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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November </b></i></font></font><font
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<i>[ already noticed ]<br>
</i><b>Earth just had its hottest year on record — climate change is
to blame</b><br>
Around 7.3 billion people faced temperatures strongly influenced by
global warming over the past year.<br>
Carissa Wong<br>
The past 12 months were the hottest on record. Some 7.3 billion
people worldwide were exposed, for at least 10 days, to temperatures
that were heavily influenced by global warming, with one-quarter of
people facing dangerous levels of extreme heat over the past 12
months, according to a report by the non-profit organization Climate
Central.<br>
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“These impacts are only going to grow as long as we continue to burn
coal oil and natural gas,” says Andrew Pershing, the vice- president
for science at Climate Central...<br>
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This study clearly provides robust evidence for the science of
climate-change attribution, says climate researcher Cecilia Conde at
the National University in Mexico.<br>
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Joyce Kimutai, a meteorologist at Kenya Meteorological Department in
Nairobi, says the analysis underscores the urgent need for countries
to take action. She adds that at the United Nations COP 28 climate
summit this month, the world needs to make progress on phasing out
fossil fuels and implementing the Loss and Damage fund through which
richer countries have agreed to help poorer countries cope with the
social and physical devastation caused by climate change.<br>
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doi: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03523-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03523-3</a><br>
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<p><i>[ slight humor image "We're going to need a bigger Y-Axis"]</i><br>
<b>Daily global mean temperature anomaly</b><br>
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<i>[ OK, more gasoline. More CO2, more heat, sorry ]</i><br>
<b>Judge rules Willow oil project in Alaska's Arctic can proceed</b><br>
November 9, 20238:27 PM ET<br>
FROM KSKA<br>
By Liz Ruskin<br>
The massive Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope can move
forward, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled Thursday.<br>
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U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected the claims of
environmental groups, who argued the government's decision to
approve the ConocoPhillips project didn't adequately consider its
contribution to climate change and potential harm to the region's
threatened polar bears.<br>
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The decision removes one of the last obstacles to the project, which
would be the largest oil development on federal land in decades, and
has become a flashpoint for climate activists.<br>
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Environmental groups said they plan to appeal.<br>
"[The U.S. Department of Interior's] decision to greenlight the
project in the first place moved us in the opposite direction of our
national climate goals, in the face of the worsening climate
crisis," said Erik Grafe, an attorney with the environmental group
Earthjustice, in an emailed statement.<br>
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In its legal briefs, the company cites what it sees as the benefits
of the project, including an estimated $7.6 billion in revenue for
the U.S. Treasury over the life of the project, and 2,500 local jobs
during construction.<br>
ConocoPhillips also emphasized its efforts to limit the impact on
the Arctic environment.<br>
<br>
"This feat will be accomplished with a minimal footprint — a mere
three drill sites — and adherence to the most stringent
environmental protections in the world," ConocoPhillips' attorneys
wrote.<br>
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Some Alaska Native groups joined conservationists trying to block
the project, citing concerns about the impact on caribou hunting and
other subsistence activities central to the region's traditional
culture.<br>
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But the state's largest Alaska Native associations and major
for-profit Native corporations have endorsed the project. So have
most local and regional governments on Alaska's North Slope, which
represent mostly Iñupiat Alaska Native communities.<br>
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"That's equivalent to putting two million extra cars on the road and
driving them for 30 years," Grafe said.<br>
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But Gleason found the government's analysis was consistent with
environmental laws, and with goals Congress established for the
NPR-A.<br>
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"ConocoPhillips, as the lessee, has the right and the responsibility
to fully develop its oil and gas leases in the NPR-A subject to
reasonable restrictions and mitigation measures imposed by the
federal government," she wrote.<br>
<br>
ConocoPhillips says it intends to resume construction work on Dec.
