News of this First, while it’s amusing that the top three reports about this lawsuit listed at Sher Edling’s Media News page<\/a> had publication times within two or three hours of the official filing of the lawsuit, such law firms working on cases with international importance probably tip particular reporters who’d write favorably about the cases. Imagine being a local food reporter<\/a> who narrowly misses out top billing status<\/a> to a UK newspaper in this situation.<\/p>\n CLN’s report, barely 24 hours \u2014 or possibly even less<\/a> \u2014 after the lawsuit was publicly filed may be a result of the CLN organization itself being a Twitter follower of Sher Edling’s Twitter news<\/a>, along with another principal person behind CLN, Alyssa Johl<\/a>. But the problems start after this point. Who is the other main person behind CLN? Kert Davies<\/a>. He isn’t just some reporter at a newspaper or online news site, however. His Climate Files website<\/a> has an appearance of being created as a source site which these global warming lawsuits can refer to in their court case filings<\/a>, or at their website pages<\/a>, and Davies’ efforts to portray skeptic climate scientists as ‘paid shills’ of the fossil fuel industry date all the way back<\/a> to the time when that accusation gained its first real media traction in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n But wait, there’s more, regarding this specific PCFFA v. Chevron<\/em> lawsuit and Davies’ connections. The PCFFA organization wasn’t mute on the global warming issue prior to this lawsuit, they’ve actually spoken about the IPCC\/Al Gore side<\/a> of it for years. Among those is their March 2007 “Global Climate Change and the Fishing Industry<\/a>” page, where their source<\/a> for the notion that oil companies used Tobacco industry tactics to dupe the public is a Union of Concerned Scientists report. Who was specifically thanked by the UCS in their<\/em> report? Kert Davies \u2026.. along with Naomi Oreskes \/ Erik Conway, Peter Frumhoff and James McCarthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n See how one problem leads to multiple other problems? These aren’t something you’d find surrounding a food reporter’s boss. But, let’s get back to this latest PCFFA v. Chevron<\/em> lawsuit.<\/p>\nPCFFA lawsuit filing<\/del><\/a> [10\/12\/20 Author’s addition<\/span>: the PDF file name changed from “Crab-complaint” to “PCFFA-Complaint”, necessitating a new weblink<\/a>]<\/em> came up two weeks ago at Energy in Depth: “Latest Sher Edling Climate Lawsuit Further Exposes Anti-Energy Activist Network<\/a>.” Others, such as Climate Liability News (CLN: “Commercial Fishermen Sue Fossil Fuel Industry for Climate Impacts<\/a>“) covered it differently without mentioning any questionable items about the situation. What are the problems with this particular boilerplate lawsuit? Let me count the ways:<\/p>\n\n
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