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DoomsdaysCW Jul 26, 2023

This makes me very angry. Especially after I found out that #Koonin used to work for #BP as their "Chief Scientist"!

Hot weather does not mean climate change

Published 7/25/2023

"[W]hat if we were not in a #ClimateCrisis after all, and trillions of dollars in planned tax credits and #GreenEnergy expenditures are a misuse of taxpayer resources?

"New York University professor #StevenKoonin has presented data in his bestselling book, 'Unsettled,' to show that the science is not as settled as many politicians [???] would have us believe.

"Koonin is a respected academic physicist. He was former undersecretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy under President Barack Obama when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. His portfolio included the climate research program and energy technology. He has a bachelor of science in physics from Caltech and a doctorate in theoretical physics from MIT. Koonin taught for 30 years at Caltech and has published 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/hot-weather-does-not-mean-climate-change/ar-AA1eoe8H?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=45480af06d524324fde3d29da0f3f475&ei=5

#BPKnew #ExxonKnew #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #BigOilKnew #USGovernmentKnew

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Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.Jul 27, 2023

@DoomsdaysCW Well this helps to explain why the Obama administration did jack diddley about climate compared to what the science called for. Infested with oil & gas trolls!

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DoomsdaysCW

@aka_quant_noir

#Oil lobby's financial pressure on #Obama over Keystone XL pipeline revealed

Study shows money flowing to oil lobby ahead of decision on tar sands pipeline in the November elections

Suzanne Goldenberg, January, 2012

"Obama has until 21 February to make a decision on whether to approve the pipeline, under a compromise tax measure approved late last year. America's top oil lobbyist warned last week that the president would face "huge political consequences" if he did not sign off on the project to pump tar sands crude across the American heartland to refineries on the Texas coast.

"The Canadian government is also on the offensive, with an attack this week on 'jet-setting celebrities' opposed to tar sands pipelines. At the same time, TransCanada executives have embarked on a letter-writing campaign.

"Now Maplight, an independent research group in Berkeley, California, that tracks the influence of money in politics, has conducted an analysis of oil industry contributions to members of Congress supporting the pipeline."

#NoKXL #BigOil #NoDAPL #BigOilKnew

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jan/11/oil-lobby-money-obama-keystone

Oil lobby's financial pressure on Obama over Keystone XL pipeline revealed

Study shows money flowing to oil lobby ahead of decision on tar sands pipeline in the November elections

The Guardian