21, the start of the winter construction season.<br>
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While the Willow Project is moving ahead, the Biden administration
has tried to temper the anger of climate activists by taking other
steps to curb oil production in the Arctic.<br>
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The administration has proposed new rules that would limit future
oil and gas development in other parts of the NPR-A. It's also
reconsidering whether to allow drilling to the east, in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge, and recently canceled oil and gas leases
granted during the Trump administration.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1212016595/judge-rules-willow-oil-project-in-alaskas-arctic-can-proceed">https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1212016595/judge-rules-willow-oil-project-in-alaskas-arctic-can-proceed</a><br>
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<i>[ Anthropocene considers villainy ]</i><br>
<b>Should we retire the climate villain narrative?</b><br>
Simple stories pack a persuasive punch, but they might be stifling
our climate creativity<br>
By Mark Harris <br>
November 9, 2023<br>
<br>
The illustration for a Guardian story from 2021 epitomizes the view
of many environmentalists: a smiling businessman smokes a cigar and
counts his money while looming over a world in flames. “Meet
America’s top climate villains,” the article promises, listing
twelve CEOs, bankers, politicians, and media tycoons who, it says,
“have an unimaginable sway over the fate of humanity.” And not in a
good way—this cabal twirls their mustaches while cheerfully
clear-cutting the rainforests. <br>
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But the real world isn’t a fairytale. Putting the blame for our
climate mess in the boardroom ignores the role that governments have
played in perpetuating fossil fuels, and the technological
challenges in equitably transitioning to a low-carbon economy.<br>
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So we’re now faced with a dilemma. On one hand, people naturally
gravitate toward stories with villains and heroes. And that
emotional punch is clearly politically potent. On the other hand, in
the multi-generational struggle against climate change, an
adversarial narrative might be getting in the way of positive
change.<br>
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• • •<br>
<b>Villains Can Spur Positive Change</b><br>
<br>
<b>1. Climate villains are real.</b> Facts are facts. The oil and
gas industry knew about the likelihood of dramatic global warming
since at least the 1950s, news magnate Rupert Murdoch grew rich on
spreading disinformation, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has accepted
millions of dollars for advertisements to spread false claims on the
climate. Textbook villainy.<br>
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<b>2. Anger is more productive than hope. </b>If the end result is
what matters, it’s far more important to get mad than to cross your
fingers, Norwegian researchers found. A recent study of over 2,000
people in Norway found that the link between climate activism and
anger was seven times stronger than it was for hope. The source of
people’s frustration was often human actors, such as politicians.
Similarly, research from the London School of Economics shows that
action-oriented stories about climate change can produce real-world
behavior change. <br>
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<b>3. Humanity needs villains</b>. Researchers Kai Gehring from
Heidelberg University and Matteo Grigoletto of the University of
Bern analyzed over two million tweets about the climate between 2010
and 2021. In this fascinating piece of research from May, they found
that narratives depicting villains, those involving human
characters, and simpler stores were more likely to go viraI. These
story types became more prevalent during the Trump presidency,
“which appeared to shift the narrative focus from potential
solutions to climate change, towards the villain role of human
characters,” they write. Villain stories, however inaccurate, are
just what humans respond to during uncertain times.<br>
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<b>Insults Don’t Reduce Atmospheric Carbon </b><br>
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<b> 1. Name innovators instead of shaming laggards. </b>Not so
fast, writes Alex Trembath at the Breakthrough Institute, an
environmental non-profit. He points out that until recently, many
low-carbon alternatives were radically expensive, and their high
cost had less to do with Big Oil’s nefarious influence than basic
resource availability and engineering. That makes it understandable
(and not at all villainous) for developing countries to struggle to
decarbonize. Singling out big business “misidentifies the cause of
one of the central problems facing humanity and misdirects those
seeking solutions towards a tempting but ultimately
counterproductive target,” he writes. “There are no villains in
climate change.”<br>
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<b>2. Not villains but anti-heroes. </b>Oil companies are some of
the largest corporations the world has ever seen, and aren’t going
anywhere anytime soon. This illuminating piece by Murray Shearer, a
professor of hydrogen and alternative energy at CQ University in
Australia, lays out how Big Oil’s infrastructure and expertise might
be essential in any future transition to green hydrogen. If today’s
climate villains can change direction, they might just follow a
classic redemption arc. <br>
<br>
<b>3. The problem with climate click bait.</b> Pro-climate
Republican political strategist Mary Anna Mancuso writes that angry
protests, such as throwing pies at villainous airline CEOs, “may
capture attention in the short term, but they can also alienate the
very people who need to be engaged in the fight against climate
change. They are the climate action equivalent of click bait.”
Writing in The Hill, she suggests, “Instead of demanding perfection
in our climate solutions, we should encourage a process where
everyone, even imperfectly, actively contributes to the solutions.”<br>
• • •<br>
<b>What To Keep An Eye On</b><br>
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<b> 1. Taxing the bad guys. </b>If someone is widely perceived as
a villain, punishing them becomes not just acceptable but required.
