Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has come to Exxon’s defense — again.
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Citing Exxon Mobil’s right to “free speech,” 11 state attorneys general — all Republicans — filed in court this week to stop an investigation into the oil and gas giant’s decades-long history of climate denial.
The attorneys general — from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin — filed a brief to support Exxon’s request to stop the so-called “Exxon Knew” investigation, arguing that there is a “public policy debate” over climate change and that the investigation is an “unconstitutional abuse” of power.
“The Constitution was written to protect citizens from government witch-hunts such as this one, where officials use their authority and the threat of criminal prosecution to try and suppress speech on a viewpoint they disagree with,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.
This isn’t the first time Texas has intervened in the investigation on […]
Back in the early 90’s I was involved with a group that did a sort of healing breath work. Of the many things they taught was the idea that many of us humans have an unconscious death urge. This urge seems to drive us collectively to act in ultimately destructive ways until we can wake up enough to see/heal that pattern. It seems to play out in every human behavior. God help us know that we are the source and solution to suffering in the world. No body will save us but us.
The 97% number comes from a review of 16,000 papers. Many of those papers took no stance on whether human activity is the major cause of climate change. Of the ones that did, 97% thought humans are the problem. Whatever that number is, it hardly justifies saying that 97% of all scientists in the world support the CO2 theory.
Every day you get a demonstration of how the Sun affects temperature.
The main climate change occurring now is that erratic and violent weather is causing a lot of crop damage, and in the near term famine looms.
I would also go further than Stephan regarding the ethics of voting. Voting, of which I was formerly guilty in my earlier years, is an unethical act. By voting you give consent to human beings to use violence on other human beings to control them in the name of the state. If anyone can explain to me how this IS ethical I am willing to listen.