green black death
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">new node 9/17 on breakthru</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see energy poverty</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">started as tinfoil ag 21 ? but has been percolating to lomborg and then stanley kurtz (pseudo-academic); also variant in the fed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">it's jiu jitsu mirror reverse crypto: the right really cares about poor ppl, not just corp shills or party ideologue robots</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">shillenberger does a variation w/ wood dung smoke cooking?</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8/20 i wonder if horner strays from agenda 21 to grn blk death, ebell cei does, so found: [this comes from p 10 (of _?}of archive of press release art'ls]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://eelegal.org/ee-legal-letters-issue-ix-ee%e2%80%88legal-releases-energy-poverty-video-for-papal-visit/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://eelegal.org/ee-legal-letters-issue-ix-ee%e2%80%88legal-releases-energy-poverty-video-for-papal-visit/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div style=""><div class="post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Pope Francis and other faith leaders have made addressing ‘climate change’ one of most important ‘moral’ issues of our time. During his historic visit to the United States in September, the Pope in an address to a joint session of Congress </b>said, “I call for a courageous and responsible effort to ‘redirect our steps’ and to avert the most serious effects of the environmental deterioration caused by human activity. I am convinced that we can make a difference, and I have no doubt that the United States — and this Congress — have an important role to play.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">E&E Legal firmly believes that humanity has a moral obligation to protect and preserve the environment. However, the Pope’s strategy to address ‘climate change’ – which is shared by many other faith leaders, extremists in the United Nations, and socialistic governments across Europe and the rest of the world – will only bring skyrocketing energy prices that have</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> already devastated and killed the most vulnerable in those countries who have employed such policies.</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To raise awareness of these failed and dangerous ‘climate’ policies,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqy7Lsolwpk&feature=youtu.be" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;"> E&E Legal released a revised version of an earlier video</a> prior to the Papal visit. As the video illustratress, these <b>policies demanded in the name of climate change — which policies no one claims will detectably impact the climate, and so which are now offered in the name of protecting the most vulnerable — are in fact already killing the most vulnerable, by the tens of thousands.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Headlines used in the video come from Europe, where President Obama used to tell Americans to look if they want to see how these policies will work yet whose experiences, curiously, he no longer wants us to examine. Yet we echo Mr. Obama’s now-abandoned call: look to Europe if you want to see the U.S.’s future should EPA’s </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“</span><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">global warming” rules be allowed to go into effect. Close examination reveals ugly truths.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This campaign to promote the environmentalists’ energy <b>agenda</b> turns morality on its head, and the public needs to know what, it seems, many advisers are apparently unwilling to let on. The evidence is clear and continued ignorance of the truth should no longer be tolerated, whether by the faithful being exhorted to lend their churches to this cause, or those who are moved by emotional, yet unsupportable appeals to change the climate or help the poor.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">E&E Legal Senior Fellow Chris Horner notes, “In no rational world does social justice mean killing seniors [death panel bs? trump utter covid fail, go hug grandma?] and the poor in the name of a political cause; it is only worse that this cause is </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">in the name of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">‘climate’ </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">when there is an actual consensus that these policies will have no impact on the climate.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"> However, it is truly</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> offensive </span><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">to promote it </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">in the name of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">the most vulnerable, who are the policies’ principal victims.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Headlines in newspapers of all stripes, left-wing groups and social service organizations cry out about the “scandal” of these many premature deaths. Unlike <b>computer-prophesied scenarios of the future, t</b>hese deaths are real, they are occurring now and they are dramatically increasing. They are a direct, disgraceful result of government policies in the name of a fashionable cause that we know cannot rationally be what it purports to be, given these policies have no projected climate impact.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We do know these policies and EPA’s imminent contribution will kill more of those in whose name the rules are now promoted. These terrible costs must spread no further, and instead it is time to roll the cruel ideological agenda back. Telling the truth about this agenda’s impacts is an overdue, important first step.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">E&E Legal has also made versions of its </span><a href="https://youtu.be/9zBiX1w2aiY" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">videos available for Poles</a><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">, whose government has indicated it can no longer bear these all-pain, no-gain policies, </span><a href="https://youtu.be/nv8m_jppiBI" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">and the French</a><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">. In December, </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">France will host the talks at which President Obama will agree to a new treaty — which he once again insists is not a treaty, to avoid the Senate having its say — replacing the failed Kyoto Protocol.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Kyoto</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, of course, went nowhere in the U.S. given that President Clinton acknowledged it was a treaty</span><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">. As with Iran, Mr. Obama is taking no such chances. This does not mean the public and their elected representatives are without a voice in these maters. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Congress must block EPA’s rules and demand a Senate vote on the upcoming Paris treaty.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><u>E&E Legal Executive Director Craig Richardson, <a href="https://eelegal.org/?p=3964" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">who authored an article</a> in June responding to the release of Pope Francis’ ‘climate change’ encyclical, concludes, “As a practicing Catholic</u></b><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">, I find it impossible to reconcile the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">policies advocated by Pope Francis in Laudato Si, which have had such a devastating impact on Europe’s most vulnerable</span><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">, and he and the Catholic Church’s longstanding commitment to the world’s poor and most marginalized. It is my hope that Pope Francis and other religious leaders will rethink their approach, recognize that <b>providing affordable, reliable energy sources is the most effective way of lifting the poor out of poverty, and understand that these failed ‘climate’ policies they espouse are clearly not the answer, in fact they’re the problem</b>.”