It’s the end of this year…
A proper accounting is needed.
Who’s been nice and who’s been naughty is good for you to know.
So no need to wait any longer anxiously for the dirty dozen EP awards.
The climate dunce awards for the twelve worst climate offenders this year… goes to the happy rich campers bellow.
This dirty dozen climate dunce award isn’t a ticket to paradise or hell…
It’s just a little gentle nudge to move these folks to a better thought, action and speech equilibrium.
A bit of healthy criticism and a simple reminder that it’s easier for a camel to get through the eye of the needle than one of them to get into heaven.
Because regardless of the current ”snowmaggedon” 2010 has been the hottest year on record. Or at least one of the top three hottest years ever.
Maybe it’s the hottest year within the hottest decade on record.
And in the hottest century to boot…
Climate Change is all around us.
Even the current seemingly cold weather snap in Northern Europe manifest climate change…
Extreme weather, sudden deadly storms and famines with human starvation are increasing on every continent.
This goes on as warming climate causes widespread forest fires all over.
Major toxic pollution and acid rain kills temperate forests, agriculture and animal industry along side timber miners and palm oil plantations and beetles devour all of our rainforests and even the boreal forests retreat in front of liquid coal extraction and shale gas.
Our seas are becoming sporadically anoxic, fish stocks disappear and ocean acidification causes jellyfish exclusively to rule the seas.
The conservative Met Office’s Hadley Centre, predicts 4 C degrees warming by 2050 and 6 degree Celsius, surface warming by 2100, with far more than that over the land…
Much more heat increases are predicted around the equator and the poles at the ends of the earth.
It’s time for a wake up call.
A time to change.
Alter our course and survive.
Adapt and Live.
Harnessing the forces of Nature becomes irresistible to power our lives.
With enough renewable technology at our disposal we are able to live on and use renewable energy in a growing economy.
Yet idiotically we are clinging on to fossil fuel burning to foster our economy while firing up the planet.
Why?
Inertia, the status quo, energy concerns, and the wealthy oil and coal people are the ones to blame.
The killer businessmen and especially their investors who pour Billions into their dirty and profitable businesses.
Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Massey, Peabody and Goldman Sachs bankers to the Coal lobby and their like along with their investors, are profitable because they treat the atmosphere as an open sewer and pay nought for polluting the Climate Commons and ruining your Lives. And so are the keen investors on fossil fuels and the equally profitable oil businesses. Same as businesses who profited from Germany’s heinous crimes of genocide these modern Nazis are profiting from Ecocide.
So here comes the dirty Dozen: Twelve apostles of gloom & doom for the environment.
These are last year’s Climate crooks for whom we award the Dirty Dozen Climate dunce awards.
A dozen bad eggs. The really dirty dozen bellow have easily identifiable profiles for the cocktail party circuit and can serve as an easy Bucket list. A cream pie target list of twelve people to offer pie in the face before you die. Especially in this holiday season where Chandilly creme is all over…
And the twelve stoodges bellow are some of the hardest working evil doers, because they play up the destruction of the planet as a very profitable business, while lulling the people to sleep in a fast warming planet.
They are paired because they need sidekicks who help greatly to bounce off their bullshit… from each other and see what sticks.
These dozen people are insidious because they represent themselves as some of the most high profile good doers. Yet apparently they serve another master. They only really serve their insane need for wealth accumulation and self service, damn the People and the Earth.
Bad things come in pairs. So do bad people… and these come in a handy dozen.
Think man, think, for these folks are screwing you daily:
1) & 2) David and Charles Koch of Koch Petroleum Industries [With a combined $100 billion annual income, they are the Top anti-climate PR & propaganda spenders, ahead of Shell and Exxon and BP combined. The recent US Supreme Court uncapping of Corporate political contributions opened up their avalanche of cash to all climate denier politicians and causes. All of their Climate denying spending is secret because their company is private and doesn't publish open transparent public accounts like public companies do]: Even greater liars than their father Fred, who founded the John Birch Society and railed against communist plots while profiting from the oil refineries he built for Stalin. Koch business operations include coal mining, stealing oil from Indian reservations, pipelines and refineries for Canadian Tar Sands oil, and formaldehyde soaked wood from forest clearcuts. Wherever there’s filth and destruction the boys are on it, like flies on bullshit. In the last year, it is estimated that the Kochs spent more than $65 million on PR and Propaganda to fool people into comfort in the present climate warming. They are responsible for financing the East Anglia University break in and subsequent PR brouhaha that incapacitated the Copenhagen COP15 and the subsequent Cancun UN meetings. And they do this PR evil by spreading the ludicrous message that our best earth scientists are just unethical fear mongers, who use “climate change” to usher in a World Government, and use the issue of climate to enlarge their self import, when they speak of our need to stop global warming. Discrediting climate scientists causes a believing public to rest in comfort and not act to force their government into action against the worst effects of it.