France, the UK and India have all applied windfall taxes to oil and
gas companies enjoying record profits on the back of supply
uncertainties from the war in Ukraine. The billions such taxes raise
could go to helping the global south, suggests former UK Prime
Minister Gorden Brown.<br>
<br>
<b>2. The Democrats driving anti-climate action?</b> Political
scientists Eric Merkley and Dominik Stecula read thousands of news
stories from the past three decades, and trace the roots of today’s
Republican climate denial to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth film in
2006. Having such a prominent Democrat promoting the climate
inevitably polarized Republicans against it, they argue. And the
more Democrats call out Republican villains for lack of climate
action now, they say, the harder red states will fight against it.
Instead, they recommend getting eco-minded conservatives to push
win-win pro-climate measures like energy independence.<br>
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<b>3. Efforts to break up Big Oil. </b>Activist group Polluter’s
Out aim to abolish or nationalize the biggest climate villains might
seem utterly unrealistic, but the fact that it’s even getting
mainstream attention suggests there’s something to the movement –
and remember that Obama briefly nationalized GM and Chrysler during
the 2008 financial crisis. Writing in Prospect, Robert Pullen makes
the case for the US government to nationalize ExxonMobil, Chevron,
and ConocoPhillips.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/11/should-we-retire-the-climate-villain-narrative/">https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/11/should-we-retire-the-climate-villain-narrative/</a><br>
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<i>[ Classic Climate villains - from the Guardian ]</i><br>
<b>The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains</b><br>
Georgia Wright, Liat Olenick and Amy Westervelt<br>
Wed 27 Oct 2021<br>
Few are household names, yet these 12 enablers and profiteers have
an unimaginable sway over the fate of humanity<br>
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<b>THE WOKE-WASHER Mike Wirth</b><br>
Chairman of the board and CEO of Chevron<br>
<br>
Mike Wirth captains Chevron, a notorious corporate polluter
responsible for one of the highest total carbon emissions of any
private company worldwide.<br>
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Under Wirth’s direction, Chevron has pursued several greenwashing
tactics to downplay the company’s environmental impact. A coalition
of environmental groups filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint
against Chevron earlier this year saying it misled the public by
claiming responsibility only for carbon emissions associated with
refining and transporting oil, not the total emissions created by
the product it sells.<br>
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Wirth also sits on the board of the American Petroleum Institute, an
oil industry trade group with a long track record of spreading
climate denial and delaying legislative efforts to curb carbon
emissions.<br>
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In his own words: “Let them plant trees.”<br>
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<b>THE RINGLEADER Darren Woods</b><br>
Chairman of the board and CEO of Exxon<br>
<br>
ExxonMobil is publicly known as one of the first oil companies to
become aware of climate change, more than 40 years ago. Still, Exxon
spent millions of dollars spreading climate denial while
simultaneously contributing the fourth largest amount of carbon
emissions of any investor-owned company in the world.<br>
<br>
Woods, who has been with the company since 1992, makes more than
$20m a year. And though he expressed support for the 2015 Paris
agreement to substantially reduce global pollution, leaked documents
showed his plan for the company to increase its emissions by 17%
through 2025.<br>
<br>
Earlier this year, Exxon lobbyists were captured on video revealing
the company’s efforts to obstruct climate legislation in Congress.
Woods later tried to distance himself and the company from the
lobbyists, saying they “in no way represent” Exxon’s position.<br>
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In his own words: Woods once called carbon reduction standards “a
beauty match, a beauty competition”.<br>
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<b>THE ENABLER Jamie Dimon CEO of Chase Bank</b><br>
<br>
Billionaire Jamie Dimon is top dog at JP Morgan Chase, which has
provided $317bn in fossil fuel financing – 33% more than any other
bank – since the Paris agreement was adopted in 2015. Under Dimon,
Chase has also funneled more than $2bn into tar sands projects
between 2016 and 2019.<br>
<br>
When Chase’s managing director, Greg Determann, was asked early this
year if the company would still lend to oil and gas companies
despite the worsening climate crisis, Determann replied: “‘Mr Dimon
is quite focused on the industry. It’s a huge business for us and
that’s going to be the case for decades to come.”<br>
<br>
In his own words: “The solution is not as simple as walking away
from fossil fuels.”<br>
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<b>THE FINANCIER Larry Fink</b><br>
CEO of BlackRock<br>
<br>
As the chief executive of BlackRock, Fink oversees one of the
world’s largest fossil fuel investment portfolios, with $87bn behind
the industry.<br>
<br>
And though Fink has made sweeping climate promises and even wrote an
op-ed about achieving a “net-zero” world, his company has profited
off deforestation – a major cause of rising emissions – more than
any other company globally.<br>
<br>
Fink has also pushed BlackRock to vote against pro-climate action
shareholder resolutions – all while angling for money from the
federal government that should go to climate projects.<br>
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In his own words: “Without global action, every nation will bear
