Global Scams won’t go away until Cult Victims
recover from their brainwashing. The “Climate Change” crowd is back and the
Scam-Masters are funding Democrats for the November 2018 elections.
Government for Hire? Emails Show ‘Climate Industry’
Funds Jobs in Offices of Governors, Attorneys General by Kevin Mooney, 9/11/18,
Daily Signal.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is host of a
three-day “Global Climate Action Summit” in San Francisco organized by an
“activist donor network” that has burrowed into state government agencies, a
climate change skeptic says in a new report.
Chris Horner,
a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is the author of two
reports detailing how a well-endowed “climate industry” steers donor money
through nonprofit organizations into the offices of state governors and
attorneys general.
The relationship between governors and
environmental activists who are using governors’ offices to advance the climate
change agenda of certain donors is the subject of a report by
Horner released Tuesday by CEI, a libertarian think tank in Washington.
“A particular theme slated for the San
Francisco event is that President Trump’s promise to withdraw from the Paris
climate treaty is isolating the United States from what is otherwise and
elsewhere a doable, successful, and economically beneficial adoption of this
agenda,” Horner writes.
The new report highlighting Brown, a
Democrat, builds on Horner’s report last
month describing how these same special interests work with compliant state
attorneys general.
It views the actions of Brown in
California as a case study, examining how elected officials and other political
figures allow their offices to be used to pursue climate change policies that
conform with the international accord known as the Paris Agreement.
Government officials around the world
negotiated the agreement in Paris as part of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change in 2015. The agreement calls on countries to
combat the perceived threat of climate change by working to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions.
In June 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from
the Paris Agreement, which he said “disadvantages the United States to the
exclusive benefit of other countries.”
Brown’s San Francisco summit, set for
Wednesday through Friday, places a strong emphasis on opposition to Trump’s
policies, Horner writes:
Trump vowed
to withdraw from the Paris Agreement because it is in reality a costly and
ineffectual solution to the alleged climate crisis, it mostly directs resources
to politically favored industries, and it harms disfavored ones. For similar
reasons, the climate industry is dedicated to reversing Trump’s not yet
consummated decision.
A major
component of its campaign is claiming momentum toward Paris’s goals and
rebutting the history of economic and social costs involved in implementing the
policies that Paris demands. Implementation of the Paris agenda requires
domestic policies, and implementing those policies is the principal objective
of the campaign detailed in this paper.
The Daily Signal sought comment from
Brown’s office on the new report, but had not received a response at
publication time.
The California governor’s three-day
summit comes with a budget of $10 million made possible through the support of
individuals, foundations, governments and business, according to Horner’s
report. The nonprofits involved “take a handsome percentage for serving as
middlemen,” it says.
Emails obtained from open-records
requests indicate that politicians are making use of nonprofits and consultants
as “pass-throughs for donors to support politicians with resources that the
relevant legislatures will not provide and that donors cannot legally provide
directly,” Horner’s report says.
The email records describe privately
funded staff members placed in governor’s offices as “refugees” from the Obama
administration who are working to reposition U.S. policy on climate and energy
to conform with their preferred policies.
Horner, author of a 2007 book called “The Politically Incorrect Guide
to Global Warming and Environmentalism,”
raises several questions in the new report in response to what he uncovered:
Are the
donors going to such lengths to avoid 1) directly placing consultants in
governors’ offices or 2) giving the money to do so directly to those offices,
because they are barred from such placement? If so, why is this permissible? Or
is the effort creating middlemen all merely due to appearances? Why do we find
participants misleading or telling outright falsehoods when questioned about
what we have found? And the
biggest issue of all is, does this represent government for hire?
The “off-the-book” operations detailed
in the emails call out for legislative oversight to determine whether they
violate state laws, Horner concludes.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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