& (ALEC), although not the kind of big week they’d probably prefer.
ALEC members include big coal companies such as Peabody Energy, whose profits depend on pretending climate change isn’t a problem.
This week, , followed by
and Yelp!, announced that they were dropping out of the organization, which signs up corporations, nonprofits and legislators to support “model legislation” intended to benefit big business above all. And
CEO Eric Schmidt specifically took a shot at ALEC’s
policies saying it was “just literally lying.”
ALEC CEO Lisa B. Nelson shot back with an indignant statement that said, “It is unfortunate to learn Google has ended its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council as a result of public pressure from left-leaning individuals and organizations who intentionally confuse free market policy perspectives for climate change denial. In the case of energy generation, ALEC believes renewable energy should expand based on consumer demand, not as a result of a government mandate. Google’s renewable energy commitment—as well as those found throughout private industry—is completely consistent with ALEC policy because the companies in question chose renewables absent a mandate.”
But in fact, ALEC promotes many policies, programs and pieces of legislation contingent on denying climate science. Environmental advocacy group , which has organized campaigns to pressure companies like Google to drop ALEC, and the , which monitors p.r. spin, helpfully provided five ways ALEC does this.
1. ALEC invites climate deniers to its annual meetings to provide legislators with misinformation. At its most recent meeting, groups like far-right thing tank the Heartland institute and nonprofit Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which promotes unregulated development, armed with talking points, including that there is no need to reduce carbon emissions and that in fact they are healthy, that there is no scientific consensus about human-caused climate change, and that the likely benefits of man-made global warming (which doesn’t exist) exceed the likely costs.
2. ALEC’s “model legislation” on climate says that while human activity has led to climate change and global warming, this could be beneficial. It suggests establishing a commission to do more research, even though the research has been done and confirmed, thus delaying action indefinitely.
3. ALEC’s “model legislation” on science education promotes the “teach both sides” approach favored by anti-evolution types when there is no scientific debate on climate change. Its so-called “Environmental Literacy Improvement Act” requires that a range of perspectives be offered and that students be encouraged to explore even erroneous contentions to form their own opinions. Tennessee, Texas, South Dakota and Louisiana have all passed nearly identically worded bills, crafted by ALEC, opening the door to bringing climate denial into science classrooms.
4. Prominent ALEC leaders are climate deniers. Its incoming national chair, state rep. Phil King (R-TX) has said,”I think the global warming theory is bad science” and has accused President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency of pushing “unproven” technologies intended not for the “stated objective of combating climate change” but to crush the coal industry. Its current chair, state rep. John Piscopo (R-CT), claims, “There are ice ages and periods of warming throughout Earth’s history. We could be in a period between ice ages. It’s not human-induced, not catastrophic. It’s nothing to panic over. I think it’s a move by government to take over and tax our energy system.” And Ohio state senator Bill Seitz, an ALEC board member, was the prime mover behind Ohio’s recent move to freeze its renewable energy standards, the first state in the U.S. to do so. He has referred to the standards as “some Stalinist government mandating” and is pushing for permanent total repeal.
5. ALEC has a long history of denying climate science, including a 2005 report called “,” which appeared on its website for many years. Among the “myths” it purported to debunk: that human activity causes global warming, that extreme weather events are caused by global warming, that there’s been any significant warming at all in the last century and that what it calls “carbon reduction schemes” will be relatively inexpensive.
Ultimately, it’s not about whether ALEC really believes that climate change is happening or that it’s human-caused. It’s about promoting legislation embodying “free market principles” that benefit its members, which include many major polluters such as Peabody Energy, ExxonMobile, Chevron and TransCanada, impacts be damned.
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Wide Variety of Music
How does Smart Alec play?
