What next? Volcanos?
So Boulder – More cities trying to sue energy companies over “damages” from climate change
Those companies may have drilled for the oil, refined it and put it into barrels. But you people in the cities have been burning it with abandon for as long as it’s been available and you’re still burning it today if you use electricity or heat anything with natural gas. Shouldn’t you really be taking yourselves to court?
This is laughingly pathetic. If these “green weenies” have their way, the middle class and the poor will be buying their electricity with government subsidies, similar to healthcare.gov because the cost of energy will be too damn high.
This has happened before. It’s cities trying to hit up a pot of gold for cash. With the legal precedent that’s been set, they can do this as many times as they want, any time they want.
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=8157
http://www.dailycamera.com/columnists/ci_31597739/will-toor-boulders-early-climate-lawsuit-had-impact
Boulder, four other cities, and Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth sued the ExIm Bank and OPIC in 2005, and won the suit in 2009, with damages of a half-billion dollars awarded between them.
Unfortunately, it’s likely that this lawsuit effort will be a windfall for Boulder and these other cities, because I’ve listened to what Earth scientist John Christie said about these legal challenges years ago. He went up against these interests in court, showing a model run, saying, “This is how much X law restricting CO2 will have on the long-term temperature trend” (showing negligible difference), and the judge STILL allowed the regulation to go forward. Either the legal system doesn’t understand what the science means, or they’re biased in favor of restricting CO2.
Gag me. I sure hope that Greenpeace has a problem with the mining of the minerals used to create the powerful rare earth magnets used in the wind turbines.
Will Toor, certainly him and Boulder are two peas in a pod.
It’s all so depressing the lack of critical thinking (group think) and the trust in big government.