Davin News Server

1) If you were going to adamantly suggest that 'fossil fuel company executives 
and the shill experts they hired to spread disinformation' should be charged 
with climate homicide; and/or 2) if you were going to advocate that regulatory 
bodies / organizations have the power to enforce laws against the spread of 
fossil fuel industry disinformation and persecute those who break them; and/or 
3) if you tout yourself as an expert on such industry disinformation while 
making yourself available for law firms currently suing fossil fuel for global 
warming damages - it would be political suicide to put all your eggs in the one 
basket of a so-called newspaper disinformation advertorial titled "Who told you 
the earth was warming, Chicken Little?" if you never bothered to find out if 
the advertorial was ever published anywhere ... . wouldn't it? When it never 
was, you'd be in huge trouble if you recklessly continued to promulgate an 
accusation devoid of evidence to support it, wouldn't you?

No joke, the collective enviro-activist lobby is completely enslaved to that 
"Chicken Little" 'disinformation ad' accusation as they try to dupe the public 
into believing an advertorial having that headline is smoking gun evidence of 
sinister fossil fuel industry disinformation campaigns. There might just be a 
new development about this - the question is whether somebody within that mob 
has tipped their hand in the last few weeks to reveal they now know the 
"Chicken Little" ad is worthless.

Regarding the 'climate homicide' idea angle, that's entirely a product of 
Public Citizen's David Arkush. I've specifically covered his fatally faulty 
accusation twice before at GelbspanFiles last year, but noted how his diatribe 
oddly left out the most viable-looking bit of 'evidence' that enviro-activists 
have in their arsenal for claiming industry-led disinformation campaigns exist, 
namely the worthless, never implemented "reposition global warming" memo set 
which goes hand-in-glove with accusations about the "Chicken Little" ad (e.g. 
in the "ExxonKnew" lawsuits). Arkush must have been given a lecture about that 
missed opportunity - he popped up again on April 10, 2024 with that same 
'homicide' mantra in his Newsweek article "Big Oil Could Face Homicide 
Charges," where he offers the following (with clickable links):

... the "Information Council for the Environment" set out to "Reposition global 
warming as theory (not fact)" through, for example, advertisements comparing 
concerns about climate change to "Chicken Little's hysteria about the sky 
falling." This conduct did not just violate every principle of human decency; 
according to dozens of civil lawsuits cases brought by cities and states across 
the country, it violated the law, as well. ..... As a growing number of legal 
experts, scientists, and former prosecutors have recently begun positing, the 
fossil fuel industry's knowing generation and coverup of the climate crisis may 
constitute a range of criminal offenses. ... They could even support charges of 
homicide.

Right. David Arkush would have people charged with homicide based on a rejected 
proposal for a public relations campaign that never operated on a directive to 
'reposition' anything, and based on a newspaper 'advertorial' that was never 
published anywhere. And how does Arkush aim a political suicide gun at his own 
head on this? The first two clickable links there are the same, going to the 
same Union of Concerned Scientists "Dossier #5" which the Sher Edling law firm 
is enslaved to for its boilerplate copy "ExxonKnew" lawsuits' accusations about 
the "reposition global warming" memo set and the "Chicken Little" ad, e.g. its 
Imperial Beach v Chevron 2017 filing. Lead lawyer Victor Sher proudly showed 
this advertorial 'evidence' in a 2017 presentation, in which he could not keep 
his details straight about them. Meanwhile, who does the UCS cite for this? 
They cite the old "Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action" memo scans collection, - 
with the memo set and the pair of never-published advertorials.

One more thing here, not helpful to Arkush at all: Who does he cite in his 
clickable link as evidence for the 'growing number of legal experts positing 
the fuel industry's coverup constitutes criminal offenses'? A UK Guardian 
article about him. He's the growing number. When it becomes abundantly obvious 
how fatally weak his 'evidence' is for jailing fossil fuel industry 
misinformers, the number of people distancing themselves from any prior 
endorsement of his idea will likely skyrocket.

This embarrassment is not limited to his flawed advocacy, either.