&I use a mixture of background
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Harmonica Solos Available to Listen To:
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Smart Alec Blues
(Original Song - accompanying himself on rhythm
and lead guitar and diatonic harmonica)
(Original Song - accompanying
himself on rhythm and lead guitar and chromatic and diatonic harmonica)
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Smart Alec Singing with Guitar & Harmonica
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Low Quality Recorded Live
(blues style,
List of Songs that I Play
Harmonic Types (Chromatic - has a button on end,
Diatonic - smaller and used often for blues style)
There are a few tracks that I have recorded
myself at some open mic events, the sound quality is not the
best. The only study quality recording is the first song
below. I will try and add more studio quality songs soon.
Smooth Jazz
This Masquerade (George Benson, Chromatic,
New York State of Mind (Billy Joel,
Chromatic - Jazz, track)
Smooth Operator (Sade, Chromatic, Jazz
(Van Morrison, Chromatic - Jazz, track)
The Way You Look Tonight (Sinatra, Chromatic
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Summertime (Nora Jones, Chromatic or
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Watermelon Man (Herby Hancock, Chromatic and
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That's the Way of the World (Earth, Wind and
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Oh Suzanna (James Taylor Style, Diatonic,
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Sara's Smile (Hall & Oates, Diatonic,
Guitar, Jazz, Sing)
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Stormy Monday (Almond Bothers, Diatonic Harp
Bring it on Home (Sam Cooke, Diatonic -
Thrill is Gone (B. B. King, Diatonic -
Blues, Electric Guitar, Sing)
Fever (Peggy Lee, Diatonic - Blues, Tack)
Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett, Diatonic -
Blues, Track, Popular)
Playing in the Blues Style
Georgia on& My Mind (Louis Armstrong,
Diatonic harp - blues style, track)
When a Man Loves a Woman (Percy Sledge, Diatonic - blues style,
Amazing Grace (Jackie Evancho, Diatonic -
blues style, Gospel)
Darling You Send Me& (Sam Cooke,
Diatonic - Blues, Track)
Tequila (Ventures, Diatonic & Chromatic,
Track or Guitar)
House of the Rising Sun (Animals, Diatonic,
Track or Guitar)
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay (Ottis
Redding, Diatonic- Blues Style, Guitar & Sing)
Playing Popular Songs
What a Wonderful World (Lois Armstrong,
Chromatic and Diatonic, Popular)
At Last (Etta James, Diatonic and Chromatic,
Since I Fell For You (Bonnie Raitt,
Diatonic-blues style, Popular)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Israel
Kamakwwiwo, Diatonic, Popular, track or guitar)
Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel,
Diatonic, Popular, Track)
Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton, Diatonic,
Hotel California (Eagles, Diatonic, Track,
Can't Get Enough of Your Love (Barry White,
Chromatic & Diatonic, Track, Popular)
Piano Man (Billy Joel, Diatonic, Track)
My Girl (Temptations, Diatonic, Track)
Just Your Imagination (Temptations,
Diatonic, Track)
Imagine (John Lennon, Diatonic, Track)
Don't Think Twice (Bob Dylan, Diatonic,
Blackbird (Beatles, Diatonic, Guitar, sing)
My Original Songs
(Original Song -
accompanying himself on rhythm and lead guitar and diatonic
harmonica)
(Original Song
- accompanying himself on rhythm and lead guitar and chromatic and
diatonic harmonica)
&(Original
Song - accompanying himself on rhythm and lead guitar and diatonic
harmonica)
Renegade Blues (My family blues song
with accompaniment of diatonic blues harmonica and guitar)
Comedy Blues
Jute Box (Comedy blues song with
accompaniment of diatonic blues harmonica and guitar)
Cup of Sugar (Comedy blues song with
accompaniment of diatonic blues harmonica and guitar)
At Last, I Thought (Nasty Comedy blues song
with accompaniment of diatonic blues harmonica and guitar)
Elvis' Blue Suede Shoes (Blues song with
accompaniment of diatonic blues harmonica and guitar)
Popular Songs
(World song with accompaniment of diatonic harmonica and guitar)
Dance of Romance (Popular style song
with accompaniment of diatonic blues harmonica and guitar)
Tough Love (Tough love song with
accompaniment of diatonic blues harmonica and guitar)
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