</span></font></p></div><div class="fusion-meta-info" style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; overflow: hidden; margin-top: 20px; padding: 5px 0px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(224, 222, 222); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 222, 222); border-right-color: rgb(224, 222, 222); border-left-color: rgb(224, 222, 222);"><div class="fusion-meta-info-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">November 23rd, 2015</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 5px;">|</span><a href="https://eelegal.org/category/issues/climate-change-issues/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">"Climate Change"</a>, <a href="https://eelegal.org/category/ee-legal-news/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">E&E Legal Letters</a>, <a href="https://eelegal.org/category/issues/energy-poverty/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">Energy Poverty</a>, <a href="https://eelegal.org/category/personnel/horner/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">Horner</a>, <a href="https://eelegal.org/category/personnel/richardson/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: linear;">Richardson</a></font></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>G<span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.3 !important;">reen Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex</span> </b><span class="a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.255 !important;">Hardcover</span> <span class="a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.255 !important;">– October 3, 2017</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate change was political long before Al Gore first started talking about it. In the 1970s, the Swedish Social Democrats used global warming to get political support for building a string of nuclear power stations. It was the second phase of their war on coal, which began with the acid rain scare and the first big UN environment conference in Stockholm in 1969.<br style="" /><br style="" />Acid rain swept all before it. America held out for as long as Ronald Reagan was in the White House, but capitulated under his successor. Like global warming, acid rain had the vocal support of the scientific establishment, but the consensus science collapsed just as Congress was passing acid rain cap-and-trade legislation. Rather than tell legislators and the nation the truth, the EPA attacked a lead scientist and suppressed the federal report showing that the scientific case for action on curbing power station emissions was baseless.<br style="" /><br style="" />Ostensibly neutral in the Cold War, Sweden had a secret military alliance with Washington. A hero of the international Left, Sweden’s Olof Palme used environmentalism to maintain a precarious balance between East and West. Thus Stockholm was the conduit for the KGB-inspired nuclear winter scare. The bait was taken by Carl Sagan and leading scientists, who tried to undermine Ronald Reagan’s nuclear strategy and acted as propaganda tools to end the Cold War on Moscow’s terms.<br style="" /><br style="" />Nuclear energy was to have been the solution to global warming. It didn’t turn out that way, most of all thanks to Germany. Instead America and the world are following Germany’s lead in embracing wind and solar. German obsession with renewable energy originates deep within its culture. Few know today that the Nazis were the first political party to champion wind power, Hitler calling wind the energy of the future.<br style="" /><br style="" />Post-1945 West Germany appeared normal, but anti-nuclear protests in the 1970s led to the fusion of extreme Left and Right and the birth of the Greens in 1980. Their rise changed Germany, then Europe and now the world. Radical environmentalism became mainstream. It demands more than the rejection of the abundant hydrocarbon energy that fuels American greatness. It requires the suppression of dissent.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tyranny-Exposing-Totalitarian-Industrial/dp/1594039356"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tyranny-Exposing-Totalitarian-Industrial/dp/1594039356</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Hardcover: 352 pages; Publisher: Encounter <span style="font-weight: bold;">Books</span> (October 3, <span style="font-weight: bold;">2017</span>); Language: ... who were some of the first to propose <span style="font-weight: bold;">renewable</span> energy, who <span style="font-weight: bold;">wrote</span> about sun worship and<wbr /> ...</font></span></a></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KlwiZDyiBSkJ:https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tyranny-Exposing-Totalitarian-Industrial/dp/1594039356+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KlwiZDyiBSkJ:https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tyranny-Exposing-Totalitarian-Industrial/dp/1594039356%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiPxfX2srHmAhVKC6wKHf1YBDgQIDABegQIAxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></a></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KlwiZDyiBSkJ:https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tyranny-Exposing-Totalitarian-Industrial/dp/1594039356+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KlwiZDyiBSkJ:https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tyranny-Exposing-Totalitarian-Industrial/dp/1594039356%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiPxfX2srHmAhVKC6wKHf1YBDgQIDABegQIAxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see "truth squad"</font></a></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/12/11/cop25-climate-science-deniers-attend-behalf-trump-affiliated-lobby-group"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/12/11/cop25-climate-science-deniers-attend-behalf-trump-affiliated-lobby-group</font></a></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a <span class="caps">US</span> thinktank with close ties to <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> has obtained accreditation for a delegation of climate science deniers to the <span class="caps">UN</span> summit currently underway in Madrid.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Organisations accredited to attend on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received significant funding from oil giant ExxonMobil and the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch family</a>, include the <span class="caps">UK</span>’s <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/centre-policy-studies" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Centre for Policy Studies</a>, the Chicago-based <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a> and the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/european-institute-climate-and-energy" style="text-decoration-line: none;">European Institute for Climate and Energy</a>.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">World leaders are in Madrid, Spain for this year’s two-week <span class="caps">UN</span> climate talks, known as <span class="caps">COP25</span>. A <a href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/COP%2025_Provisional%20List%20of%20Participants.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">list</a> of delegates shows the <span class="caps">CEI</span> had obtained accreditation for eight individuals, many of whom are known for spreading climate science denial. The list is provisional, with a final list due to be released on Friday as the conference ends.