Just under eight weeks before Arkush's Newsweek article was published, the 
CarbonCredits group ("your source for carbon news, carbon pricing, carbon 
opportunities and more") put out a piece titled "Ending the Big Lie: No More 
Fake News for Fossil Fuels" on February 16, 2024. What was the headline 
illustration supporting their demand for the 'end of fossil fuel lies'? No less 
than arguably a lie itself, also disingenuously cropping out the text at the 
bottom, which only adds to their self-inflicted crash. It's basically the same 
ill-advised cropping action that the Sher Edling law firm inflicts upon itself 
(hold the thought for a few moments on who the image source is in that 
screencapture). 

http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=12933
http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=15017
http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=15356
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/UCS-cites-GP-OA.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SherEdling-UCS-repet.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Arnold-corroborates3.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GPOA-strat-target-Chicken-
flat-1024x886.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GPOAs-ChickenDoomsday-
scans.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Oreskes-expert-informed-
reposit.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GF-Oreskes-on-retainer.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Sher-luv-those-ICE-ads.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Arkuch-Newsweek-reposit-
chicken.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Arkush-Grauniad-growing-
homicide.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CarbCrud-source.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ImpBeach-v-Chevron-Chicken-
Lil-UCS.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NJ-v-Exxon-reposit-
Chicken.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SherEdlingICE-Davies-
cropped.jpg
https://carboncredits.com/ending-the-big-lie-no-more-fake-news-for-fossil-
fuels/
https://climateintegrity.org/
https://www.citizen.org/about/person/david-arkush/
https://www.google.com/search?
q="Who+told+you+the+Earth+was+warming+chicken+little"
https://www.newsweek.com/big-oil-could-face-homicide-charges-opinion-1889011
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/21/fossil-fuel-companies-homicide-
climate-deaths-lawsuit
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/07/Climate-Deception-
Dossier-5_ICE.pdf

The 'end of lies' they advocate is a law in Canada making it illegal to falsely 
promote the burning of fossil fuels as a benefit to the public - prohibiting 
'disinformation,' in other words. They set it up this way:

The Canadian Parliament is introducing a new drastic, and highly controversial 
move against false fossil fuel advertising. ... it didn't always used to be 
this way. In fact, big oil fought for a very long time to conceal, downplay, 
and outright deny the evidence of the impact that fossil fuels were having on 
our planet.

Take the picture above, for instance. This newspaper ad ran all the way back in 
1991 and was paid for by an organization named "Informed Citizens for the 
Environment". ... Also known as the "Information Council for the Environment" 
or ICE, this group had one simple goal: to "reposition global warming as theory 
(not fact)."

No, the ICE campaign was never known as "Informed Citizens," it never had the 
goal to 'reposition' anything, and the "Chicken Little" advertorial did not run 
anywhere.

It doesn't stop there. CarbonCredits group ... meet your leap-of-assumption 
brick wall.

that's not just an assumption either. That's taken verbatim from one of their 
own internal documents ....

No, it is not the Western Fuels ICE campaign's own internal documents.

The CarbonCredits group would have people charged with and prosecuted for 
promoting disinformation, of which the basis of their advocacy is a prime 
example of ... . disinformation.

The 'verbatim internal doc' they show is their own upload from a source they do 
not name. What is the source? ClimateFiles, the same outlet who supplies Sher 
Edling with that "Chicken Little" image, albeit less cropped. Run by Roland C 
"Kert" Davies, formerly out of his Climate Files/Climate Investigations Center, 
formerly out of Greenpeace USA/Ozone Action, now at the Center for Climate 
Integrity (CIC). Yes, that CIC ... which got their "reposition global warming" 
memos / "Chicken Little"/ "Doomsday Canceled" advertorials from Kert Davies.