enormous costs from a warming planet, including damage from more
frequent natural disasters and supply-chain failures.”<br>
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<b>THE KINGPIN Charles Koch Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries</b><br>
<br>
Alongside his now-deceased brother David, Charles Koch has a lengthy
résumé of climate malfeasance. The multibillionaire is the longtime
head of Koch Industries, a refining, petrochemical and pipeline
company labeled by Greenpeace as a “kingpin of climate denial”.<br>
<br>
The Kochs, and particularly Charles, moved early to politicize
climate change. Charles founded and funded the Cato Institute, a
libertarian thinktank known to coordinate and distribute climate
denial, which became the first organization to stoke the ideological
divide on the climate crisis. Koch Industries went on to spend
nearly $150m financing climate denial groups between 1997 and 2018
alone.<br>
<br>
Since his brother’s death, Charles has attempted to backtrack on his
legacy of sowing hyper-partisan division. But according to
OpenSecrets, Koch Industries is the top spender ($5.6m) on annual
lobbying on oil and gas so far this year.<br>
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In his own words: “Boy did we screw up. What a mess!”-<br>
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<b>THE OBSTRUCTIONIST Mitch McConnell Senate minority leader</b><br>
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Mitch McConnell admitted to believing in human-caused climate change
only in 2020. He is also the chief architect of ongoing Republican
obstructionism. Under President Obama, whose climate actions he
smeared as a “war on coal”, McConnell used the filibuster to block
even tepid climate reforms supported by a majority of Americans.<br>
<br>
Under Trump, McConnell nuked the judicial filibuster in order to put
three anti-science, pro-corporate justices on the supreme court,
including Amy Coney-Barrett, who maintains deep family ties to big
oil (her father worked at Shell for decades). And now, McConnell is
ensuring that 100% of Republicans will vote against all of Biden’s
climate agenda.<br>
<br>
McConnell is also heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry, to the
tune of more than $3m over the course of his infamous career.<br>
<br>
In his own words: “I’m not a scientist.”<br>
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<b>THE SABOTEUR Joe Manchin US senator</b><br>
<br>
Today, Joe Manchin is most famous for being a swing vote for
important legislation, but the real story is how the fossil fuel
industry made him mega-wealthy through two coal companies he founded
in the 1980s.<br>
<br>
While even coalminers in his home state of West Virginia support a
Green New Deal, Manchin uses his position to hold climate
legislation hostage on behalf of the fossil fuel industry – which he
is doing by threatening to vote against Biden’s Build Back Better
climate agenda. The Exxon lobbyists caught on tape earlier this year
specifically identified Manchin as “their guy”, and said they meet
with him several times a week.<br>
<br>
According to OpenSecrets, Manchin takes more money from the fossil
fuel industry than any other Democrat.<br>
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In his own words: “If you’re sticking your head in the sand, and
saying that fossil [fuel] has to be eliminated in America … and
thinking that’s going to clean up the global climate, it won’t clean
it up at all. If anything, it would be worse.”<br>
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<b>THE PROPAGANDIST Mark Zuckerberg </b><br>
Facebook founder and CEO<br>
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Zuckerberg, whose net worth is $120bn, shows a consistent
willingness to profit off the spread of climate denial on behalf of
the fossil fuel industry. In April 2021, Zuckerberg told Congress
climate misinformation was “a big issue”, yet Facebook has done
little to rein in climate denial or challenge the fossil fuel
industry.<br>
<br>
Last year, pro-fossil fuel Facebook ads were viewed 431m times. In
just the first half of 2020, ads on Facebook calling climate change
a hoax were viewed at least 8m times in the United States alone.<br>
<br>
In 2019, an article falsely attributing climate change to Earth’s
solar orbit went viral, accumulating millions of views without
intervention by the company. And this year, one report found that in
just the first two months of 2021, Facebook spread climate denial to
more than 25 million people, including posts about wind turbines
being to blame after Texas froze over in February.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, Facebook has muzzled actual climate scientists trying to
share peer-reviewed research.<br>
<br>
In his own words: “Move fast and break things. Unless you are
breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”<br>
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<b>THE TYCOON Rupert Murdoch</b><br>
Founder of News Corp<br>
<br>
The father of international media conglomerate News Corp and the CEO
of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and many other outlets,
Australian American tycoon Rupert Murdoch has overseen his
companies’ rampant spreading of misinformation and climate denial
for decades, netting him over $23bn.<br>
<br>
Although Murdoch has claimed his company does not support climate
denial, his news outlets have published article after article sowing
doubt in climate science. Meanwhile, as of 2019, more than 80% of
climate coverage on Fox News was steeped in denial, according to an
analysis by the consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen.<br>
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In his own words: “Climate change has been going on as long as the
planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.”<br>
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<b>THE DESTROYER David MacLennan</b><br>
CEO of Cargill<br>
<br>
Rainforests are the most important climate regulators in the world.