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/william-happer" style="text-decoration-line: none;">William Happer</a>, a retired physics professor who left <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>’s National Security Council in September after <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061113085" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">failing</a> to persuade the <span class="caps">US</span> president to conduct a review of mainstream climate science, is also on the list of <span class="caps">CEI</span> delegates</span>. Happer directs a global network called the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/co2-coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="caps">CO2</span> Coalition</a>, which advocates for greater greenhouse gas emissions. In 2015, he was exposed offering to write a report on the benefits of carbon dioxide for a Middle Eastern oil company in an <a href="https://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academics-for-hire/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">undercover investigation</a> by Greenpeace.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Others accredited on behalf of the </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CEI</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> include </span><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rupert-darwall" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Rupert Darwall</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a critic of renewables who wrote a book in 2017 entitled</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> </span><em style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Green Tyranny:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex</span></em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Darwall is currently a Senior Fellow at the </span><a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/centre-policy-studies" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Centre for Policy Studies</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which is part of a network of pro-Brexit, libertarian think tanks and lobby groups based in and around </span><a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/55-tufton-street" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">55 Tufton Street</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in Westminster.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-watts" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Anthony Watts</b></a>, a former television meteorologist who founded the <em>Watts Up With That</em> climate science denial blog, is also listed as a <span class="caps">CEI</span> delegate, on behalf of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, along with <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/jim-lakely" style="text-decoration-line: none;">James Lakely</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-taylor" style="text-decoration-line: none;">James Taylor</a> and Keely Drukala.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wolfgang Mueller, General Secretary of the Germany-based <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/european-institute-climate-and-energy" style="text-decoration-line: none;">European Institute for Climate and Energy</a> (<span class="caps">EIKE</span>), a climate science denial group that has <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/afd-seeks-votes-by-opposing-climate-protection-a-1265494.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">worked closely</a> with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, and Samantha Mathew from the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (<span class="caps">CFACT</span>)</a>, are also on the <span class="caps">CEI</span> list. </font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is not the first time climate science deniers have attended a <span class="caps">COP</span> meeting as part of the <span class="caps">CEI</span> delegation.</b> In 2016, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/marc-morano" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Marc Morano</a>, Communications Director at <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="caps">CFACT</span></a> and Executive Director of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4621" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Climate Depot</a> website, attended the <span class="caps">COP22</span> Marrakech summit on a <span class="caps">CEI</span> badge and was <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/16/climate-science-deniers-representing-organisation-donald-trump-s-epa-pick-booted-un-cop22-talks" style="text-decoration-line: none;">kicked out</a> after pulling a media stunt about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Morano is also understood to be at the Madrid talks, where <span class="caps">CFACT</span> has been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191212142435/https://www.cfact.org/2019/12/11/gretas-person-of-the-year-but-her-climate-kids-are-emotional-and-vacuous-at-cop-25/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">handing out</a> a report with “skeptical talking points” to delegates. The “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191212142623/http://1ggye33lc4653z56mp34pl6t-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Climate-Talking-Points-Report-December-2019-Delivered-to-UN-Climate-Summit-in-Madrid_FINAL.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Climate Truth File 2020</a>” document, prepared by Morano, dismisses “global warming hype and hysteria” and claims there is a “lack of connection between higher levels of <span class="caps">CO2</span> and warming”. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="text-align: center;">No-one formally affiliated with the</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span class="caps" style="text-align: center;">CEI</span><span style="text-align: center;">, including</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a><span style="text-align: center;">, Director of Energy and Environment at the Chicago-based free-market think tank, is accredited to attend this year’s</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span class="caps" style="text-align: center;">COP</span><span style="text-align: center;">.</span></span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ebell was put in charge of Donald Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency, helping decide who staffed the agency once the President took office. He <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2017/01/30/climate-science-denying-gwpf-host-trump-s-fossil-fuelled-environment-advisor-myron-ebell-delivers-message-uk" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">told</a> a press conference hosted in 2012 by the <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/global-warming-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation (<span class="caps">GWPF</span>)</a>, the <span class="caps">UK</span>’s main climate science denial group, that Brexit presented an “opportunity” to get rid of unwanted <span class="caps">EU</span> environmental regulations.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span class="caps">CEI</span> did not respond to a request for comment.</font></font></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Counter climate summit</font></font></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opponents of action on climate change gathered in Madrid for what has become an annual event organised by the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, a <span class="caps">US</span> thinktank known for spreading climate science denial.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On the second day of the <span class="caps">COP</span>, Heartland <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191211122221/https:/www.heartland.org/multimedia/videos-climate-change/heartland-at-cop25---rebutting-the-climate-delusion-of-the-un-in-madrid" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hosted</a> a series of talks away from the official delegate area in an attempt to “rebut” what it describes as the <span class="caps">UN</span>’s “climate delusion”.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The afternoon included sessions on “The Renewable Power Nightmare in Europe” and “Wind and Solar Power: Expensive, Diffuse, Unreliable and Environmentally Damaging”.