Regarding the countless number of times the "Chicken Little" advertorial phrase 
has been repeated over the decades, it's practically endemic; I could spend 
hours pointing out the errors of assumption in the written narratives about the 
ad, it's embarrassing to see the extent of blind trust put in the accusation by 
people who should know enough question it first at the most minimal of levels 
when they view images of the advertorial:

why are some of the images missing text underneath while others show text?
what does the ad text say?
why is it cropped at the bottom?
why does it look like a multi-generation degraded photocopy?
if these were printed in newspapers ... why not show those out of actual 
newspapers instead of whatever these lousy images are?

The "Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action" memo scans collection that included this 
advertorial went offline in April 2022, but I downloaded that collection before 
then and saved them here. The Google Image results for the "Chicken Little" ad 
always show the bottom cropped in some way. What happens when anyone magnifies 
that advertorial in the Greenpeace/Ozone Action scans? It shows a non-existent 
"toll-free" number, and a name suggestion for the PR campaign that was 
unsolicited and never used.

Same never-used ICE name for the "Doomsday Canceled" advertorial.

See the problem there?

Think about it. Would you be taken seriously if you advanced the position that 
people should be prosecuted for questioning anything about your argument that 
big corporations need to be held accountable for damages to the natural 
habitats of - and possibly for them to be charged with the killing of - Bigfoot 
and the Loch Ness Monster .... when the only proof of their existence are 
singular grainy images sourced from hugely suspect people?

And yet that is the moral equivalent of what is happening here, with major news 
outlets not questioning anything about a cropped, lousy quality photocopy of a 
chicken.

There is, however, a new weeks-old head scratcher development, after almost 30 
years of enviro-activists showing the public only Greenpeace's/Ozone Action's 
lousy photocopies of advertorials attributed to the Western Fuels "ICE" public 
relations campaign. It happened on April 2, 2024, in between the above Feb 26 
and April 10 "Chicken Little" repetitions I detailed above. Have a look at 
this, from the "ExxonKnews" website's "Big Oil clouded the science on extreme 
weather. Now it faces a reckoning" report about the days-old Bucks County v BP 
lawsuit, where they offered nothing more about the advertorial image beyond 
what appears in part of the caption below the image:

One ad from a PR campaign by the "Information Council on the Environment," 
funded by fossil fuel and electric utility interests. ...

Compared to any other enviro-activist screed claiming the "reposition global 
warming" memos / ICE advertorials prove industry-led disinformation campaigns 
happened, this ExxonKnews piece uniquely shows an actual ICE advertorial 
published in a newspaper. It's the ExxonKnews site's own uploaded image, and it 
is still quite hard to read the small text, but it is genuine. I recognize it, 
I showed it myself in my "The Real ICE ads, Part 4" blog post in January 2022. 
The ad was published in the May 22, 1991 Flagstaff Arizona Daily Sun newspaper. 
My downloaded copy out of the Newspapers.com website is one which people can 
magnify and easily read.

The mystery here is - again, after the prior 28-year pattern - why this 
otherwise standard screed at ExxonKnews about fossil fuel industry 
disinformation campaigns went off the reservation and did not feature the 
standard horrible photocopy advertorial images out of Greenpeace/Ozone Action. 
It's very likely that whoever wrote the caption was operating off a template 
narrative, since the person predictably got part of the spelled-out ICE name 
wrong even though the actual official name was right there in, well, more or 
less plain sight.

Might be just a coincidence - the author of that ExxonKnews piece and/or her 
editor might have had enough brains to ask, "geeze, isn't there a more clear 
image of one of these ICE ads out there in a newspaper that doesn't look as 
weirdly terrible as the ones we were told to use?" Or is this an indicator that 
folks promulgating the 'industry disinformation' accusation have figured out 
they are in a hole they cannot dig their way out of from using those old 
Greenpeace/Ozone Action scans?

What is "ExxonKnews"? It's a project of the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI). 
Who was hired at CCI as their new "Director of Special Investigations" nine 
months ago?

