The SEC has proposed new regulations requiring issuers to disclose not only their own corporate emissions, but also those of its suppliers. These costly proposals were justified by a few anecdotes as justifying investor demand. This article shows the dominant role played by politicians in demanding conclusions about a climate change crisis in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Honest scientists resigned in protest, and their work has either been ignored or suppressed by opponents. Many studies have documented the recurring intervals of cooling and warming of the earth, dating to pre-historic times. The UN's hysterical claims of a climate warming crisis caused by human activity are obviously falsified by this ignored history. The only justification for such politically dominated supposedly scientific reports is to enable governments to exercise more control over human activity.
This issue's Survey focuses on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC") rulemaking activities and other decisions relating to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), and other federal securities laws from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.