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Guus Berkhout, founder of the Netherlands-based Climate Intelligence Foundation (Clintel), gave a presentation about the group’s <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/09/06/climate-science-deniers-planning-coordinated-european-misinformation-campaign-leaked-documents-reveal" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“There is no Climate Emergency” campaign</a>, which claims that rising carbon dioxide levels are “beneficial for nature” and that climate change “has not increased natural disasters”.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since launching the initiative in September, Clintel has organised events across Europe, including one <a href="https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/11/26/tory-party-s-eu-group-hosts-climate-science-denial-group-days-meps-debate-climate-emergency" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hosted</a> last month by the <span class="caps">UK</span> Conservative Party’s political grouping in the European Parliament.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Christopher Monckton</a>, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher who often falsely styles himself as a Lord and was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/dec/07/doha-climate-talks-ukip-lord-monckton" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">banned</a> from the official climate talks in 2012 for impersonating a Burmese delegate, also spoke at the Heartland event.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/153359/seductive-stupidity-andrew-wheeler" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</div><div>The Seductive Stupidity of Andrew Wheeler</div><div>The EPA chief's latest argument against fighting climate change is astonishingly foolish-but it's exactly what most of us want to hear.</div><div>By EMILY ATKIN</div><div>March 20, 2019</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is not your average climate denier. Unlike President Donald Trump, he's admitted that global warming is real and caused by humans. And unlike many Republicans in the House and Senate, he's admitted that its effects will be dangerous if warming continues unabated.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But when it comes to admitting that swift, aggressive action is necessary to slow the dangers of climate change, Wheeler is just like most Republicans: He denies it. In an interview with "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday, the former coal industry lobbyist said that global warming is simply too vague and distant a threat to focus on.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"On the climate change issue, it is an important issue that we have to be addressing and we are addressing it," Wheeler said. "But most of the threats from climate change ar<b>e 50 to 75 years out." Instead of climate change, Wheeler argued that the EPA's efforts would be better spent focusing on cleaning up water in other countries. "We have 1,000 children die every day worldwide because they don't have safe drinking water," he said. "That's a crisis I think we can solve."</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>If humans didn't intend to keep living 50 to 75 years from now, Wheeler's argument might be a good one. But we do, making his argument exceedingly bad-as Twitter was kind enough to point out.</div><div>
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</div><div>Nick Knudsen ???? #DemCast</div><div>@DemWrite</div><div>New EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler's feeling on the urgency of climate change? </div><div>
</div><div>Meh. ??????? Why worry? The effects of climate change are still "50 To 75 Years Out". </div><div>
</div><div>Wonder how the kids feel about that perspective. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-wheeler-epa-climate-change_n_5c9226ede4b0dbf58e465554 …</div><div>
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</div><div>Wheeler's premise is also just plain wrong. "Most of the threats" from climate change are not far in the future; some really bad ones are happening right now.</div><div>
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</div><div>Dave Levitan</div><div>?</div><div>@davelevitan</div><div>EPA administrator Wheeler says the effects of climate change are "50 to 75 years out," which I'm sure is a huge comfort to checks notes enormous swaths of humanity?</div><div>
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</div><div>The EPA chief's claim that water pollution is a better focus because it's a crisis "we can solve" also falsely implies that climate change doesn't fall into that category. Last year, thousands of scientists from around the world put out a report saying humanity can prevent the worst climate impacts of the next 50 to 75 years-but only if we rapidly decarbonize the planet within about a dozen years. And even if we don't rapidly decarbonize within that time frame, we can still slow and prevent many terrible events by reducing emissions as quickly as we can.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The danger of Wheeler's comments, though, isn't that they're wrong or dumb. It's that they're extremely relatable. They represent everything the human brain wants to hear about climate change: that nothing that bad is currently happening; that anything truly awful will occur far down the road; and that we have plenty of time and space to prevent those horrific things from happening-even though the evidence tells us otherwise. "[Our] inability to deal with climate change is due in part to the way our mind is wired," reads a Time article from 2013, which outlines the psychological barriers to climate action.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Those psychological barriers have historically prevented much of the population from prioritizing global warming. And for the first time in a very long time, that's changing. As Robinson Meyer wrote in The Atlantic on Tuesday, America is experiencing "a potential upheaval in how important voters consider climate policy." That's inspired at least some Republicans stop denying the problem and start focusing on solutions, Meyer wrote.</div><div>
</div><div>Wheeler doesn't seem interested in solutions. So he's resorted to playing on the most powerful de-motivator we have: our brains.</div><div>
</div><div>Emily Atkin is a contributing editor to The New Republic and the author of the climate newsletter Heated.</div><div>@emorwee</div><div>Read MoreClimate Change, Politics, Psychology, Science, Environment, Andrew Wheeler, Environmental Protection Agency</div><div>=</div></div></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">guk ctt 1019</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">The director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Center for Energy and Environment, Myron Ebell, for example, told the Guardian: “CEI believes strongly that the policies being proposed by climate alarmists to deal with global warming pose much greater threats to human flourishing than do the effects of global warming.</b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> Abundant, affordable energy is a necessary condition of human wellbeing but the global energy-rationing policies being pursued, like those in the Paris climate treaty, threaten to consign billions of people around the world to energy poverty and perpetual economic stagnation.”</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>Comment: Of Course These Climate Science Deniers Jumped to Bolsonaro's Defence Over Amazon Fires</b></div><div>
</div><div>By Mike Small • Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 14:58</div><div>
</div><div>The burning of the Amazon rainforest has unified the public in shock and fear like no other event in recent times. It has become a symbol of where ecocide meets human suffering.</div><div>
</div><div>Dismay at the destruction has come from diverse voices ?— from world leaders meeting at the G7 to indigenous people directly affected. But even in this moment, a cabal of commentators tied to networks pushing climate science denial have used their platform to defend the destruction.</div><div>
