We’ve gone from “we need a debate” to “shut these people up”
The Consensus Strikes Back: Climate Empire Launches Legal Assault on EPA
Yesterday, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) stormed into federal court, clutching their pearls and a 40-page complaint, to demand that the EPA and Department of Energy be stopped from—brace yourself—listening to people who don’t think “climate change” is the meteorological equivalent of Armageddon.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, reads like a mashup of Chicken Little’s autobiography and a high-school debate club’s “Appeal to Consensus” handbook. According to the plaintiffs, the great crime here is that Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright dared to assemble five well-known climate skeptics—John Christy, Judith Curry, Steven Koonin, Ross McKitrick, and Roy Spencer—to review the evidence and produce a report questioning the EPA’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding”. That’s the sacred ruling declaring greenhouse gases an official public health menace, without which the climate policy priesthood fears their altar might crumble.
The complaint is a parade of consensus incantations—“overwhelming scientific consensus,” “ocean of evidence,” “confirmed time and again”—interrupted only by ad hominem swipes at the Working Group’s résumés and reading lists. Curry, they note with horror, has criticized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for “corruption.” Koonin once worked for BP. Spencer testified on behalf of a coal company. In other words, these people are contaminated by thoughtcrime.
EDF and UCS accuse Wright’s Climate Working Group of operating in secret, holding no public meetings, stacking the deck entirely with “contrarians,” and failing to genuflect before the holy consensus. They demand the court erase the group’s report, bar EPA from using it to justify repealing the Endangerment Finding, and—naturally—extend public comment periods until the paperwork gods are appeased.
This reminds me of Scientology, where friends and relatives are hit with “disconnection”, and just cut from the lives completely of those in Scientology. But, at least Scientologists are not trying to force their cult on other people.
The Truth™ has been established; you must never question The Truth™.
By all means question the consensus. That’s the way science works. Just be honest about it.
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Energy Sec Christopher Wright is Founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, an oil field services company. No conflict there. Wright (net worth only $200 MILLION) DID resign as CEO and Chairman of the Board at Liberty.
This assemblage of global warming ‘skeptics’ is well-known. Christy and Spencer mismanaged the UAH satellite “data” to hide global warming, but have since corrected their errors.
Professor Curry “agreed that the Earth is warming, largely due to human-generated greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, and that the plausible worst-case scenario is potentially catastrophic”, but questions the certainty of the catastrophe. She declined a trump administration position at NOAA.
Economist and Professor McKitrick is skeptical of the economics of global warming. He promoted single-use plastic grocery bags to stop the spread of Covid, and that higher CO2 is a net benefit by fertilizing crops!
Spencer and McKitrick were early supporters of the reactionary evangelical Cornwall Alliance which feels the Christian God controls all. But in 2024, the Cornwall Alliance mocked Christy and Spencer for demonstrating continued warming via their corrected and calculated UAH satellite data since the satellite does NOT use thermometers! (BTW, Lord Monckton once claimed the satellites used sensitive “platinum” thermometers. Did they lower the thermometers from the stratosphere down to the troposphere? LOL).