{"id":427905,"date":"2026-02-25T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427905"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:51:02","slug":"the-camels-nose-sorta-under-the-kentucky-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427905","title":{"rendered":"The Camel\u2019s Nose (sorta) Under the Kentucky Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Russell Cook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who haven\u2019t caught it, please see my updated count<\/a> of the \u201cExxonKnew\u201d lawsuits. Now, at least for today, there are 29 instead of 30. The ineptly done Carrboro v Duke Energy<\/em> is gone<\/a>, as of last week. It was nice how the judge issuing that order<\/a> alluded to Duke Energy\u2019s Motion to Dismiss gripe about a particular \u201cKentucky\u201d disinformation ad accusation<\/a>, but I submit the small exploration done by Duke Energy\u2019s attorneys revealed only the proverbial \u2018camel\u2019s nose under the tent<\/a>.\u2019 When the fossil fuel industry folks with influence grow a spine and explore much deeper<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 or when somebody ends up doing their work for them \u2013 every one of the \u201cExxonKnew\u201d lawsuits can implode, enabling the public to see where the real disinformation has been in the climate issue this entire time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right at the outset of my Dec 2024 dissection of Carrboro<\/em><\/a>, I said it was an outlier climate lawfare effort, and I detailed at length how the law firm representing the town very oddly decided to rely on the worthless evidence<\/a> from an outfit called \u201cEnergy and Policy Institute,\u201d for the accusations about Duke Energy running old disinformation campaigns which \u2018attempted to reposition global warming as theory<\/em>.\u2019 Notice in the screencapture below, the lawsuit tried to tie Duke to the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) via that worthless<\/a> \u2018leaked industry directive\u2019, and then say Duke was responsible for the campaign effort in Kentucky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I showed in my dissection \u2013 which I advise new readers to go through to be up to speed on what I say here \u2013 that was weird for the law firm to do that<\/a> at several levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeating what I noted above in my opening paragraph, Duke Energy\u2019s Motion to Dismiss<\/a> pointed out the North Carolina<\/strong> town of Carrboro was trying to an ad campaign that happened in Kentucky<\/strong> to Duke Energy. To his own credit, the judge granting the Motion pointed out just how \u201cfatally imprecise and lacking in concreteness<\/a>\u201d the overall accusation was about Duke \u2018deceiving the public,\u2019 but he only glanced off of the ludicrous accusation about the Kentucky \u2018deception\u2019 campaign. The one with the horse ad, as I showed in my dissection post<\/a>. My GelbspanFiles blog is the one and only place where readers can quickly zoom in on the ad text<\/a> and see for themselves<\/a> how there\u2019s no actual deliberate deception going on by an energy company about climate science. And see how the Edison Electric Institute had no actual involvement<\/em><\/a> in the genuine ad campaign seen by the public. None<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too bad neither the judge nor Duke Energy pursued that fatal fault to any depth at all. The core claim that Duke is intimate with the internal workings<\/a> of the Edison Electric Institute would be a stretch difficult to prove absolutely true; but the plaintiffs fail abysmally to present even the most basic of prima facie<\/em><\/a> cases that EEI spearheaded a disinformation campaign \u2013 their \u2018evidence\u2019 implodes in their faces<\/a>. Worse, as I noted in my dissection of Carrboro<\/em>, the filing\u2019s use of three newspaper advertorials which the Western Fuels Association\u2019s \u201cInformation Council for the Environment\u201d PR campaign published fatally undercuts<\/a> all of the other lawsuits which rely on two never-published<\/em><\/strong><\/a> ads ( \u2013 never-published<\/a>!<\/em> \u2013 and another horribly degraded photocopy of one that was<\/em> published) sourcing from Greenpeace USA ne\u00e9 Ozone Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the assortment<\/a> of \u2018spin<\/a>\u2019 that this case was something unique, it was absolutely nothing more than another in a string of meritless lawsuits claiming an energy company \u2018knew\u2019 about the harm of global warming, but sought to hide that knowledge\u2019 by deceptively \u2018repositioning global warming\u2019 in the eyes of the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duke Energy dodged a bullet courtesy of the maladroit handling by Carrboro<\/em>\u2018s chosen law firm, but this dismissal won\u2019t prevent new versions of these from being regurgitated in some other \u2018novel\u2019 way. The January 23, 2026 Michigan v BP<\/em> lawsuit was also described as \u2018novel\u2019<\/a> \u2026 but predictably<\/a>, it was nothing more than the same old predictable regurgitation<\/a> about crooked skeptic scientists employed in industry-orchestrated disinfo campaigns. It\u2019s the literal best the enviro-activist climate lawfare mob has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will stop the moment someone with major influence and power shoves \u2013 to use the allegory I started with here \u2013 the Carrboro<\/em> nose harder under the tent, then keeps on pushing and ultimately drives a dagger through the heart of the central accusations for all the world to see \u2013 Exxon et al<\/em>. didn\u2019t know, and they never declared<\/a> \u201cVictory will be achieved when we pay Dr Wei-Hock Soon $1.2 million to reposition global warming as theory (not fact) via deceptive newspaper advertorials<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who haven\u2019t caught it, please see my updated count of the \u201cExxonKnew\u201d lawsuits. Now, at least for today, there are 29 instead of 30. The ineptly done Carrboro v Duke Energy is gone, as of last week. It was nice how the judge issuing that order alluded to Duke Energy\u2019s Motion to Dismiss gripe about a particular \u201cKentucky\u201d disinformation ad accusation, but I submit the small exploration done by Duke Energy\u2019s attorneys revealed only the proverbial \u2018camel\u2019s nose under the tent.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":427912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829604,691841630,691841629,691822713,691818087],"class_list":{"0":"post-427905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-lawsuits","9":"tag-duke-energy","10":"tag-energy-and-policy-institute","11":"tag-exxonknew","12":"tag-global-warming","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AQM3-f6_8QRfQzmbqmoPou-h4suKFPdMXLfBJfCLpWxUD36yuEhKbTqDaBDLRP4cQBQoJO5hUJlZPeMmQJuj0Y-2X1PeBzU5oYfviTxs2K0K73Hn_5oICC_K5Cq7DbcLODNfHWl9bHgRJ2IEYDfRLXujb0Mkjw.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1NjH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":336007,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=336007","url_meta":{"origin":427905,"position":0},"title":"The Political Suicide of Pushing \u201cClimate Homicide\u201d \u2026 & muscling in on someone else\u2019s \u201cExxonKnew\u201d lawsuits territory?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/07\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"On June 26th just a little over a week ago, David \u201cclimate homicide\u201d Arkush and co-authors at his Public Citizen group put out a press release titled \u201cNew Memo Details Legal Case for Prosecuting Big Oil for Extreme Heat Deaths,\u201d containing a link to a 51 page proposal for prosecutors\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Big Oil\"","block_context":{"text":"Big Oil","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=big-oil"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0-Exxonknew.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0-Exxonknew.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0-Exxonknew.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0-Exxonknew.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0-Exxonknew.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":431711,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=431711","url_meta":{"origin":427905,"position":1},"title":"SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case on Colorado Dispute over Climate Change; (it should throw that case and all the others out)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"16\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t just write about these things, I try to get something done. 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