</div><div>“Not since the dictatorship have we lived through such a tough moment,” Jaime Siqueira, the head of the Indigenous Work Centre (CTI), a Brazilian NGO supporting indigenous communities fighting to defend their lands, told the Guardian. Although Jair Bolsonaro’s hostility to indigenous rights is well-documented, the latest assault on the Amazon was not anticipated. Campaigners now believe that under Brazil’s new administration indigenous communities face their most severe threat since the 1970s.</div><div>
</div><div>Interesting then to hear Spiked’s People’s Champion Brendan O'Neill speaking up for destruction in an inevitable tirade, arguing: “Brazil is either a sovereign nation or it isn’t. If it is a sovereign nation, then it has every right to pursue economic growth as it sees fit. The rainforest belongs to Brazilians.”</div><div>
</div><div>But clearly not the sort of Brazilians like Jaime Siqueira.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In Spiked’s analysis there is no distinction between national reserves, indigenous land and communities and illegal logging: it's all just 'Brazil'.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In O’Neill’s analysis, the environmental catastrophe we face is either not happening at all or of secondary importance to the holy grail of economic development. Given the website is funded by the billionaire Koch industry empire, that’s perhaps no surprise.</span></div><div>
</div><div>And there were others cheerleading Bolsonaro's burning. Over at Conservative Woman, Kathy Gyngell cautions:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In the heat built up over this apparent climate catastrophe, few appear to have stopped to question the accuracy of the initial reporting or the meaning of the original Nasa pictures. <b>The Global Warming Policy Foundation, </b>however, have drawn our attention to a number of articles which suggest that the MSM may have been stoking the flames of panic.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>This is the same Global Warming Policy Foundation that was set up by Thatcher’s former chancellor Nigel Lawson to cast doubt on mainstream climate science at every turn. The same Global Warming Policy Foundation that was part of a coordinated effort to push for a regulatory bonfire courtesy of Brexit. And the same Global Warming Policy Foundation of which Gyngell is now a director (a fact she notably doesn’t disclose in her article).</div><div>
</div><div><b>Matt Ridley, another Global Warming Policy Foundation affiliate</b> (and another who does not declare his affiliation to the climate science denial campaign group), repeats <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">O'Neill's notion of the magic of economic development and growth in The Spectator.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He argues: “Getting people on to fossil fuels and away from burning wood for fuel spares trees. It is in the poorest countries, mainly in Africa, that men and women still gather firewood for cooking and bushmeat for food, instead of using electricity or gas and farmed meat.”</span> </div><div>
</div><div>From this observation he makes an impressive leap, arguing: “The trouble with the apocalyptic rhetoric is that it can seem to justify drastic but dangerous solutions. The obsession with climate change has slowed the decline of deforestation.”</div><div>
</div><div>Ridley does concede that “it is probably true that President Jair Bolsonaro’s rhetoric has encouraged those who want to resume logging and clearing forest and contributed to this year’s uptick in fires in the country.”</div><div>
</div><div>But, as befits his ideology, for Ridley the subject of blame should actually be (as usual) climate policy. In Ridley’s world, there is no climate crisis. There is no Amazon crisis. And if there was, it would be environmentalists’ fault anyway.</div><div>
</div><div>This is perhaps depressingly predictable, as the people arguing that we embrace such destruction are those that stand to profit from it ?— Ridley owns a coal mine, O’Neill's website is funded by the Kochs, and Gyngell sits on the board of a group whose raison d’etre is to persuade everyone that environmental regulation is entirely unnecessary.</div><div>
</div><div>All while the Amazon burns.</div><div>
</div><div>Mike Small is the Founder and Editor of Bella Caledonia. He was DeSmog UK's Deputy Editor from March to December 2018, and continues to contribute to the publication. </div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing popular resistance, and the efforts of government regulators have all shocked the energy industry. Oil prices are falling, colleges and universities are divesting from their carbon stocks, voters are instituting curbs on hydro-fracking, and delegates at the UNclimate conference in Peru have agreed to impose substantial restrictions on global carbon emissions at a conference in Paris later in the year.<b> All this has been accompanied by what might be viewed as a moral assault on the very act of extracting carbon-based fuels from the earth, in which the major oil, gas, and coal companies find themselves portrayed as the enemies of humankind.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under such pressures, you might assume that Big Energy would react defensively, perhaps apologizing for its role in spurring climate change while assuming a leadership position in planning for the transition to a post-carbon economy. But you would be wrong: instead of retreating, the major companies have gone on the offensive, extolling their contributions to human progress and minimizing the potential for renewables to replace fossil fuels in just about any imaginable future.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That the big carbon outfits would seek to perpetuate their privileged market position in the global economy is, of course, hardly surprising. After all, oil is the the most valuable commodity in international commerce and major producing firms like <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell regularly top lists of the world’s most profitable enterprises. Still, these companies are not just employing conventional legal and corporate tactics to protect their position, they’re mounting a moral assault of their own, <b>claiming that fossil fuels are an essential factor in eradicating poverty and achieving a decent life on this planet.</b></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Improbable as such claims may seem, they are being echoed by powerful officials around the world—typically, the leaders of carbon-producing nations like Russia and Saudi Arabia or the representatives of American energy-producing states like Texas and Kentucky. Count on one thing: this crew of fossil fuel enthusiasts is intent on ensuring that any path to a carbon-free future will, at best, be long and arduous. While you’re at it, add top Congressional leaders to this crew, since many of the Republican victors in the 2014 midterm election are from oil and coal-producing states and regularly laud carbon production for its contribution to local prosperity, while pocketing contributions by Big Oil and other energy firms.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unless directly challenged, this pro-carbon offensive—backed by copious Big Energy advertising—is likely to attract at least as much favor as the claims of anti-carbon activists. At this point, of course, the moral arguments against carbon consumption are—or at least should be—well known. The oil, gas, and coal companies, it is claimed, are selfishly pursuing mega-profits at the expense of the climate, the environment, our children and grandchildren, and even possibly a future of any reasonable sort for humanity as a whole. “Basically [the big energy companies have] said, we’re going to wreck the planet, we don’t care what you say, we think we can, and we dare you to stop us,” observed climate activist and 350.org cofounder Bill McKibben in a recent interview. This outlook was reflected in many of the signs carried by the estimated 400,000 demonstrators who participated in the People’s Climate March in New York City last September.