Author Archives: Russell Cook

About Russell Cook

Russell Cook is a semi-retired graphic artist. His collection of articles and blogs about the Gelbspan/Gore/Ozone Action/Greenpeace accusation can be seen here: http://gelbspanfiles.com/?page_id=86

Watch these spaces: “Birmingham Retirement & Relief v Tillerson” / “Ramirez v Exxon” / “Casquejo v Shell Part 2”

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For the latest readers arriving to this blog, I periodically have short descriptions of upcoming material under the “Watch this space” title. Up next, I’m known to locate certain things from time to time; I’ve located two more “ExxonKnew” lawsuits from several years back that I was not aware of until 4/5/26 and increased my tally of the total number of lawsuits falsely accusing Dr Willie Soon of accepting industry payments from 39 to 42. But there is also a really troublesome tie-in with one of those two lawsuits I didn’t know about to another I do know of, which I dissected years back. [4/12/26 Author’s addition:  my Part 1 on Casquejo noted that the actual lawsuit document was MIA at the time; that doc and two others associated with it are now available to the public – stay tuned here for Part 2, my dissection of it.]

Meanwhile, please do scroll down this blog post space for my completed posts, and return soon to see how the next one coming up will fill in this post space.

Is “AlterA.I.” smart or stupid? It’s Simple Test …

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Backstory for this post here is that I set up a daily Google email alert over a decade ago for any stories concerning global warming, and for some reason on March 25th, that alert system plopped in Massachusetts Merrimack College professor Dan Sarofian-Butin’s “I’m A Professor. I No Longer Know What My Job Is” RealClearEducation website article about the apparent takeover of artificial intelligence in classroom teaching situations. Unfortunately, I deleted the whole email alert before reading his article, so I don’t remember what the climate-related tagline was for the article. I discovered in a two-days-later Google email alert that most likely its alleged “A.I.” robot program strangely selected Prof Sarofian-Butin’s article as a global warming story the same way it did with another RealClearEducation article result – despite how both pieces don’t even mention global warming at all. Chalk up Google’s strange inclusions there as one more indicator that A.I. is not half as intelligent as it’s portrayed to be. Nevertheless, Prof Sarofian-Butin’s article contained a gem quote from a student who’d used an A.I. system as a means to get more insight about one of his lessons. Uhhh, yeah, that system, which then reminded me that I should do something with what I gleaned a few months earlier out of the “AlterAI” system, which a friend initially thought might actually be an unbiased intelligent system.

It is not. A simple test proves that true. Using its one-time trial demo option, I asked “AlterAI” two questions, and copied its answers verbatim (including its overuse of asterisks). Watch this:  Continue reading →

‘Declining Climate Change News Coverage’ GASLIGHTING

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Take your pick among variants of that basic theme seen among recent reports: “Climate change media coverage declining.” Or plummeting  /  shrinking  /  stopped  /  not increasing  /  plunging.

It’s actually just one more among myriad talking points put out by people on the other side of the climate issue that just ain’t so. Gaslighting. Continue reading →

SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case on Colorado Dispute over Climate Change; (it should throw that case and all the others out)

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I don’t just write about these things, I try to get something done. Upon learning the news on Feb 23 that the Supreme Court will be adding the effort to hear the concerns about the Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County situation, I fired off the verbatim email below to the main lawyer representing the energy companies (I spelled out the individual web links instead of embedding each one as I’ve done below; the bold highlighted words below where highlighted the same way in my email). Continue reading →

The Camel’s Nose (sorta) Under the Kentucky Tent

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For those who haven’t caught it, please see my updated count of the “ExxonKnew” lawsuits. Now, at least for today, there are 29 instead of 30. The ineptly done Carrboro v Duke Energy is gone, as of last week. It was nice how the judge issuing that order alluded to Duke Energy’s Motion to Dismiss gripe about a particular “Kentucky” disinformation ad accusation, but I submit the small exploration done by Duke Energy’s attorneys revealed only the proverbial ‘camel’s nose under the tent.’ When the fossil fuel industry folks with influence grow a spine and explore much deeper – or when somebody ends up doing their work for them – every one of the “ExxonKnew” lawsuits can implode, enabling the public to see where the real disinformation has been in the climate issue this entire time. Continue reading →

“The ‘Victory Memo’ Is the ‘Ugliest’ Document in Climate Denial History” – NOT

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In my (technically) Part 1 post about the United Nations seemingly channeling the worthless 1998 “victory will be achieved” memo set almost as though someone at the UN was making an inside joke about the memo, I emphasized at the outset how that memo was no more than the second-best ‘evidence’ the collective enviro-activists mob has ever for their accusations about the fossil fuel industry orchestrating efforts to deceive the public about the ‘harm’ of global warming. It’s amazing how that mob made a mountain out of a mole hill over what was nothing more than a single-day workshop effort to propose efforts on informing the public about faulty angles of the push to get the Kyoto Treaty ratified in the U.S. Senate. When the people behind the memo effort finally fully realized the Kyoto Treaty was never going to be ratified, it became a stillborn effort. Period, end of story. Nothing came of it.

