Greenwich Village Gazette", Oct 13, 2000.
  6. ↑ LinkedIn Profile "LinkedIn for Phil Kent, accessed June 2010.
  7. ↑ Media Matters Media Matters Transparency
  8. ↑ Corporate Policy CorporatePolicy.org Accessed June 2010.

Category: Climate change

Southeastern Legal Foundation is a constitutional public interest law firm and policy center founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1976. The Foundation advocates constitutional liberties, free enterprise, and limited government in the courts of law and public opinion. The Foundation has litigated more than two dozen times in the Supreme Court of the United States.

For more information, visit www.southeasternlegal.org.

American Justice Partnership

The American Justice Partnership is a national nonprofit coalition of leading corporations, think tanks, foundations, trade associations, individuals and organizations advocating for legal reform at the state level. AJP is an affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers.

For more information, visit www.AmericanJusticePartnership.org.

Shannon Goessling

Biography

Shannon Goessling is a 1993 graduate of the Emory University School of Law and a 1990 graduate of Rollins College in Florida, where she studied public policy. Following law school, she was a staff prosecutor to three Atlanta-area district attorneys. After this role, she turned to private practice and took charge of a family home-remodeling business.

Goessling ran in 2002 for the office of Georgia:{ Attorney Genera:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:l on the issues of domestic violence, victims’ rights, and ethics among public officials. She won the Republican nomination but lost to the incumbent Democrat, garnering 45 percent of the vote in the general election. She has been the Southeastern Legal Foundation’s Executive Director since September 2004.

SHANNON GOESSLING

Shannon Goessling: Ice age threat should freeze EPA global warming regs

Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 1:51 AM EDT

Co2sceptic (Site Admin)

Rather than spiraling into a global warming meltdown, we may be heading into the next ice age.

The U.S. National Solar Observatory, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and astrophysicists across the planet report that the nearly all-time low sunspot activity may result in a sustained cooling period on Earth.

The news has sent global warming theory advocates scrambling to discount and explain away the impact on global temperatures. However, the "news" is not really that new.

Many reputable scientists have been warning for decades that we are nearing the end of the 11,500-year average period between ice ages. And the last similar crash in sunspot activity coincided with the so-called "Little Ice Age" in the 1600s that lasted nearly a century.

Despite increasing evidence that "global warming" climate change is not the unified scientific theory it has been promoted to be, vested interests continue to push for stringent limits on carbon dioxide emissions

Certain investment banks and trading houses that stand to make billions on so-called "carbon credits," and the environmental sociologists who have as a stated purpose to change our way of life, are a powerful bloc.

In the Obama administration, this cabal has a willing "big stick" in the form the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has enacted draconian measures that will, by President Obama's admission, "make energy costs skyrocket."

The subject of intense litigation, the EPA regulations were enacted this year without congressional approval as required by the Clean Air Act and other laws. Estimates put the economic damage of these regulations at $1 trillion over the next 20 years, with a loss of between four and 10 million jobs.

Ironically, the current rush by global warming advocates to uncouple mounting evidence of global cooling from the global warming regime is not the first time they've backpedaled.

As referenced in ongoing litigation, the EPA admitted that generally applicable regulations would lead to "absurd" results, leading the agency to create a so-called "Tailoring Rule."

For example, global warming alarmists admit by their own calculations that reducing carbon emissions among a sample of large U.S. "emitters" to EPA-required levels might reduce the surface temperature by .00071 degree Celsius -- or 70 times lower than what is detectable.

Annual emission reductions sought would be replaced in 13 days by industrial growth in China. "Absurd" is understatement. So how do we handle "global cooling?"

In the 1970s and '80s, climatologists and astrophysicists were setting off alarms about pending global cooling and "the new ice age." Headlines in major weekly news magazines warned of a cooling catastrophe, with experts like famed astronomer Carl Sagan calling on industrialized countries to produce more carbon dioxide to offset the pending disaster.

High-level scientific proposals were advanced to redirect Arctic rivers, clear out swaths of high-density forests to release carbon dioxide, and even salt the Greenland ice caps with black carbon to attract sun melting in a global effort to stave off the impending ice age.

What happens during a "Little Ice Age?" Food-producing land becomes scarcer, food-growing seasons become shorter, and the world becomes a much more arid and less hospitable place. Think food shortages and the social unrest that follows.

The forces at work behind the global warming regulatory regime have, at worst, covered up, ignored and manipulated climate evidence to make the case that humans cause global warming and therefore humans should be punished.

At best, the mainstream scientific community is continuing to weigh the climate data as it becomes available. Caught in the flux are millions of Americans suffering under an economic tsunami that is anything but a theory.

The textbook definition of moving forward with global warming regulations is truly "absurd."

Shannon Goessling is executive director and chief legal counsel for the Southeastern Legal Foundation.

Source Link: washingtonexaminer.com/opinion

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