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fossil fuel industry is often also portrayed as the nucleus of a global system of wealth and power that drags down democracy and perpetuates grotesque planetary inequalities. “Fossil fuels really do create a hyper-stratified economy,” explained Naomi Klein, author of the bestselling book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. “It’s the nature of the resources that they are concentrated, and you need a huge amount of infrastructure to get them out and to transport them. And that lends itself to huge profits and they’re big enough that you can buy off politicians.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Views like these animate the struggles against “fracking” in the United States, against the transport of tar-sands oil via the Keystone XL pipeline, and against the shipment of coal to ports in the Pacific Northwest. They also undergird the driveto rid college and university endowments and other institutions of their fossil fuel stocks, which gained momentum in recent months, thanks to the decisions of both the Stanford University board of trustees to divest from coal company stocks and of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to eventually rid itself of its fossil fuel stocks and invest in alternative energy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Once upon a time, the giant carbon companies like Exxon sought to deflect these attacks by denying the very existence of climate change or the role of humans in causing it—or at least by raising the banner of “uncertainty” about the science behind it. They also financed the efforts of rogue scientists to throw doubt on global warming. While denialism still figures in the propaganda of some carbon companies, they have now largely chosen to embrace another strategy: extolling the benefits of fossil fuels and highlighting their contributions to human wellbeing and progress.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the moment, this carbon counterattack is most clearly and fully articulated in the speeches of top industry officials and in various corporate publications. Of these, the most recent and authoritative, ExxonMobil’s The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, was released in December. Described as a planning guide for future corporate investment and decision-making, the Outlookcombines an analysis of global energy trends with a summary of the company’s pro-carbon ethos—and so offers us a vivid look at where Big Energy is heading in its counterattack on the climate movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If a climate movement is going to challenge the energy powers of this planet effectively, it’s crucial to grasp the vision into which Big Energy is undoubtedly planning to sink incredible resources and which, across much of the planet, will become a living, breathing argument for ignoring the catastrophic warming of the planet. They present it, of course, as a glowing dreamscape of a glorious future—though a nightmare is what should come to mind.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here, then, in a nutshell is the argument that Big Energy is going to seed into the planet for the foreseeable future. Prepare yourself.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>No Growth Without Us</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The cornerstone of the Exxon report is its claims that ever-increasing supplies of energy are needed to sustain economic growth and ensure human betterment, and that fossil fuels alone exist in sufficient quantity (and at affordable enough prices) to satisfy rising international demand. “Forecasting long-term energy trends begins with a simple fact: people need energy,” the report asserts. “Over the next few decades, population and income growth—and an unprecedented expansion of the global middle class—are expected to create new demands for energy.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of this added energy, Exxon acknowledges, will come from nuclear and renewable energy. Most, however, will have to come from fossil fuels. All told, the Outlook estimates, the world will need 35% more energy in 2040 than it does today. That would mean adding an additional 191 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs) to global supplies over and above the 526 quadrillion BTUs consumed in 2010. A small percentage of those added BTUs, about 12%, will come from renewables, but the vast majority—estimated by Exxon at 67%—will be provided by fossil fuels.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wthout fossil fuels, this argument holds, there can be no economic growth. Here’s how Exxon CEO and Chairman Rex Tillerson puts it: “Energy is fundamental to economic growth, and oil is fundamental because to this point in time, we have not found, through technology or other means, another fuel that can substitute for the role that oil plays in transportation, not just passenger, individual transportation, but commercial transportation, jet fuel, marine, all the ways in which we use oil as a fuel to move people and things about this planet.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Natural gas is equally essential, Tillerson argues, because it is the world’s fastest-growing source of energy and a key ingredient in electric power generation. Nor will coal be left out of the mix. It, too, will play an important role in promoting economic growth, largely by facilitating a rapid increase in global electricity supplies. Despite all the concern over coal’s contributions to both urban pollution and climate change, Exxon predicts that it will remain “the No. 1 fuel for power generation” in 2040.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes, other sources of energy will play a role in helping to satisfying global needs, but without carbon-based fuels, Exxon insists, economic growth will screech to a halt and the world’s poor and disadvantaged will stay immersed in poverty.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Propelling the New Global Middle Class</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If there is one overarching theme to the new Exxon ethos, it is that we are witnessing the emergence of a new global middle class with glittering possibilities and that this expanding multitude, constituting perhaps one-half of the world’s population by 2040, will require ever greater quantities of oil, coal, and natural gas if it is to have any hope of achieving its true potential. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Citing data from the Brookings Institution, the company notes that the number of people who earn enough to be considered members of that global middle class will jump from approximately 1.9 billion in 2010 to 4.7 billion in 2030—representing what it calls “the largest collective increase in living standards in history.” China and India will be the two countries adding most substantially to the global middle class, with each acquiring hundreds of millions of newly affluent citizens, but substantial gains will also be achieved by such “key growth” countries as Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Thailand, and Indonesia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emergence of a middle-class bulge on a planetary scale, representing a kind of consumerism gone wild, is something to be celebrated the company insists in its new report, echoing the words of the UNDevelopment Programme: “When dozens of countries and billions of people move up the development ladder, as they are doing today, it has a direct impact on wealth creation and broader human progress in all countries and regions of the world.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For all this to occur, however, that rising middle class will need staggering amounts of added energy—of course, we’re talking about new supplies of the same old carbon-based energy forms here—to build and power all the cars, homes, businesses, appliances, and resorts that such consumers would undoubtedly crave and demand. More income, Exxon explains, “means new demand for food, for travel, for electricity, for housing, schools, and hospitals”—and all of these benefits “depend on energy.