But Cargill, a global food corporation helmed by MacLennan, has a
profit model based on rainforest destruction caused by soy and beef
production, particularly in the Amazon.<br>
<br>
MacLennan has been in charge of the company’s global strategy since
2013. He was calling the shots when, in 2019, former congressman
Henry Waxman called Cargill the “worst company in the world”,
referring to its track record on deforestation.<br>
<br>
Thanks to public pressure, Cargill did recently declare a moratorium
on buying agricultural products from illegally cleared rainforest,
but there is evidence that under MacLennan’s leadership, the company
is already ignoring its own commitment.<br>
<br>
In his own words: When asked why Cargill wasn’t eliminating
deforestation from its supply chain: “The supply chains in Brazil
are very complicated.”<br>
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<b>THE FABULIST Richard Edelman</b><br>
CEO of Edelman PR<br>
<br>
Edelman heads the global communications firm Edelman PR, which made
tens of millions of dollars over the years by working with fossil
fuel companies. His firm has created multi-pronged PR, advertising
and lobbying campaigns with ExxonMobil, TransCanada, the American
Petroleum Institute and Shell – prompting high-profile clients and
executives to leave over the firm’s work peddling climate denial.<br>
<br>
In 2015, Edelman announced that the firm would stop accepting
climate denier assignments, but he has since claimed that the firm’s
work for Shell, ExxonMobil and more don’t technically qualify as
climate denial.<br>
<br>
Tax filings show that since that 2015 announcement, the firm has
raked in $12m for its work with the American Fuel and Petrochemical
Manufacturers alone, whose most recent focus has been increasing
criminal penalties for pipeline protesters.<br>
<br>
In his own words: “I’m proud of what our firm is doing to build a
house of trust through our mission, values, and actions.”<br>
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<b>THE SMOOTH TALKER Ted Boutrous</b><br>
Partner of Gibson Dunn law firm<br>
As Chevron’s lead attorney and the main spokesman for all the oil
companies in some two dozen climate liability cases, Boutrous sets
the agenda in answering to the fossil fuel industry’s decades of
lies about climate change. His argument before the courts hinges on
the idea that every person shares equal blame for the climate
crisis, and that it’s “counterproductive” to hold the fossil fuel
industry particularly responsible.<br>
<br>
Law Students for Climate Accountability rates Gibson Dunn among the
worst of the worst on its climate scorecard for having the
second-highest amount of fossil fuel litigation work of all 26 firms
the group evaluated.<br>
<br>
In his own words: “Chevron is a great company and great client with
a strong culture of social responsibility.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen</a><br>
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[ Other villain citations ]<br>
<b>Six Quiet Climate Villains</b><br>
Under-the-radar polluters, and the individuals doing their best to
hold climate science back<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians</a>
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<b>The Five Worst Climate Villains Among World Leaders</b><br>
By Chris Dalby - Oct 29, 2014, <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Five-Worst-Climate-Villains-Among-World-Leaders.html">http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Five-Worst-Climate-Villains-Among-World-Leaders.html</a><br>
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<b>These Two World Leaders Are Laughing While the Planet Burns Up</b><br>
Meet earth's worst climate villains<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/119896/canada-australias-climate-change-record-leaders-deniers">https://newrepublic.com/article/119896/canada-australias-climate-change-record-leaders-deniers</a>
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<b>Stephen Harper Ranked #1 Worst ‘Climate Villain’ In The World</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/10/stephen-harper-ranked-1-worst-climate-villain-in-the-world/#">http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/10/stephen-harper-ranked-1-worst-climate-villain-in-the-world/#</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141103225218/http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/10/stephen-harper-ranked-1-worst-climate-villain-in-the-world/#">https://web.archive.org/web/20141103225218/http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/10/stephen-harper-ranked-1-worst-climate-villain-in-the-world/#</a><br>
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<b>The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee</b><br>
By David Roberts@drvolts Oct 26, 2015,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9616370/science-committee-worse-benghazi-committee">http://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9616370/science-committee-worse-benghazi-committee</a><br>
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<i>[ From the archive -- the first draft of a villainy list from
decade ago - by Mike Roddy ]</i><br>
<b>Beast 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains, 2011</b><br>
