By Dr. Ed Berry
March 31, 2023
MTGOP’s censorship of former Governor Racicot was destructive to Montana Republicans. Censorship never pays. It always loses. In science it’s called Lysenkoism for a good reason. But a much bigger censorship loss is now in play.
Montana’s radical right (RR) controls Montana’s government. They happily rearrange their political deck chairs, unaware that their powerful Titanic will hit an iceberg on June 12, 2023, when the Our Childrens’ Trust (OCT) of Oregon, Held v Montana (HvM) trial begins.
OCT just won its climate lawsuit in Hawaii. When OCT wins HvM, Montana’s MCA § 90-4-I00l(c)-(g), MCA § 75-l-201(2)(a), energy policy, and MEPA climate change exceptions will be unconstitutional. Democrats will control Montana’s resources, energy, economy, and education.
Equally important, HvM will legally define unscientific junk to be the “climate truth” that Montana’s schools will use to brainwash and scare Montana’s kids.
In 2011, on my own dime, I defeated the same HvM when it was a petition in Montana’s Supreme Court, thereby saving Montana conservatives billions of dollars per year. As my reward, Montana censored me from helping Montana win HvM.
This letter is not about me. It is about saving conservative Montana. This is what you need to know.
Our AG and Governor have betrayed Montana conservatives. They have censored the best forensic climate physicist on the planet (me), a Montanan, a faithful Republican, who is also an expert in winning lawsuits.
Our AG and Governor have thereby purposefully, deceitfully, unethically, and immorally rejected leading edge, peer-reviewed, published (Made in Montana) climate science that can prove in court that the plaintiffs’ claimed science is fiction.
I learned on April 14, 2022, they censored me when an honest climate scientist returned, with a copy to me, our AG’s invitation to be an HvM expert witness. He wrote, “The guy you want is Ed Berry, who lives in Big Fork, Montana. Ed knows at least as much as I do, and he has written several scientific papers pertaining to the way CO2 behaves in the atmosphere, the biosphere, and the Ocean.”
Our AG is either incompetent or a puppet. Because he censored me, he has lost other climate lawsuits and made serious errors in defending HvM.
Our AG underestimates the strength of the plaintiffs’ arguments. He does not know how to use his expert witnesses. Some of them are incompetent to defeat HvM and who will turn on the defense if the plaintiffs’ attorneys know what questions to ask them.
Our Governor, who could do a parallel defense of HvM, supports our AG’s decision to censor me.
The RRs censored Racicot in the open. They censored me in the dark, in secret, without giving me a fair trial. I have the right to know my censors and respond to their charges. But they will not show their faces. They are today’s Pharisees.
They call themselves Libertarians. They agree with the Liberty Fellowship cult that preaches “there is not a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans.” They are a growing cancer in the MTGOP.
They were 17% of western Montana voters in November. They added 7% to the Libertarian’s vote and 10% percent to the Democrat’s vote. I am a better Republican than they are.
Their censorship of me parallels Montana’s Department of Revenue attack on my climate business from July 2020 to July 2022. MDOR found no errors in my bookkeeping yet unnecessarily conscripted over 1600 hours of my professional time and wasted over $100,000 of Montana taxpayer money in its failed attempt to extract $4500 from my LLC. I wrote my own defense and won MDOR’s mediation because MDOR’s attack was a fraud.
By their works we shall know them. The RRs’, our AG’s, and our Governor’s censorship supports Democrats.
Good conservatives will do three things.
First, tell Montana voters their elected RRs have betrayed Montana conservatives by censoring the best possible scientific argument to defeat HvM.
Second, to hear my 15-minute argument that would win HvM, contact me (edberry.com). I show how data and simple logic overturn everything you have read or heard about climate change.
Third, ASAP, we need some true conservatives to hire a quality trial lawyer to file an Intervention on HvM. If we do this, we will win.
© 2023 Ed Berry – All Rights Reserved
E-Mail Ed Berry: ed@edberry.com
