[✔️] March 5, 2024 Global Warming News | Chicago sues, Small oil changes, Meteorologist death threats, 2014 Keystone XL Pipeline

[Richard Pauli]

/*March*//*5, 2024*/

/[ Chicago seeks relief via the courts - a very slow salvation ]/
*Chicago Sues 5 Oil Companies, Accusing Them of Climate Change 
Destruction, Fraud*
The suit says BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell have 
hurt the city by discrediting science even as their products lead to 
“catastrophic consequences,” including strong storms, flooding, severe 
heat and shoreline erosion.
By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times
February 20, 2024
Chicago is suing five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, 
accusing them of lying about their products and the dangers of climate 
change that contributes to flooding, extreme heat and other destructive 
forces that continue to hurt the city and its residents.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration filed a lawsuit in Cook County 
Circuit Court Tuesday that names BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon 
Mobil and Shell, accusing the companies of discrediting science and 
misleading the public as the climate crisis continued to wreak havoc on 
the planet.
The city is also suing the trade group American Petroleum Institute, 
which it accuses of conspiring with the companies to deceive consumers 
through disinformation campaigns even as the industry acknowledged 
internally that climate change was real.

“The climate change impacts that Chicago has faced and will continue to 
face – including more frequent and intense storms, flooding, droughts, 
extreme heat events and shoreline erosion – are felt throughout every 
part of the city and disproportionately in low-income communities,” the 
city said in its lawsuit.

Chicago is following the lead of New York, California and other cities 
and states that seek to recoup potentially billions of dollars in 
damages blamed on the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil and natural 
gas, that create carbon dioxide and have led to climate change. The city 
has not asked for a specific amount of money.

The city is asking a court to hold the companies responsible for the 
costs of climate change, including damage to property and infrastructure 
necessary to adapt...
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“Chicago is signing up for many, many years of litigation,” Parenteau 
said. “Ten years is my estimate—if they get to the goal line and prove 
billions of dollars in damages.”

The 185-page lawsuit claims that the fossil fuel industry fought the 
science around climate change and its causes even as company scientists 
conceded a threat.

In all, the civil lawsuit alleges 11 counts of fraud, nuisance, 
conspiracy and negligence. The companies failed to warn about “the 
unreasonably dangerous conditions of the fossil fuel products and their 
derivatives,” the city alleges.

The suit cites marketing materials and other company-generated 
communications that the city alleges falsely state the companies are 
doing their part to fight the climate crisis.
Lawyers for the city compare the tactics used by the industry as similar 
to tobacco companies’ past claims that their cigarettes were less 
harmful. That industry was also sued by many states, and settlement 
money in the late ’90s went toward various uses from health-related 
programs to filling budget holes.

One example in the lawsuit cites a ConocoPhillips marketing claim that 
its gas is “better for the environment.”
The trade group and the companies “conspired to mislead” consumers about 
the risks fossil fuel usage presented to the world. “Widely 
disseminating marketing materials, refuting the scientific knowledge” 
and also “promoting pseudo-scientific theories of their own.”

“It’s not just that they knew, they misrepresented and withheld 
information for 50 years at least,” city lawyer Rebecca Hirsch told the 
Sun-Times.

The Chicago suit zeroes in on climate-related effects, including extreme 
heat, increased rain and flooding. The complaint cites the more than 700 
deaths in the summer of 1995 during an excruciating four-day heat wave.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20022024/chicago-sues-five-oil-companies/



/[ Doing the math on oil and finances ]/
*Arthur Berman on the Big Effect of Small Changes in Oil Availability*
Nate Hagens
  Mar 4, 2024  #101 #thegreatsimplification #natehagens
Excerpted from The Great Simplification Episode #101 aired on December 
13th, 2023
Full Episode:
   Arthur Berman: " "Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTh2nBEcCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaOrudvX10



/[ Chris Goninger Meteorologist - received death threats for climate 
coverage - less than 3 min video ]/
*Chris Gloninger: The Price of Climate Truth Telling*
greenmanbucket
  Mar 4, 2024
I spoke to meteorologist Chris Gloninger, who found out the hard way 
that telling the truth about climate change can trigger some of the 
worst members of society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqBkJeigQg


/[The news archive -  ]/
/*March 5, 2014 */
March 5, 2014:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz declares that he was wrong to support the Keystone XL 
pipeline.
Hearing locals' fight to stop the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline 
in Nebraska changes perspective. Ed Schultz, Ernest Scheyder and Rep. 
Grijalva discuss.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/i-was-wrong-ed-says-dont-build-pipeline-183554627935
                                 [ MSNBC has removed the video for this 
story]


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