Manipulating Climate Change: Warming to RICO?
by Christopher C. Horner
For some time. several individuals have asked why we don’t just initiate suit against the obviously dishonest tactics and claims by the global warming industry under the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO). This law commissions “private attorneys general” to pursue violations on their own, in essence as proxies for the state.
I have explained with intermittent impatience that just serially lying or exaggerating to deceive are not on their face RICO “predicate” offenses. There must be three instances of a certain type of enumerated behavior over ten years to constitute a pattern in violation of RICO.
I have received an email from someone who has much appropriate training and experience and which causes me to revisit the issue. He writes,
“Well, now it really does look like a massive conspiracy to defraud the government.
When I was in law school, one of my profs noted dryly that once in a while the Massachusetts Attorney General would sternly announce ‘we are going to investigate this matter of ____,’ and the sky of Boston would blacken with the smoke of burning documents.
I bet there was a blip in electricity use this morning from emails being deleted by the climate change community.”
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