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By itself, an increase in world energy supplies could indeed be widely beneficial, if supplied largely by climate-friendly fuels. But such genuinely “alternative” sources of energy (into which, by the way, the giant energy companies have invested next to none of their profits) generally cost more than fossil fuels to produce, at least initially, and that, says Exxon, creates a problem once you consider where demand will be coming from in 2040.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the Outlook, virtually none of the expected increase in global energy demand will come from the older industrialized countries, which can afford more costly alternatives; rather, its source will be developing countries, which generally seek cheap energy quickly—that is, coal and natural gas for electricity generation and oil for transportation. Of the 201 quadrillion BTUs in added energy required by the developing world between now and 2040, predicts Exxon, 148 quadrillion, or 74%, will be provided by fossil fuels—a statistic that, if accurate, should chill us to the bone in climate change terms.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The role of fossil fuels in satisfying the aspirations of the world’s growing middle class is especially evident in the field of transportation. “Rising prosperity will drive increased demand for transportation,” the Outlook notes. “An expanding global middle class means millions of people will buy a car for the first time.” Between 2010 and 2040, the human population is expected to grow by 29%, from approximately seven billion to nine billion people; the global population of cars, SUVs, and other light-duty vehicles, however, is projected to grow by more than 100%, from 825 million to 1.7 billion. And while an increasing number of these vehicles will be powered by gas-electric hybrid engines, the majority will still be fueled by petroleum, pushing up the demand for petroleum and pumping ever more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A rising middle class seeking more consumer products, urban amenities, and travel opportunities will also require a commensurate fleet of trucks, buses, trains, ships, and planes. Reliance on trucks and container ships for moving goods around the world will, in turn, generate a huge demand for diesel and heavy oil, while all those low-cost air carriers (like ill-fated Air Asia) will only up the requirement for aviation fuel.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, the new global middle class will want more computers, flat-screen TVs, air-conditioners, and other appliances, stoking a soaring demand for electricity. Among the advanced nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a growing share of the energy used in generating electricity will indeed come from renewables and natural gas, while coal use will decline sharply. In non-OECD countries, however, the drive for electrification will be accompanied by a significant increase in the consumption of coal—from 54 quadrillion BTUs in 2010 to 82 quadrillion in 2040. This means that the non-OECD’s contribution to global warming will continue to soar, although that’s not a point that Exxon is likely to emphasize.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carbon Humanitarianism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nor does the Exxon blueprint neglect the needs of the world’s poorer citizens. “The progress enabled by modern energy has not reached everyone,” the Outlooknotes. “One out of every five people in the world still has no access to electricity. Even more lack modern cooking fuels.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is the basis for what can only be termed “carbon humanitarianism”—the claim that cheap carbon-based fuels are the best possible response to the energy-poor of the planet (despite everything we know about the devastation climate change will cause, above all in the lives of the poor). This vision of Big Energy as the Good Samaritan of our world was articulated by Rex Tillerson in a June 2013 address to the Asia Society Global Forum. “Approximately 1.3 billion people on our planet,” he said, “still do not have access to electricity for basic needs like clean water, cooking, sanitation, light, or for the safe storage of food and medicine… [which means that] the need to expand energy supplies has a humanitarian dimension that should inform and should guide our energy policy.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked whether climate change didn’t pose a greater challenge to the world’s poor, Tillerson chose to demur. “I think here are much more pressing priorities that we… need to deal with,” he told the Council on Foreign Relations in June 2012. “There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity… They need fuel to cook their food on that’s not animal dung… They’d love to burn fossil fuels because their quality of life would rise immeasurably, and their quality of health and the health of their children and their future would rise immeasurably. You’d save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels more available to a lot of the part of the world that doesn’t have it.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, Exxon predicts that reliance on fossil fuels will grow fastest in the poorest parts of the world—precisely the areas that are expected to suffer the most from climate change. Africa, for example, is expected to witness a 103% increase in net energy consumption between now and 2040, with 83% of that increase supplied by fossil fuels.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We Can Do It Better</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The final part of the industry’s counterattack is the claim that, for all their purported benefits, renewable sources of energy like wind and solar power are just not up to the task of providing the necessary extra energy needed to sustain economic growth and propel billions of people into the middle class. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The problem, Exxon claims, is that wind and solar are more costly than the fossil fuel alternatives and so are not growing fast enough to meet rising world demand. Even though the energy provided by these renewables will expand by 315% between now and 2040, it still represents such a small share of the total global energy mix that, by the end of this period, it will only reach the 4% mark in its share of total world energy consumption (compared to 77% for carbon fuels). Renewables are also said to be problematic as they provide only intermittent sources of energy—failing at night and on windless days—and must be bolstered by other fuels to ensure uninterrupted energy output.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facing the Challenge</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Put together, this represents a dazzling vision of a future in which growing numbers of people enjoy the benefits of abundant energy and unlimited growth. You can already imagine the heartwarming TV commercials that will be generated on a massive scale to propagate such a message: pictures of hard-working individuals of all genders and hues enjoying the American Dream globally thanks to Exxon and its cohorts. Needless to say, in such imagery there will be nothing to mar the promise of unbridled prosperity for all—no horrific droughts, colossal superstorms, or mass migrations of desperate people seeking to flee devastated areas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But this vision, like so much contemporary advertising, is based on a lie: in this case, on the increasingly bizarre idea that, in the twenty-first century, humanity can burn its way through significant parts of the planet’s reserves of fossil fuels to achieve a world in which everything is essentially the same—there’s just more of it for everyone. In the world portrayed by Exxon, it’s possible for a reassuring version of business-as-usual to proceed without environmental consequences. In that world, the unimpeded and accelerated release of carbon into the atmosphere has no significant impact on people’s lives. This is, of course, a modern fairy tale that, if believed, will have the most disastrous of results.