{"id":9426,"date":"2019-12-07T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2024-05-14T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:37:55","slug":"what-naomi-didnt-say-sharon-sheldon-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=9426","title":{"rendered":"What Naomi Didn&#8217;t Say, Sharon &#038; Sheldon Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are golden opportunities for GOP congressional representatives or energy company defendant lawyers to hammer &#8216;expert&#8217; witness testimonies about the validity of the &#8216;corporate-funded global warming skeptic liars-for-hire&#8217; accusation. I&#8217;m not kidding when I say these so-called witnesses are <strong><em>enslaved to only one set<\/em><\/strong> of supposedly viable &#8216;leaked memo evidence&#8217; for their accusation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=9222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=9285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 2<\/a> blog posts about Naomi Oreskes&#8217; appearances at U.S. House and Senate hearings, I detailed how she \u2014 who is otherwise <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Oreskes-PPT-strat-target2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enslaved<\/a> to this <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=7477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worthless<\/a> &#8216;leaked memo evidence&#8217; elsewhere \u2014 only danced around that evidence with <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oreskes-vague-ref.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vague references to it<\/a> while <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Oreskes-House-testim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incorrectly naming<\/a> the public relations campaign that supposedly operated under the directives contained in those memos.<\/p>\n<p>At these two congressional hearings, Naomi Oreskes never directly mentioned the &#8220;smoking gun&#8221; memo strategy, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">reposition global warming as theory (not fact)<\/span>, or the memo&#8217;s audience targets of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">less educated <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">men<\/span> \/ <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">lower income women<\/span> that she and her fellow enviro-activists friends have said <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=1480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for more than two decades<\/a> are evidence of a <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/TotN-97-radio-interview.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sinister<\/a> pay-for-performance arrangement between fossil fuel industry executives and skeptic &#8216;liars-for-hire&#8217; climate scientists.<\/p>\n<p>But her fellow witness <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191024221212\/https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/legislation\/hearings\/examining-the-oil-industry-s-efforts-to-suppress-the-truth-about-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the House hearing<\/a> did.<\/p>\n<p>Within Sharon Eubanks&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191231110333\/https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/Eubanks%20Congressional%20Testimony%20FINAL%20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prepared Written Testimony<\/a> &#8216;evidence&#8217; section on how the &#8220;Fossil Fuel Industry Funds a Deception Campaign,&#8221; there&#8217;s the following:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Eubanks-House-Reposit.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coincidence? Probably not, because she is <em>that<\/em> Sharon Eubanks, who is seen <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oreskes-Eubanks-La-Jolla.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as a participant<\/a> in the notorious 2012 La Jolla California <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160210154110\/https:\/\/nigguraths.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/02\/rico-teering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Rico-teering&#8217; workshop<\/a> which <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/La-Jolla-Oreskes-conceived.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naomi Oreskes conceived<\/a> in order to explore how energy companies could be prosecuted in a &#8216;tobacco industry-like manner&#8217; (which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AxaICTiNKvY&amp;t=940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oreskes <em>also<\/em> suggested<\/a> at the above-noted U.S. Senate hearing). The same La Jolla workshop where Oreskes mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Oreskes-WFA-docs-2012iii.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how she had documents<\/a> attributed to a particular industry group&#8217;s public relations campaign that supposedly operated under those memos&#8217; directives. Lest anyone forget, the PR campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Arnold-corroborates2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never utilized<\/a> those memos&#8217; directives.<\/p>\n<p>The coincidences&#8217; keep piling up. When Naomi Oreskes appeared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/climate\/hearings\/climate-crisis-committee-to-hold-hearing-on-dark-money-and-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the Senate &#8216;hearing,&#8217;<\/a> &#8216;committee &#8216;leader&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Whitehouse-comm-leader.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senator Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a> didn&#8217;t directly mention the &#8220;smoking gun&#8221; strategy memo phrase there \u2026\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sen-Whitehouse-reposit-Mar19.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but he did<\/a> at one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.senate.gov\/news\/speeches\/time-to-wake-up-friends-of-the-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his Senate floor speeches<\/a> back in March (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P_SwaXRB3rI&amp;t=664s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11:07 point<\/a> of the video of the speech) regarding how energy companies should be prosecuted. He went so far as to have a placard printed up with the strategy phrase on it.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sen-Whitehouse-CSPAN-reposit-Mar19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After more than two decades of enviro-activist accusers claiming they have devastating evidence proving energy companies engaged in a disinformation conspiracy with skeptic climate scientists, this is literally <strong><em>the best they can do:<\/em><\/strong> A memo set that was both <strong><em>never used<\/em><\/strong> and wrongly attributed to the Western Fuels Association&#8217;s &#8220;Information Council <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IC-for-E.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>for<\/strong><\/a> the Environment&#8221; pilot project public relations campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a no-win situation for the top end people who keep bringing up this worthless evidence. If they didn&#8217;t check the veracity of the evidence from the start, then they have every appearance of letting their emotions cloud their judgement, which leads us to wonder what else they never verified. But if the top end people knew this evidence was not the sinister industry directive they portrayed it to be but proceeded to use it with malice anyway, they may have committed one of the biggest acts of libel\/slander in history, and should be investigated and potentially prosecuted for this.<\/p>\n<p>This can and will blow up in their faces &#8230;. but only if GOP congressional representatives, energy company defendant lawyers, and bold, objective investigative reporters seize the golden opportunity to expose this fatal fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are golden opportunities for GOP congressional representatives or energy company defendant lawyers to hammer &#8216;expert&#8217; witness testimonies about the validity of the &#8216;corporate-funded global warming skeptic liars-for-hire&#8217; accusation. I&#8217;m not kidding when I say these so-called witnesses are enslaved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=9426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[178,80,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16884,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/16884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}