WUWT:
From the Washington Times and the department of “Mutally Assured Destruction” (MAD) comes this blowback.
If Democratic attorneys general can pursue climate change skeptics for fraud, then also at risk of prosecution are climate alarmists whose predictions of global doom have failed to materialize.
The “cuts both ways” argument was among those raised by 13 Republican attorneys general in a letter urging their Democratic counterparts to stop using their law enforcement power against fossil fuel companies and others that challenge the climate change catastrophe narrative.
Here is the text of the letter:
Dear Fellow Attorneys General:
Several state Attorneys General recently held a press conference under the banner of “AGs United for Clean Power.” The media event highlighted an investigation into “whether fossil fuel companies misled investors and the public on the impact of climate change on their businesses.” 1 We think this effort by our colleagues to police the global warming debate through the power of the subpoena is a grave mistake.
We all understand the need for a healthy environment, but we represent a wide range of viewpoints regarding the extent to which man contributes to climate change and the costs and benefits of any proposed fix. Nevertheless, we agree on at least one thing— this is not a question for the courts. Using law enforcement authority to resolve a public policy debate undermines the trust invested in our offices and threatens free speech.
We are concerned that our colleagues’ investigation undermines the trust the people have invested in Attorneys General to investigate fraud. Investigatory subpoenas were issued to at least one company and one non-profit believed to have made statements minimizing the risks of climate change. 2 At the press conference, one of our colleagues noted that “[w]e are pursuing this as we would any other fraud matter.”3 We routinely investigate fraud, and have done so with many of the states present at the press conference. But this investigation is far from routine. We are unaware of any fraud case combining the following three characteristics: 1) the investigation targets a particular type of market participant; 2) the Attorneys General identify themselves with the competitors of their investigative targets; and 3) the investigation implicates an ongoing public policy debate.
All of those inaccurate predictions Gore made can be considered fraud. Recent papers show that CO2 is not a major contributer to global wsrming. Sue everyone who exaggerated the effects of CO2 under RICO. Maybe the answer is to use real scientific processes instead of models using skewed data.
If they go after Climate Alarmists and fruads then they need to go after Al Gore David Suzuki and those Greenpeace idiots and the other of these global warming/climate change hucksters
This is exactly what states need to do. This should be the example to use every time this administration oversteps its Constitutional bounds in order to shove their beliefs down our throats (see the bathroom edict). Since the other two branches of our government apparently don’t want to do their duty to keep the executive branch in check, it’ll be up to the states.
currently, how many active volcanoes on this earth? gore the fool said that all the polar bears would be gone and NYC would be underwater by 2014. better, how many private jets does he own -like the bitch hilary? the current congress wants only to suck the American tax payers dry. Time to take back this country.