Posted on 10/07/2025 6:04:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Desperate to stay relevant, climate activists now claim they can trace individual heat waves to specific oil companies—just as Washington steps away from their agenda.
In the wake of a federal government no longer serving as its obedient lapdog, the desperate lengths to which the climate cult goes to maintain its standing are increasingly imaginative.
Case in point: CNN recently reported that “for the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of extreme weather event research in multiple surprising ways.”
In other words, the climate crusaders—apparently believing that it’s necessary to ratchet up the alarm factor in order to retain relevance—are now claiming the ability to pinpoint exact companies and actions that are allegedly leading to “worsening heat waves”—an interesting finding in the midst of one of the coolest Augusts and Septembers in much of the U.S. in recent years.
The study “encompasses 213 heat waves around the world from 2000 to 2023.” The conclusion? Wait for it—heatwaves “became much more likely and severe during that period, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels.” Shocking.
Accusations that fossil fuels are causing global warming, or cooling, or any weather pattern varying from what is claimed to be “normal,” are nothing new, of course. What’s new is that the study, published in the journal Nature, now claims to identify the specific culprits.
“Of the extreme heat events the researchers focused on, as many as a quarter of them would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without the climate pollution from any of the 14 biggest ‘carbon majors’—the largest fossil fuel and cement producers responsible for the lion’s share of the world’s carbon pollution,” according to the report. The alleged “carbon majors” include industry giants ExxonMobil and Chevron, of course, along with nations such as the former Soviet Union.
“The study also found these companies are responsible for 50% of the increase in heat wave intensity since before humans started adding so much planet-warming carbon and methane pollution to the atmosphere,” according to CNN’s story.
Now we get to the kicker, the apparent practical application of such a specific report: “The conclusions may have far-reaching ramifications, including aiding those who seek in court to make oil and gas companies pay for climate change-related harm, a task that has proven extremely difficult in the U.S.”
Indeed, the radical climate movement has increasingly attempted to win court judgments against companies that provide our most affordable and reliable fuels. These “scientific studies” could provide left-leaning judges with a new justification to side with climate change zealots. One study co-author acknowledged that the conclusions provide another weapon in the legal arsenal.
“Courts are indicating a willingness to hold carbon majors accountable, but at the same time asking for more scientific certainty, and our study helps to close a part of that gap,” said Corina Heri, a study co-author and law professor at Tilburg Law School in Zurich.
It’s difficult to claim as coincidence the fact that the ramped-up effort to apply a shiny new veneer to rusty climate theories comes as the federal government is exponentially moving away from the grip of climate change fever.
The New York Times recently reported that Chris Wright, energy secretary in the Trump administration, has argued that “renewable energy projects developed with the aim of reducing fossil fuels were not beneficial to the United States.” Wright recently “defended the Trump administration’s decision to block a nearly completed $6.2 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island by saying offshore wind increases electricity prices and by downplaying the jobs at stake.”
Speaking on Sept. 5 to the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington research organization, Wright said, “Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important. In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.”
Adding insult to injury as far as climate zealots are concerned was a follow-up announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it will no longer require greenhouse gas emission reports “for thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across the country,” as the Times reported. EPA head Lee Zeldin called greenhouse gas reporting “nothing more than bureaucratic red tape,” and said ending the program could save U.S. businesses $2.4 billion over the coming decade.
Naturally, the energy “experts” contacted by the Times disagreed with Wright’s assessment, and critics similarly assailed the end of greenhouse gas emission reporting, claiming it would seriously set back the fight against climate change.
It’s no wonder that those invested in the global warming movement (by whatever moniker it embraces in any given decade), once riding on easy street with the full backing of the Biden-Harris administration, are attempting to retrench and regroup with a new method to attack their favorite bogeyman—traditional, reliable, affordable energy—in sympathetic courtrooms.
But they may be running out of road, at least in the U.S. If the Trump administration continues to dismantle the statutory mechanisms that have kept the Climate Doom Squad alive, pretty soon there won’t be any far-flung climate regulations left to use as legal ammo—freeing up courts to concern themselves with issues grounded in fact, removed from politics, and more pertinent to average Americans.
Leftist judges need to be overturned and disciplined. Or removed from the bench.
Never give up the con.
So they will be going hard after the biggest offender, China, right?
Right??
Yeah, didn’t think so.
If every climate change fanatic removed themselves from the biosphere the planet would be saved for sure.
No Chinese Court would entertain such a case............ you know, “Judge, would you like a cigarette or blindfold”?
“Climate experts report that they’ll soon be able to pinpoint climate warming to individual cow farts.”
I cannot help but to note that Exxon/Mobil is the largest lithium producer in North America, and that the Rockefeller Foundation was the original donor behind the Environmental Grantmaker's Association. If we all waste energy recycling, processing alcohol, cutting carbon, etc. guess who makes more money?
Note that the climate alarmists don’t just say “carbon dioxide” which was enough during Al Gore’s day. Now they say carbon dioxide and methane. Of course methane is a gas that contains carbon so it goes along well with carbon footprint.
Methane is the most abundant carbon compound in the universe. Look at Jupiter and Saturn and Saturn’s moon, Titan. They all have atmospheres of helium methane and ammonia. Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe but only the 14th most abundant element in the earth’s crust. That’s because (or should I say b/c?) carbon readily bonds with hydrogen into methane which is one of the lightest gasses in terms of weight. Thus it just floats on up into the atmosphere and on into space where it gets blown away in the solar wind never to be seen again. Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe and we hardly have any of it because it floats away into space.
Another thing about carbon pollution is that whole carbon-12 and carbon-14 thing that they use for carbon dating. Carbon-14 is unstable and decays to nitrogen with a half life of around 5500 years. Carbon-14 represents about 12 percent of all carbon in the atmosphere and it is formed in the atmosphere by interactions between atmospheric nitrogen and cosmic rays. This means that 12% of all carbon pollution is produced by nature in the air from air that has been around for millions of years. Why do climate alarmists not take carbon-14 into account when they talk about carbon footprints?
This story is about something called “attribution science,” a recently fabricated statistical charade designed openly and explicitly to appeal to sympathetic but ignorant judges. It is all about the money and is irrelevant to the scientific issue. Like the infamous Michael Mann hockey stick, attribution science has been summarily dismissed as hogwash by qualified statisticians.
Let the power companies build all the wind and solar facilities they wish, but on their own dime. No subsidies, no federal grants.
AND EVERY ONE OF THESE “PERSONS” USE CARS, POWER, ETC.
There are no limits to stupidity of some people, and the absolute evil of others.
Climate change proves it.
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