This past March, seventeen attorneys general launched a coordinated effort to investigate, pursue and prosecute companies, think tanks and other organizations who say there is little credible evidence that human "greenhouse gas" emissions are causing "dangerous" or "catastrophic" manmade climate change.
The AGs said their targets' actions constitute "fraud"--which they described as using "polished public relations campaigns" to "muddle the truth," "discredit prevailing climate science," and "mislead" people about threats from higher temperatures, rising seas, floods and more severe weather. Their real goal is to intimidate and silence targeted groups, and bankrupt them with legal fees, court costs and lost funding.