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UNHINGED! Schwarzenegger Says Oil Companies Committed ‘First Degree Murder,’ Will File A Climate Lawsuit
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Former California Governor and Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is launching a public awareness and litigation campaign against the oil industry.
Schwarzenegger spoke on his vendetta against fossil fuels to POLITICO’s Off Message podcast Sunday. The global environmental activist wants to hold oil and gas companies liable for the effects of global warming and “for knowingly killing people all over the world,” Politico reported.
“We’re going to go after them, and we’re going to be in there like an Alabama tick. Because to me it’s absolutely irresponsible to know that your product is killing people and not have a warning label on it, like tobacco,” Schwarzenegger said. “Every gas station [should have a warning label] on it, every car should have a warning label on it, every product that has fossil fuels should have a warning label on it.”
“If you walk into a room and you know you’re going to kill someone, it’s first degree murder; I think it’s the same thing with the oil companies,”
Harvard University history professor Naomi Oreskes claimed in August 2017 Exxon intentionally hid evidence from the public that showed fossil fuels damage the environment and drive global warming. Oreskes’ analysis, however, was widely criticized and debunked after problems in her methodology were revealed.
Cleveland State University researcher Kimberly Neuendorf, who has four decades of experience conducting content analysis, reviewed Oreskes’ work and noted significant mistakes and breaks from accepted analytical processes.
Neuendorf’s review, paid for by Exxon, showed that Oreskes’ made improper judgements treating ads from Mobil as if they were from Exxon before the two companies joined in 1999. Oreskes’ also failed to sufficiently distance herself from the data coding process, doing the coding herself instead of using a separate, third-party coder.
Oreskes helped begin a public campaign against Exxon at a climate conference in California in 2012.
Schwarzenegger’s lawsuit will join a slew of climate-related court actions against the oil industry. Roughly a dozen cities, states and other municipalities have filed lawsuits against oil and gas companies attempting to hold members of the industry liable for damage caused by severe weather.
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