Pssst, pass it: 350.org "Petition to call on the Dept of Justice to investigate ExxonMobil"

I want to pass along this email message from the writer Bill McKibben and his 350.org group because the malicious dirty-tricks and tactical lying about what scientists have been trying to teach us is nothing less than a criminal offense against US citizens and in fact global citizens and the future.  

I'm not talking some vague future down the road either.  If you objectively look at the tempo of extreme (and increasingly destructive) weather events throughout the world, you'll recognize we are now talking about our imminent future being irreparably damaged, thanks to decades worth of "Reaganomics" inspired and greed driven strategic dirty tricks focused on misleading our leaders and the public about the critically important facts regarding what society's sky-rocketing emissions are doing to the global climate that we depend on for everything we hold near and dear.

(Followed by some videos and links to further information.)

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If only for the sake of history, let’s stand the hell up.

Petition to call on the Department of Justice to investigate ExxonMobil.

From Bill McKibben for 350.org

Dear Friends,

Earlier this morning, leaders from a wide variety of environmental and civil rights groups sent a short letter Attorney General Loretta Lynch, asking for a federal investigation of the allegations that Exxon knew that climate change was real decades ago and lied about it.

This is rare and powerful unity—I don’t remember a moment like it since the first days of the Keystone fight, when the same wide spectrum of leaders wrote a very similar letter.

But encouraging as it is to see this solidarity, the reason for it makes me bitter. Ever since I read the first exposés of Exxon’s mendacity in Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times, they’ve haunted me.

A corporation may never have done anything bigger and badder; just think how much would be different if Exxon had told the truth. We wouldn’t fully have solved global warming but we’d be well on the way—there would have been no 25 year phony pretend debate. There’d be a lot more solar panels, and a lot less carbon in the air. There'd be a lot more green jobs, and a lot fewer communities, most of them low income and communities of color, dealing with the terrible health impacts of pollution. None of you would have had to fight simply to get climate change taken seriously; instead we’d all be hard at work on solutions.¹

I think we should be angry. I don’t think we should be cynical and say ‘of course they knew.’ This behavior should shock us—it’s shocking. So can you please join us in asking the federal government to investigate Exxon?

Click here to sign a petition to call on the Department of Justice to investigate ExxonMobil.

INDEX for my Climate Science Video Collection

My first website http://citizenschallenge.blogspot.com developed into a venue that focuses primarily on Earth observations, climate science and education, whereas I started this website to focus on climate science deniers and to examine some of their ruthless attacks on rational thinking and learning.  

Since attempting to encourage serious learning by sharing authoritative sources of information is also at the heart of this website. I've decided to share some links to a series of posts where I've collected some first class climate science education videos and lectures.

Enjoy and happy learning!