State AGs, Green Groups Subpoenaed Over ‘Coordinated’ Attack on Climate Change Skeptics

cnsnews.com ^ | 7/14/2016 | Barbara Hollingsworth

[rktman]

The state attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts and eight environmental groups that have accused climate change skeptics of lying to the public are now themselves the subject of a congressional probe.

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued subpoenas to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, and the eight green groups after they missed a July 13 deadline to turn over documents related to their “coordinated” attack on climate change skeptics, chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) announced Wednesday.

The subpoenas ordered them to turn over documents “related to coordinated efforts to deprive companies, nonprofit organizations, scientists and scholars of their First Amendment rights,” according to a committee press release.

“The attorneys general have appointed themselves to decide what is valid and what is invalid regarding climate change,” Smith said at a press conference. “The attorneys general are pursuing a political agenda at the expense of scientists’ right to free speech.”

[rktman]

Well if they didn't "intend" to break the law and were "merely careless" in accidently perpetrating a fraud on the public, I guess it's probably okay. After all, it's all about saving the erf right. Don't forget that savaging deniers is on the democratic party platform for hildabama to impose sanctions on said evil deniers.

[lodi90]

They will just stonewall (delete the emails) and nobody in the GOP will do a thing about it.

[originalbuckeye]

In the end, they have to have the Just-us Dept in order to do anything against the criminals. And this Just-us Dept won’t do anything about Democrat criminals.

[Diogenesis]

Follow the $$$$$$$$, if they dare.

They won't. SSDD.

Patent 6904336 on Carbon Credits is held by Fannie Mae and the DNC.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the MSM to report it
because David Gregory's wife has been …their lawyer.

The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud (Cap-And-Trade and CCX)
Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a
climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would
make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House.”

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“Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, two of his top underlings and select
individuals in the "green" movement were inventing a patented system to trade residential carbon credits.
Patent No. 6904336 was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office on Nov. 7, 2006 --
the day after Democrats took control of Congress. Former Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H.,
criticized the award at the time, pointing out that it had "nothing to do with Fannie Mae's charter, nothing to do with making mortgages more affordable."

"It wasn't about mortgages. It was about greenbacks. The patent, which Fannie Mae confirmed it still owns with Cantor Fitzgerald subsidiary CO2e.com, gives the mortgage giant a lock on the fledgling carbon trading market, thus also giving it a major financial stake in the success of cap-and-trade legislation."

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“Here comes the next bubble -- carbon trading
Forget CDOs and other inventions of the great credit bubble. That’s all old hat.
Investment bankers are moving on to an area of securities trading that is potentially even
more lucrative, and what’s more, even has a social value – saving the planet.
….According to Mr Schapiro, carbon trading is now the fastest growing commodities
market on earth. Since Kyoto signatories bought in to the cap and trade concept in 2005,
there have been more than $300bn carbon transactions, prompting several investment
banks, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, to set up their own carbon trading desks.
But that’s just the start. If President Obama and his supporters can institute a cap-and-
trade system in the United States – and that’s a big if for this increasingly marooned
presidency – demand could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market.

And here’s the great thing about it. Unlike traditional commodities markets, which will
eventually involve delivery to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on
lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no-one. Since the market revolves around
creating carbon credits, or finding carbon reduction projects whose benefits can then be
sold to those with a surplus of emissions, it is entirely intangible.

“Carbon developers”, many of them employed by large multinationals, travel the world
in search of carbon reduction projects to sell, while firms of carbon accountants have been
established to verify on the United Nations’ behalf that those reductions are real.
The whole thing, though well intentioned, looks wide open to abuse and scams. “

[aquila48]

Great - good to see some Republicans with some spine. Give the a taste of their medicine.

[Grampa Dave]

Britain closes down global warming bureaucracy
americanthinker.com ^ | 7/15/2016 | Thomas Lifson
Posted on 7/15/2016, 6:41:42 AM by rktman

The almost unthinkable has happened. In a clear sign that the global warming fraud has peaked and is on the decline, an actual government agency has been abolished, because it was dedicated to global warming. Andrew Follett of the Daily Caller writes:

Britain’s new government abolished its Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Thursday morning, ridding the country of its global warming bureaucracy.

Officials stated that the DECC has been abolished and U.K.’s environmental policy is will be transferred to a new ministry called the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Some former DECC’s functions will be outright abolished, while others will be handed back to the new ministry.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3449639/posts

[sphinx]

Sounds like a potential RICO case to me. Probably worth billions.

[AndyJackson]

good to see some Republicans with some spine

Fool me twice. They held hearings and asked Comey and the AG some really tough questions. Those two were excoriated in the sternest possible words for all viewers of CSPAN to see and contemplate. The only thing worse would be a UN resolution deploring the conduct.

[exit82]

But wait!

Strongly worded letters to Lynch and Comey are forthcoming!! /s /puke

[Pietro]

I think you meant “extremely” careless.

[rktman]

But not ‘negligently’ careless. :)

[Pietro]

True.

Negligence, in legal parlance, requires a "ridiculously careless" designation.

[maine-iac7]

fl

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk