California to investigate whether Exxon Mobil lied about climate-change risks
California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris is investigating whether Exxon Mobil Corp. repeatedly lied to the public and its shareholders about the risk to its business from climate change — and whether such actions could amount to securities fraud and violations of environmental laws.
Harris' office is reviewing what Exxon Mobil knew about global warming and what the company told investors, a person close to the investigation said.
The move follows published reports, based on internal company documents, suggesting that during the 1980s and 1990s the company, then known as Exxon, used climate research as part of its planning and other business practices but simultaneously argued publicly that climate-change science was not clear cut.
Those documents were cited in stories by reporters for Columbia University Energy and Environmental Reporting Fellowship, published in partnership with the Los Angeles Times. The nonprofit InsideClimate News also published several stories based on the documents.
Shortly after the news reports, Harris' office launched the investigation in response to the findings, the person said. New York's attorney general also...
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...not becoming increasingly dependent on dangerous fossil fuels.
It invested heavily in some very, very, very, very stupid transitory technology, so called "renewable energy," with the result that the state is heavily dependent on dangerous natural gas, a product of, um, Exxon Mobile.
All the mines in China operating at full bore couldn't make so called "renewable energy" a serious form of energy in California and the default therefore is...dangerous natural gas, some of which is supplied by the top natural gas producer in the United States that would be...um...um...um:
Look who's the number 1 producer of natural gas in the US
Look what form of energy produces the most electricity in California.
A state with an official policy of embracing so called "renewable energy" has no right to complain about climate change whatsoever, since by definition, any state doing so will be forever dependent on burning dangerous fossil fuels, in particular dangerous natural gas, and dumping the waste directly, untreated and unrestrained, directly into its favorite waste dump, the planetary atmosphere.
We spent nearly two trillion bucks on this planet on so called "renewable energy" in the last decade alone, and the result is:
2015 comes in as the worst year ever observed at the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory.
Here's the evidence of how all that bullshit we've been hearing about the grand renewable energy future worked out:
A so called "renewable energy" advocate pretending to give a rat's ass about climate change would be a joke, except it's not really funny.
Enjoy the rest of the week.
