They should countersue for the wealth that was created from fossil fuels

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gee, what could have started happening around 1820?

Connecticut's climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil moves forward as judge allows case to proceed.

Several years after Connecticut's attorney general sued ExxonMobil over its communications and actions on global warming, some have wondered if the oil company should be held accountable for climate change, but this week [an idiot] state judge is allowing the lawsuit to proceed.

Attorney General William Tong sued Exxon Mobil in September 2020 under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, seeking $5,000 for every "willful" violation of the law if determined to have occurred, and additional amounts to pay for costs to the state in mitigating the impact of weather extremes, floods, rising sea levels and other environmental threats. Tong's office has yet to cite an aggregate total in penalties sought from ExxonMobil.

“We are pleased with this decision and look forward to proceeding to discovery," Tong stated in an email forwarded by an office spokesperson Friday. "Our case against ExxonMobil is simple and strong. We are going to expose their lies and hold them accountable for their decades of deception and harm to our climate.”

Governments don’t create wealth, they merely seize it from the producers and distribute it to their friends, with a suitable dividend reserved for themselves. Subdivisions of those governments such as Connecticut’s attorneys generals are just looting tools to accomplish this. Tong is a disgrace to humanity, but then, so was Blumenthal — still is, in fact.

And this is always good for a laugh:

Newsweek, 1975, published under the heading, “Science”.

As the son of a noted cambist, I can be expected to be well-versed in, and have a lifelong familiarity with the intricacies of foreign exchange

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I’ll be opening a foreign exchange trading office soon, solely for the benefit and convenience of FWIW readers. Minimum investment $100,000, send crypto funds to our banker in Nigeria, Adebayo Abayomi, wiring instructions upon request.


This one went so quickly that Hooligan & Lawyers didn't even have time to put it on its website

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520 West Lyon Farm, $1.295 million, is reported pending after 3 days, which suggests that it was gone on the first day, and almost certainly for above its asking price. Listed by the redoubtable Sally Maloney, who controls all sales in this community (well, not really, but pretty close to it).

Units in Lyon Farm that needed extensive updating like this one does were selling in the $850-$950 range pre-lockdown; they’ve soared since.

Another April contract, July closing

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8 Pinecrest Road, Riverside, listed at $3.195 million, sold for $3.150. Back when it first hit the market I predicted that it would sell immediately, because Pinecrest is a nifty little street, convenient to everything (well, everything in Riverside and Old Greenwich), so I was surprised when it lingered on the market for over a month. But all worked out in the end: the sellers got a good price, and the buyers now have a good house.