The Hydrocarbon Climate Police Don’t Do Science, they Do Lawfare
CDN’s John Robson offers a telling 15-minute video exposing the fake weather attribution science published in the journal, Nature to back the latest litigation efforts for ‘climate action’ against corporations, which will likely drive us all into energy poverty.
Dr. John Robson of CDN rebuts a recent study in Nature that claims to attribute responsibility for specific weather events to specific energy companies.
The Nature study links specific fossil fuel companies to global warming and extreme weather events. Robson explains why the study, and the broader practice of event attribution science, is not genuine science but a political tool designed to enable lawsuits against energy companies.
Key Points
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Attribution science as lawfare
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Claims that World Weather Attribution (WWA) methods were designed from the outset with courts in mind, citing Roger Pielke Jr. and WWA scientist Friederike Otto as evidence.
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Frames attribution as bypassing traditional scientific rigor in order to assign legal blame to companies.
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Flawed methodology and exaggeration
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Criticizes selective case studies (e.g., focusing only on regions where drought increased).
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Argues that models are tuned to convict fossil fuel companies and produce implausible precision (e.g., temperature impacts calculated to multiple decimal places).
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Suggests the claimed effect of Canadian firms (0.01°C warming over 175 years) is trivial and indistinguishable from noise.
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Historical and scientific skepticism
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Points out the lack of reliable global weather records before the mid-20th century, making claims about past heatwaves highly uncertain.
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Notes that natural climate variability (e.g., Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age) is ignored in attributing all warming to human activity.
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Criticizes the use of decimal-heavy “mathiness” as a façade of certainty.
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Media and political bias
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Accuses outlets like CBC and CTV of parroting alarmist claims uncritically.
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Frames the study as propaganda rather than neutral science, likening it to Lysenkoism or show trials.
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Call to fossil fuel companies
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Urges Canadian and global energy companies to stop appeasing critics, defend their role in sustaining modern life, and reject claims that their products are destroying the planet.
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Warns that activists intend to use “pseudoscience” and litigation to bankrupt the industry, leaving societies vulnerable to energy povertySarcastic, combative, and highly skeptical of mainstream climate science.
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Robson portrays the Nature study as pseudo-scientific propaganda crafted to justify lawsuits against energy companies, argues that the claimed impacts are negligible and scientifically unsound, criticizes media complicity, and calls on fossil fuel firms to stop conceding ground.
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