3) & 4) Gregory Boyce, Peabody Coal CEO and David Lesar, Halliburton CEO: Along with their corporate governing Boards, investors and shareholders, surely this pair are two of the most malignant men of the 21st century. Boyce’s mission in life is to see that the world turns brown full of smog and it burns as much coal as possible, in spite of scientists’ warnings that this path is already heating the planet and destroying life. Both pay lobbyists to fight regulation of coal plants’ emissions of cancer-causing mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. Boyce claims that the vast amount of CO2 emissions from coal plants can somehow be sequestered and stored. He hedges against eventual regulation of US coal plants by developing export markets to Third World countries, then pretends that he’s doing it to help the poor. Believes that the interests of Peabody stockholders and executives are far more important than starvation, death, and species extinction. In addition to running Peabody, Boyce helps to coordinate efforts by coal trade groups, utilities, and the Chamber of Commerce to help them continue to poison the atmosphere. His evil twin, Lesar though, oversees Haliburton, a company whose main missions are to bribe politicians, cause and execute wars, screw taxpayers, and subcontract DoD work to the lowest, most incompetent bidder. Faulty work by subsidiary KBR in Iraq led to the electrocution of US soldiers while they were taking showers. The electrocutions were free of charge but Haliburton charges $45 a case for Coca Cola in Iraq and $100 for a load of laundry. Halliburton knowingly used faulty mud and sea water type cement, as an adhesive oil well blockage on the Deepwater Horizon, which was a major cause of the explosion. Yet such is their pull in Washington DC that the Obama administration is handing them ”no bid contracts” even though they moved their headquarters to Dubai. Halliburton’s main conduit is the Defense Department which in reality is the largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world. Thus the Gulf explosion was part of the company’s secondary operations. Capturing other countries oil field wealth along with killing their citizens and causing environmental mayhem are their main business lines of interest. Everything else is a subsidiary interest to that…
5) & 6) Harold Lewis and Freeman Dyson [The duo have been paid plenty, and are feted as celebrities in climate denier fests hosted by"think tanks" like CEI, Cato, and Heartland]: Back in the 1950′s, these two were respected physicists. Now, in the modern age, they’ve been inexplicably gripped by senility and defected to the anti-science camp. Dyson finally showed his worth to the oil boys by posing as a wise elder, warning about “alarmist” climate science for the New York Times magazine in ’08, leading to six figure stipends, 5 star hotel rooms and fine meals while addressing denier conferences. Not to be out-done, Lewis emerged from 35 years of hiding among Santa Barbara Alzheimer residents to mouth off about Climategate saying: “Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life.” Of course the regressive media didn’t notice that they weren’t earth or climate scientists and hadn’t published any scientific papers for five decades, but they became the darlings of Fox news and Glenn Beck giving boost to the idea that climate deniers are all semi-senile in dire need of medical help for their damaged mental health. They are in fact crying out for help…
7) & 8) Stewart Brand along with Ted Nugent, another brain-fried ’60s pot-smoking entertainer [They are paid by Global Business Network, Nuclear lobby and Fox news Glenn Beck, plenty $ to speak in favour of Fossil Fuels, Big Nuclear and Corporate fiscal America. They are paid from the GBN corporate consulting firm, which counts among its clients next-gen nuclear developers GE, Bechtel, Duke Power and Westinghouse and by Massey Coal, National Rifle Association, Republican Party, and old people with terrible taste in music and a nasty bad habit of hallucinogenic consumption otherwise known as old fart stoners]: Stewart wrecked any remaining street cred from his stint as a Merry Prankster and ’60s tepee and patchouli oil Whole Earth Catalog heavy bong hitter and jacuzzi pot smoker. He tours the US countryside with a Power Point presentation, and a marijuana bag, trying to persuade people that nuclear power is going to save us from global warming. He apparently doesn’t know that Nuclear doesn’t make sense at any price even when fully subsidized by the US government. He also missed the memo that nuclear costs at least $7 million a megawatt, and insurance beyond the federal US government guarantee is not available by anyone including Black Rock or AIG. Stewart constantly cites bad data, He waves around blank sheets of paper, he bullshits about nuclear waste disposal technology and now, he’s even for “clean coal” and liquid coal from the Albertan tar sands. Nugent who headed a psychedelic band in the ’60s can be found today, touring the backwaters of the US in military style fatigues and howling “suck my machine gun, Obama.” He hangs out with the stupidest FOX news show hosts, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and he celebrates with Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship. Ted even played guitar and sang at Massey Coal’s 2009 mountaintop removal celebration [???]. A sad affair billed as Friends of America mountain top removal in Virginia where james Hansen and the Catholic nuns were arrested when demonstrating against this sad defacing of America’s mountains. Ted’s brain drain is apparently unstoppable the same as Stewart Brand’s. Ted Nugent’s simpleton mind inner workings, are evidenced when he said: ”Our problems in Iraq are caused by the fact that we decided not to Nagasaki them.” He is a fitting pal for Stewart Brandt and if they can ”rope in” Sarah Palin, they can take the stage and tour as the Three ”smart” Stooges and find fame all over again. In a parallel Universe…
