Big Greens Dirty Power
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Big Green is big business. The global renewable
energy market is estimated at over $600 billion.
Obama’s stimulus boondoggle alone blew around $50
billion on green energy. Annual spending is
somewhere around $39 billion a year and that’s just
the tip of the Big Green iceberg.
California
carbon auctions are climbing into the billions. And
the endgame is a national and a global
carbon tax that will allow Big Green to take money
out of the pockets of every single human being.
Environmentalism isn’t a hippie with a cardboard
sign. It’s multinational corporations and big banks.
It’s environmental consultants padding the bill for
every government project. It’s subsidies that get
carved up ten different ways into highly profitable
investments at taxpayer expense. It’s brand
greenwashing and useless recycling programs. It’s a
dime, a dollar or a hundred dollars added to every
bill.
Big Green is booming business. But it can’t succeed
on its own. Without public policy based on the hoax
that the planet is going to be destroyed unless Big
Green gets more green cash, the scam collapses.
Even as the science behind the conspiracy theory
that claims humans are warming the planet continues
to fall apart, Big Green is escalating its crackdown
on climate science. If you are going to falsely
claim that 99.99% of scientists agree with you, the
best way to ensure that is by criminalizing
scientific dissent.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for punishing and
imprisoning dissenters. Bill Nye endorsed such a
call just last week. And while it’s easy to dismiss
Kennedy and Nye as famous crackpots, Attorney
General Loretta Lynch admitted that there had been
discussions about prosecuting climate dissenters.
And that materials had been passed along to the FBI.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, New York
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and 14 other
Democratic attorney generals have begun working the
more profitable corporate angle by targeting Exxon
Mobil, hoping to cut off researchers and activists
from their funding.
The agenda was blatantly on parade right from the
start at a press conference of attorney generals
under the banner of “AG’s United for Clean Power”.
Imagine a group of attorney generals banding
together under the name “AG’s United for Pepsi” to
sue Coca Cola. That’s exactly what this was. The
attorney generals were announcing that they are
targeting one industry on behalf of a rival
industry.
The Big Green group of prosecutors was launched by
Al Gore, whose Big Green investments have made him a
very rich man. Gore is the chairman of Generation
Investment Management, a UK investment management
firm that focuses on environmental investments. Its
funds are valued at $7.3 billion. Gore’s
Inconvenient Truth ecohoax flick was financed by the
head of the Capricorn Investment Group. Al Gore
invests in Green Energy and then runs campaigns
urging government Green investments.
Now Gore has moved beyond that blatant conflict of
interest to trying to criminalize rival industries.
So have the attorney generals who in addition to
investigating climate critics will also lobby for
more money for Big Green. Massachusetts Attorney
General Maura Healey announced that she will work
“to speed our transition to a clean energy future”.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring declared that
he wanted to “encourage the growth of our clean
energy sectors”. Illinois Attorney General Lisa
Madigan didn’t even bother pretending that she
wasn’t there as an industry lobbyist. Instead she
announced that she wanted to “advocate for a
comprehensive portfolio of renewable energy
sources”.
Al Gore does have quite the “comprehensive
portfolio”.
We’ve gone way beyond mere lobbying here. This is an
industry group of attorney generals vowing to shut
down one industry on behalf of another. This is how
abusively corrupt Big Green has become.
But beyond targeting industries, this is a coalition
dedicated to targeting ideas.
Big Green and its big Democratic backers claim that
they are only targeting industries. Their goal is to
bankrupt gas and oil just like they bankrupted coal,
leaving Americans with no choice except overpriced
and unreliable Big Green energy. But their targets
aren’t just industries and the people who work for
them. They have their sights set on eliminating
dissenting ideas that make their fraud possible.
The campaign against Exxon Mobil seeks to treat the
funding of dissenting ideas about Global Warming as
fraud. It’s impossible to escape the Galilean
implications of climate heresy trials in such a
move. But the subpoena against the Competitive
Enterprise Institute targets critics of Big Green’s
climate fraud more directly and is a major step in
the suppression of free speech.
If Big Green’s attorney generals are allowed to get
away with claiming that funding speech critical of
Big Green’s Global Warming ecoscam is fraud, then
the next step is treating the speech itself as
fraud. Targeting companies like Exxon Mobil allows
the 16 Big Green AGs to look like they’re taking on
a corporation when what they’re actually doing is
taking on critics of their corrupt Green industry.
The impetus for this particular campaign appears to
have come from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund which
announced in 2014 that it was “divesting” from
fossil fuels and switching to Big Green investments.
Then the Rockefellers hosted a major push targeting
Exxon and calling for divestment and a carbon tax. A
few months earlier, Al Gore had been warning
investors at the Paris Climate Conference to abandon
traditional energy investments and join Big Green or
lose all their money.
The profiteering and the conflicts of interest are
obvious. So is the corruption. But this campaign
shows that the wealth of men like Gore or the
Rockefellers isn’t only going to be built on
crushing coal miners, depriving the elderly of heat
in the winter and running up energy costs for
working families. It also requires silencing and
suppressing those people still willing to speak out
against the Big Green fraud.
There’s nothing natural about our “transition” to
Big Green. It’s the greatest financial fraud of our
time. It makes no sense either economically or
technologically. Instead Big Green profiteers had to
invent a crisis, lie about the science, shake down
governments and bribe everyone in sight. If the sky
isn’t falling and the ice hasn’t vanished, as Al
Gore claimed, then Big Green loses all its big wads
of green cash.
And so Big Green has carved out its targets. Its
allied politicians will hit any company that donates
to actual climate investigations. While Exxon is an
obvious target, the same legal arguments can be made
against any company that would stand to lose money
from Big Green’s victory. And that’s every company
that isn’t already part of Big Green. Which is
certainly convenient for Big Green.
Any conservative group that still questions
Warmunism can be pursued. As can individuals. Mark
Steyn is still battling the Mann lawsuit. Dr.
Timothy Ball was sued by various politicians and
officials. Such lawsuits are meant to suppress
criticism of Big Green and its allies. Conservative
organizations and think tanks will be forced to
declare the topic off limits. Single issue groups
will have their funding targeted, their experts sued
and eventually their organizations dismantled by Big
Green’s pet prosecutors.
And beyond lawsuits lies the shadow of the prison
door.
The left is a fundamentally totalitarian movement.
History is filled with examples that make it
difficult for us to dismiss rhetoric about “locking
up” critics as an empty threat. There is too much
money and ideology depending on Big Green’s
unsustainable greed. Big Green’s big investors are
riding a tiger. They can’t get off or they’ll be
eaten alive. They have no choice but to destroy
their rivals and theirs critics.
And ordinary people, from coal miners to working
families to scientists, have no choice but to
resist.