Or the 15 Most Heinous Climate Villain CATEGORIES:<br>
Most crazy, extreme reach, furthest from any possible science <br>
Most directly connected with carbon fuel money<br>
Most carefully adhering to script <br>
<br>
<b>EVIL TWIN AWARD:</b><br>
David and Edward Koch<br>
Howard Shellenberger and Steve Nordhaus<br>
Ross McKittrick and Steve McIntyre<br>
Lord Monkton and Marty Feldman (half joke)<br>
<b><br>
BRAIN-FRIED 60’S ICON AWARD</b><br>
Ted Nugent<br>
Stewart Brand<br>
Alexander Cockburn<br>
Lunar-astronaut Harrison Schmitt <br>
<br>
<b>CREDENTIALS IN THE WRONG FIELD AWARD</b><br>
Anthony Watts<br>
Roger Pielke Jr.<br>
Edward Wegman<br>
Michael Crichton<br>
SLIMY POLITICIAN AWARD<br>
James Inhofe, Lindsey Graham, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) , <br>
Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General, Virginia<br>
Mitch McConnell, Senator from Kentucky<br>
John Barasso, Senator from Wyoming<br>
Endless names for this category, <br>
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, (R-Missouri),
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=1">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=1</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=12">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=12</a><br>
<p>Michael Steele (drill baby drill RNC head)</p>
<b>CLUELESS JOURNALIST AWARD</b><br>
Rush Limbaugh, radio talk host<br>
Glenn Beck, TV personality<br>
John Tierney, New York Times Science Editor<br>
George Will (although more of a pundit)<br>
<br>
also other categories: <br>
<b>SHAMELESS PUNDITS, MEDIA WHORES AND OPPORTUNISTS </b><br>
Mark Morano <br>
George Will<br>
David Bellamy, British TV presenter, environmentalist <br>
Sarah Palin<br>
Bjorn Lomborg<br>
Phelim McAleer producer of anti global warming films<br>
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard co-founder <br>
Steve Doocy (is he still on ??
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=14">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=14</a>)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=6">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html?slidenumber=6</a><br>
John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel <b><br>
</b><br>
<b>SHAMELESS ACADEMIC QUACKS or PSEUDO SCIENTISTS</b><br>
Sallie Baliunas <br>
Richard Lindzen <br>
Patrick Michaels <br>
Frederick Seitz <br>
Fred Singer <br>
Completelist
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers:Scientists">http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers:Scientists</a><br>
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<br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Researchers might want to check these</p>
<blockquote><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/">http://www.desmogblog.com/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers">http://www.exxonsecrets.org/wiki/index.php/Deniers</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/">http://www.sourcewatch.org/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.prwatch.org/">http://www.prwatch.org/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_Milloy">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_Milloy</a><br>
SIX QUITE CLIMATE VILLAINS
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians?page=1">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians?page=1</a><br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians?page=1">http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/six-quiet-climate-villians?page=1</a><br>
<p><br>
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<p><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive global warming trumps
Trump ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>November 11, 2016 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> November 11, 2016<br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"For a look at how sharply policy in Washington will
change under the administration of Donald J. Trump, look no
further than the environment.<br>
<br>
"Mr. Trump has called human-caused climate change a 'hoax.' He has
vowed to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency 'in almost
every form.'<br>
<br>
"And in an early salvo against one of President Obama’s signature
issues, Mr. Trump has named Myron Ebell of the business-backed
Competitive Enterprise Institute to head his E.P.A. transition
team. Mr. Ebell has asserted that whatever warming caused by
greenhouse gas pollution is modest and could be beneficial. A 2007
Vanity Fair profile of Mr. Ebell called him an 'oil industry
mouthpiece.'<br>
<br>
"Global warming may indeed be the sharpest example of how policy
in Washington will change under a Trump administration. President
Obama has said his efforts to establish the United States as the
global leader in climate policy are his proudest legacy.<br>
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climate change policy warn, that legacy would unravel quickly. The
world, then, may have no way to avoid the most devastating
consequences of global warming, including rising sea levels,
extreme droughts and food shortages, and more powerful floods and
storms."<br>
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