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Prosecuting Climate Dissent
Wall Street Journal ^
| 8 Nov 2015
| WSJ Opinion by email
Posted on 11/09/2015 6:31:19 PM PST by MtnClimber
Sheldon Whitehouse got his man. The Rhode Island Senator has been lobbying for prosecutions of oil and gas companies over climate change, and New York Attorney General and progressive activist Eric Schneiderman has now obliged by opening a subpoena assault on Exxon Mobil. This marks a dangerous new escalation of the leftâs attempt to stamp out all disagreement on global-warming science and policy.
Progressives have been losing the political debate over climate change, failing to pass cap and trade even when Democrats had a supermajority in Congress. So they have turned to the force of the state through President Obamaâs executive diktats and now with the threat of prosecution. This assault wonât stop with Exxon. Climate change is the new religion on the left, and progressives are going to treat heretics like Cromwell did Catholics.
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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: globalwarming
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To: MtnClimber
NY I believe fines companies big time if they try to leave the state- not sure htough
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posted on
11/09/2015 10:02:28 PM PST
by
Bob434
To: MtnClimber
Time to wake up America and Europe. It is either them or us. Throw the Tea overboard.
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posted on
11/10/2015 3:44:58 AM PST
by
justa-hairyape
(The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: MtnClimber
The totalitarian left will be loading us all into cattle cars.
And Republican leaders will continue to say nothing.
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posted on
11/10/2015 4:48:34 AM PST
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: Bob434; MtnClimber
Exxon would not be “leaving” the state; they would just cease doing business there. You can’t fine someone for not doing business.
As for the Feds, it’s likely the same thing. If you do business, you are subject to Federal regulation. The response by Exxon is “we’re not doing business.” And if all of the fossil fuel based energy companies (oil, coal, natural gas) took the same approach and boycotted New York State, we’ll see how much they really want to sacrifice to save the planet. Being liberals, and therefore hypocrites, my guess is they won’t really want to personally sacrifice anything.
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11/10/2015 7:55:18 AM PST
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henkster
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
the AGW hoax is fascism, and all fascists must be destroyed. November topics:
- Canada's New Minister of Climate Change: The Science is Real
- Global Warming Hoax Spiraling Into Radical Tyrannical Beast
- [Future Headline] Global Warming Causes November Hurricane Kate! Raise Carbon Taxes Now!
- Peabody Energy, NY Attorney General Resolve Questions Regarding Climate Change Disclosures
- Mathematicians, Legendary Physicist, IPCC Expert Throw Wrenches Into UN Climate Summit
- Pressure Builds to Probe Exxon Climate Claims
- PETER HITCHENS: Warmists armed with windmills are the REAL threat to Britain
- Hillary Clinton: People Are Fleeing Syria Because of 'Climate Change'
- World Bank: Climate change could result in 100 million poor (Women, children hit hardest)
- GAO: Climate Change Could Cause More: Cardiovascular Disease in Northwest, Allergies (T)
- Obama Leads But No One Follows In Climate Change Fight
- Citing Climate Change, Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
- Billionaire Says Socialism Needed to Stem Climate Disaster [semi-satire]
- New York Prepares for Up to 6 Feet of Sea Level Rise (Gorebal Warming Barf!)
- Iowa Democrats Call for a 'WWII-Scale Mobilization' to Fight Climate Change
- More Oil Companies Could Join Exxon Mobil as Focus of Climate Investigations
- Creative Lawyering On Display As Schneiderman Targets ExxonMobil On Climate Change
- Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General
- Climate Fraud? Rep. Warns NOAA of Hiding Subpoenaed Data
- Why Isn't the Left Happy to Hear News That Global Warming Isn't Happening?
- Exxon Mobil Under Investigation in New York Over Climate Statements
- China's CO2 Charade Shows Who The Real Climate Deniers Are
- Solar Energy Contributes to Climate Change Some, Study Finds
- Global Warming Activists Don't Like When Someone Follows The Money
- Marius B. Winter "What A Perfect Night For Love" Al Bowlly vocalist (1930)
- Climate Change Kills the Mood: Economists Warn of Less Sex on a Warmer Planet
- Bill Gates: Only Socialism Can Save Us From Climate Change
- Another Climate Alarmist Lets It Slip: Why They Want To Scare You
- Global Warming blamed for antarctic snow growth as data wrong again, Putin says warming is fraud
- Hollywood Climate Hypocrites -- New Ozone Law -- Energy Lawsuits: Enriching Lawyers, Bankrupting Us
- Mathematicians, Legendary Physicist, IPCC Expert Throw Wrenches Into UN Climate Summit
- The Calcification of Climate Science
- Back To The Dark Ages: Top French Weatherman Fired Over Climate Change Book (Refutes AGW)
- Bill Gates: Only Big Government, Mega-Rich People Can Stop Climate Change Apocalypse
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posted on
11/10/2015 2:36:48 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: MtnClimber; doug from upland; Jim Robinson; basil; SampleMan; Steely Tom; butlerweave; elpadre; ...
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11/10/2015 5:12:47 PM PST
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GOPJ
("We need some muscle over here to beat dis guy's face in - he's mouthin' off" -Missouri protester)
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