9) & 10) Anthony Watts and Edward Wegman [Paid by Koch petroleum and Big oil and coal companies who support them. Also paid by pro-smoking "researchers" and PR hacks at the Heartland Institute, and other far Right ''think tank'' money, originating from Koch Industries, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and Peabody Coal]: “The Hockey Stick is Broken” Watts exclaimed to wide applause by the climate idiots. He went unabated and with Lord Moncton fish eyed retard and Wedgie Wegman weatherman, attacked science and activists. Broken stick… Really? The hockey stick has been duplicated in over 20 charts from climate scientists, and vindicated in an exhaustive study by the National Academy of Sciences. But still Watts became an overnight sensation, and went from small time local TV weatherman to a climate “expert,” constantly attacking scientific reports for groupthink, grant-seeking greed, and phony data. Sent his minions to photograph those US temperature stations which he claimed were too close to heat sinks, skewing temperature readings. He forgot to say that Climate wasn’t his field and he wasn’t even a scientist at all. Just a TV weatherman. Even NOAA was fooled enough and decided to take him up on his fraudulent claims and analyzed the temperature data from all 1218 sites, and found no evidence of bias or distortion. Watts instantly began shouting, “Climategate!” about the Koch oil company e-burglary and PR manufactured controversy. A PR hack controversy, which ultimately offered no evidence of scientific wrongdoing by the climate Unit of East Anglia University but managed to shift the world’s focus towards the climate deniers. And here it gets interesting because in comes Wegman’s statistics from George Mason University in Virginia which receives financial support from Koch and other dirty companies, who in 2006 was enlisted by Texas Republican congressional denier “Smokey” Joe Barton to disprove anthropogenic global warming. “The Wegman Report,” billed as an “independent” analysis, was actually based on source material provided by a Barton staffer. Despite the affront to scientific rigor, his work attained iconic status on wacky denier blogs. And in the blogosphere is now known as ”Wegman’s wedgie.” The Wegman Report has been thoroughly deconstructed by John Mashey at Deep Climate, who found it to be full of plagiarized sections, distorted data and unwarranted conclusions. This was too much even for George Mason, so Wegman is currently under formal investigated by his own university, but with so much cash pouring in from the big Coal, he isn’t worried where his meal ticket is coming from….
11) & 12) Bill Gates and Warren Buffet [Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway, with many $ Billions in income, much of it tax sheltered through the Gates Foundation]: Fast friends who engage in a vicious bridge style game competition to see who ends up with the most expensive coffin. Flew together to see & buy and invested in the Alberta Tar Sands. Gates and Buffett, said they favour investing in the Canadian oil tar-sands because they offer a secure supply of oil for the United States. They visited the booming Albertan tar sands ”liquid coal” hub and invested there afterwards. They caused a jump in the value of Canadian tar sands stocks by more than 8% immediately after they put in their chips in the tar and feather energy climate con. Now they are looking to add strategically more coal mines and rail investments to enhance Buffet’s $34 billion Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal-hauling railroad acquisition and the Gates Foundation’s massive Nigerian oil portfolio. Gates is also a big Nuclear proponent hoping that one day we all have a nuclear plant in our backyard. Very much like PN in the spirit of the PC. He is also dumping secretly loads of cash into geo-engineering. He supports this as Planet B and as a way to “hack” the climate [Plan B], and thus go on and screw the poor instead of getting off oil and coal. The duo while making masses of profits from dirty fuels, insist that the government should be responsible for clean energy development, but that we don’t need to bother the Energy companies such as the Power & Utility behemoths, but rather we should tax the citizens in order to pay for it. They can’t be bothered to change their fiscal focus and appetite for fossil profits, because they’re too busy making money investing on such sure things like coal and other fossil fuels and dumping shit in the atmosphere, killing the world’s children.
Maybe they should go see the result of their handiwork and go work for a day, a month, or a year in a Darfuri camp or a South Sudan rural health clinic to see, feel and really taste the relationship between fossil fuels, climate change and people’s lives.
These dirty dozen individuals are our misguided friends and we hope that this award could serve as constructive criticism that will help them to make wiser choices as they move onwards in Life.
Because for all their narrow minded, short term, misguided self interest, or alternatively, for their greed, and profit driven crimes and high misdemeanors we award the dirty dozen people above the meritorious climate dunce awards.
There are many more nastier climate deniers out there, but these ones take the cake, because they claim to be publicly minded in their misinformation campaigns.
Therefore like all Quislings, they are doubly dangerous…
Shame them, inform them of their being unhelpful and most importantly combat them on every level of public discourse…
These high-profile people are handsomely rewarded to screw up climate for all of us.
They profit from your own destruction.
The Climate deniers, are all looking after their own narrow self interests.
When are you gonna look after your own self interest and rock their world?
Make it costly for them to bullshit you.
Make them pay for their egregious crime of truth omissions and outright lies.
Go after them with a vengeance and make your mark.
Yours,
Pano
PS:
Happy New Year