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Someday, it will also be seen as one of the more striking lies on whatever’s left of the historical record. In fact, follow this vision to 2040, burning through whatever fossil fuels the energy companies and energy states can pull out of the earth and the ballooning carbon emissions produced will ensure planetary warming far beyond the two degrees Celsius deemed by scientists to be the maximum that the planet can safely absorb without catastrophic climate effects.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, those dreamy landscapes in the new pro-carbon version of the planetary future will, in reality, be replaced by burning forests, flooded coastlines, and ever-expanding deserts. Forget the global rise of the middle class, forget all those cars and trucks and planes and resorts, forget the good life entirely. As climate conditions deteriorate, croplands will wither, coastal cities and farmlands will be eradicated, infrastructure will be devastated, the existing middle class will shrink, and the poor will face ever-increasing deprivation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preventing these catastrophes will involve sustained and dedicated effort by all those who truly care about the future of humanity. This will certainly require better educating people about the risks of climate change and the role played by fossil fuel combustion in producing it. But it will also require deconstructing and exposing the futuristic fantasies deployed by the fossil fuel companies to perpetuate their dominance. However fraudulent their arguments may be, they have the potential to blunt significant progress on climate change and so must be vigorously repudiated. Unless we do so, the apostles of carbon will continue to dominate the debate and bring us ever closer to a planetary inferno. This is the only way to thwart and discredit those who seek to perpetuate the Reign of Carbon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael T. Klare, a TomDispatch regular, is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of The Race for What’s Left. A documentary film version of his book Blood and Oil is available from theMedia Education Foundation. Links to his work can be found at michaelklare.com.To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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"I'm proud to be a part of this industry. You want to talk about saving lives, that's what we are doing."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The former Texas governor praised Texas' efforts in reducing carbon dioxide and other pollution and that U.S. liquefied natural gas, which produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to coal, is replacing dirty coal plants.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also insisted that energy access saves lives in Africa, an industry talking point, Bloomberg noted.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"It upsets me when some guy stands up and says, 'What are you going to do, you're killing people,'" Perry said to applause. "No sir. You want to kill people, you take energy away from them and you see how those north African countries will be treated."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of the fossil fuel industry's biggest names, including <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/exxon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Exxon Mobil</a> and <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/shell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Shell</a>, were present at the annual meeting.</font></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Bloomberg, the protestors were removed from the hotel conference room after their remarks.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Trump</a> administration's <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/white-house-green-rebrand-2488285108.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">environmental PR problem</a> has been under heavy scrutiny in the wake of devastating Atlantic <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/hurricanes" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">hurricanes</a> that destroyed parts of Texas, Florida and the Caribbean.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this month, Perry dismissed the link between climate change and its effect on <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/extreme-weather" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">extreme weather</a> after Hurricane Harvey wrecked Houston.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"We can line up scientists on both sides of this," he told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-perry-says-climate-change-debate-is-secondary-amid-harvey-destruction/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">CBS News</a>, but "this is not the time to be having this conversation."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rather, Perry said, the focus should be on helping <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/hurricane-harvey" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Hurricane Harvey</a> victims.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Everyone wants to run to the climate change debate, but that is very secondary at this particular time," he said.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week happens to be Washington's inaugural " <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NationalCleanEnergyWeek/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">National Clean Energy Week</a>," an event <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/National-Clean-Energy-Week-Kicks-Off-With-Veritable-Who-s-Who-of-the-Clean-Energy-World-1002570971" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">touted</a> to bring together "high-profile elected leaders and national clean energy organizations for substantive discussions around commonsense solutions that directly address America's need for abundant, reliable forms of energy."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perry is <a href="https://twitter.com/SecretaryPerry/status/912654272185208832" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">one of the featured speakers</a> at Tuesday's star event, the Symposium & Demonstration Fair on Capitol Hill.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But environmental organizations <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/cleanenergyweek-dirtyenergyweek-lobbyists-2489431300.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">criticized</a> the weeklong event as an "ultimate corporate greenwashing experience."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a <a href="http://www.pfpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Letter-to-Congress_dirty-energy-week_9.25.17.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">letter</a> addressed to members of Congress, the groups called out some of the sponsors of National Clean Energy Week as "some of the dirtiest actors in the energy industry," such as the American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, Biomass Power Association, Energy Recovery Institute (garbage incineration), and the Nuclear Energy Institute.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The letter was signed by organizations including <a href="https://350.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">350.org</a>, <a href="https://foe.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Friends of the Earth</a> and <a href="http://priceofoil.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Oil Change International</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The climate crisis is real, and these clean energy claims are phony," said Dr. Mary Booth, director of the <a href="http://www.pfpi.net/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Partnership for Policy Integrity</a>, a nonprofit that applies science to inform clean energy policy. 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