Kert Davies. 

http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=12933
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1991-ICE-docs.pdf
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/GPOA-Informed-Reposit.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NYT-advice-unsold.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ClimFiles-Chicken-worse-
cropped.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ellison-Chicken-serious-
problem.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GPs-4950-zoom-Informed-
701.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Arizona_Daily_Sun_Wed__May_
22__1991_.pdf
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CBSSunMorn-Tobacco-Chicken-
reposit.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wiles-Davies-30-yrs-Big-
Oil-Beware.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GF-GP-Investigations-
lights-out.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Roland-C-Davies.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Davies-LinkedIn-Jan24-
GPOA.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CCI-ClimeFiles-reposit-
Chicken-Doom.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CarbonCrudits-Chicken-
Informed-reposit.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CarbonCrudits-hides-Davies-
ClimFiles.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Climfiles-highlighted-
Strat-reposit-Chicken-Doom.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ExxonNews-IC-on-for-E-MN-
Colder.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ExxonNews-Kerts-new-CCI-
home.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ExxonNews-v-NewsP-MN-
Colder.jpg
http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Goog-Chick-Lil-images-
1024x926.jpg
https://i0.wp.com/gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ExxonNews-MN-
Colder-actual-ICE-580x1024.jpg
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bigfoot-
Nessie.jpg?ssl=1
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GP-ICE-
Chicklittle-magnif2.jpg?ssl=1
https://www.exxonknews.org/p/big-oil-clouded-the-science-on-extreme

=====

April:

Record Cold Strikes Northern Ontario

Rare April Snow Continues Across Europe

Europe Breaks Historic Low Temperature Records As Rare Spring Snow Falls on 
Major Cities

Norwegian Ski Resort on For Bumper Summer Season

Europe Freezes

No Spring In Sight For Much of Russia

Temperatures Are Falling Globally

Feet of Spring Snow Pound Colorado

U.S. Braces For Record April Cold

Socal's Back-To-Back Bumper Snow Seasons

Cold And Snow To Persist Into May Across Europe

Scabbard on For Cold April

Switzerland's Snow Matches Historic 1974-75 Season

Heavy Snow Slams Northwestern Iran

Europe Braces For Spring Freeze

Another Three Avalanche Deaths In The Alps

Indian State Suffers Coldest April Day on Record

Today's Arctic Sea Ice Extent Matches 1996

Snow Remains In Northern India

54 Spots

NZ's Record-Cold March

Rare April Snow Hits Bay Area

More Snow For Midwest/New

Scandinavia Extends Historic Cold Spell, As Europe Sets Snow Records

Feet Of Spring Snow Pound Colorado

Southern Cal's Back-To-Back Bumper Snow Seasons

Svalbard On For Cold April

Indian State Suffers Coldest April Day On Record

The Arctic Was Warmer In The 1920s

Germany Regrets Disbanding Nuclear Plants, It Was A "Mistake"

Yukon Snowpack Breaks Records

Early Snows Hit Australia's Ski Fields

It's Still Snowing On Kilimanjaro... Al Gore Was Wrong (as usual)

Alyeska Exceeds 700 Inches

Rare April Snow Hits Boise

Montreal's Snowiest April Since 2010

Clearing Crews Reach Baralacha

Antarctica At -75.8C (-104.4F)

Alta Posts Rare Back-To-Back 600+ Inch Winters

Indian Army Rescues 80 Trapped By Spring Snowfall

Remarkable Antarctic Sea Ice Recovery

April Nor'Easter Drops Feet Of Snow

600,000 Lose Power As 'Spring' Storm Batters Quebec

Avalanche Hits Helicopter In The Alps, Killing 3

Scandinavia Breaks Historic Low Temperature Stretch

New Zealand's Record-Cold March

Rare April Snow To Dust Bay Area Peaks

More Snow For The Midwest/Northeast

Scandinavia Extends Spell Of Historic April Cold, As Europe's Mountain Snow 
Breaks Records

Sweden Sets Coldest April Temperature

Swiss Avalanche Kills 3

Utah Snowpack At 132%, California Defies The 'Experts'

Anchorage Only 6.3" Away From All-Time Record

Colder-Than-Average March At Vostok

Antarctica Dips Below -100F

"Significant Spring Snowstorm" Takes Aim At Canada/Northern US

April Snow Builds Across Europe's Higher Elevations