From Watts Up With That?

From Climate Litigation Watch

Is AP short for “Acquired Propaganda”?

CLW readers have kept current on the judicial “training” machine that the plaintiffs’ bar and its affiliated academics and NGO activists quickly assembled after two 2018 losses in federal court by the climate litigation industry. Background to these “trainings”—currently a hot topic, first reported here in May and then October 2021, and ever since—has been further illustrated in productions from, in particular, the University of Oregon (see, e.g., here), Oregon State University (here, here and here), and University of Washington (here, here, here and here). The latter has just given us yet another “they are who we thought they were” exhibit.

UW Prof. Kristie Ebi was recruited by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to serve on the outside-reviewer team of NASEM’s “expedited” and (as GAO pointed out in comments) activist-laden (“inherently conflicted to the point of absurdity”) NASEM advocacy effort to keep in place the climatistas’ domestic Holy Grail. That is the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which we all now know was pre-cooked by activists who were then set loose in government to advance an agenda.

UW’s unbiased, chin-stroking searcher-of-truths was concurrently working with members of the climate-plaintiffs’ team—from the group known as the “lawyers advising Rockefeller family fund” to activist/expert witnesses paraded in front of judges recruited to swanky locales to hear (and be swayed by) the plaintiffs’ side (and only the plaintiffs’ side) of things,.

Late last year another priority emerged, which was to undermine the Red Team-ing the Endangerment Finding by leading scientists assembled by the Department of Energy, which brought to light original omissions and developments since 2009. This also launched an emergency to counter it with the “objective,” taxpayer-funded NASEM effort now the subject of, inter alia, congressional scrutiny.

Regarding mostly the former, but reflecting very poorly on the latter as well, are a series of records just obtained by Government Accountability & Oversight that also remind us of the advocacy role assumed on these issues by media outlets, from CNN and CBS which aired and even housed plaintiffs’-team advisers for on-air “climate” content, to other legacy outlets whose foundations are eating with both hands from activist donor foundations, to the clumsier Associated Press (Patient Zero in the foundations’ occupation of purportedly news outlets, even one of the “fact-checkers” assembled by Facebook to keep control of the narrative). 

AP of course was on its deathbed less than a decade ago when the climate-activist foundations jumped in with millions. Read into that what you will. CLW reads the same thing Ebi lets on to.

Read the latest correspondence here.

Gee, who knew?