Yet here we are today, approaching 28 years later after the ‘big media splash’ about the memo set, and particular people are promulgating that set like it is the #1 be-all, end-all smoking gun evidence to indict the industry of treacherous deception. As in, what I was hinting about at the end of my Part 1 post. The promulgator has once again offered up his head on a silver platter to the defendant law firms representing the energy companies named in the “ExxonKnew” lawsuits across the U.S. – and potentially to the defendants in the (still M.I.A.) UK-filed Casquejo v Shell lawsuit. Continue reading →

The People of the State of Michigan v BP P.L.C.

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Readers who are aware of my collective dissections list know that I differentiate between ‘pure boilerplate copy’ filings by the San Francisco law firm Sher Edling and “Sher Edling Assistance,” where the latter lawsuits are a small handful seemingly appearing to be independently written in a manner suggesting Sher Edling had no hand in composing them, but then later became directly associated with that firm. My initial prediction back in May 2024 was that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel would be committing political suicide if she elected to bring that firm in as ‘assisting counsel,’ and my update 4½ months later detailed how she had indeed made that massively unwise decision official. Time would tell if the filing turned out to be just another filing that copied ’n pasted accusation content from prior Sher Edling filings. A good indicator it would was AG Nessel’s equally unwise choice of the secondary ‘assisting law firm’ of DiCello Levitt which – as I showed in my dissection of the Pennsylvania Bucks County v BP lawsuit – had essentially plagiarized its material straight out of Sher Edling’s Chicago v BP filing. Notwithstanding the presence of DiCello Levitt having ‘top billing’ as the assisting firm for Chicago, my dissection of that one showed how it was a typical Sher Edling boilerplate copy ’n paste effort, the latest in a long string of them at the time.

But while this new 1/23/26 Michigan v BP filing gives Sher Edling ‘top billing’ for its assistant firms, it doesn’t follow Sher Edling’s typical copy ’n paste template. Continue reading →

Victory Will Be Achieved When … average citizens “understand” (recognize) the urgency of the climate crisis demands decisive action

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One of the more unnerving hallmarks of the zealot enviro-left (besides their basic trait of intellectual dishonesty – lying both to the public and themselves), is the manner in which they accuse others of actions they themselves do – a.k.a. psychological projection. The title of this blog post is a play on exactly that situation, surrounding a huge fault arising out of the otherwise pointless 30th UN climate conference that took place in November 2025 in Brazil. AmericanThinker author Susan Quinn’s 1/19/26 article title deftly points out what the fault was: “Climate change advocates at the UN launch new organized assault against free speech and information.” She’s referring to its misnamed “Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change.” Charles Rotter at WUWT covered the Declaration’s ‘assault’ one day before the end of the conference, succinctly describing it as “something George Orwell would have rejected for being too on-the-nose,” and he skewered even further with his concluding statement, “They call it “information integrity.” Let’s call it what it is: climate totalitarianism with a smile.”

An angle not covered by the above two analysis articles is how the irony of the construct underlying this Declaration sails right over the head of any zealot enviro-leftist who endorses it – they either don’t recognize it from elsewhere, or else they are oblivious to the way it is worded is just like the weapon they’ve used against the fossil fuel industry since 1998. Continue reading →

To understand why climate disinformation is so persistent, look at how the denial propaganda movement actually works

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First, a brief word on my Dec19th post – no appearance yet of the actual lawsuit document for Casquejo v. Shell filed in the UK; stay tuned here to find out whether it regurgitates/plagiarizes U.S. “ExxonKnew” lawsuits content or if it blazes its own new ‘global warming damages’ path. Meanwhile, let’s examine another angle of the incessant psychological projection problem besieging proponents of ClimaChange™. Hat tip to my Facebook climate issue Friend Kurt Womack (a common citizen who I saw years ago fearlessly setting one wayward other common citizen straight on a particular angle of the climate issue). Kurt alerted me to this amazing example he spotted at the Heartland Institute’s “The Climate Realism Community” Facebook group discussion area, where the wayward enviro-commenter there inadvertently pointed out how fundamentally disingenuous the collective climate issue can be at several levels. My blog post title substitutes one word in the title for the load that the wayward enviro-poster dumped on Dec 29th into Heartland’s discussion thread, screencapture for posterity below in case the guy deletes it. From that starting point, let’s then see where it all falls apart at a minimum of three different levels.

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