There is a rather interesting development on the AGW front. It seems that a group has filed a class action lawsuit against energy companies for causing global warming.
The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit.
“The plaintiffs allege that defendants’ operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming,” say the documents seen by the AFP news agency.
The increase in global surface air and water temperatures “in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs’ private property, as well as public property useful to them.”
There is one problem with this suit…the lack of AGW. If you recall, Phil Jones, of ClimateGate fame, recently told the BBC:
B – Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming
Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods.
C – Do you agree that from January 2002 to the present there has been statistically significant global cooling?
No. This period is even shorter than 1995-2009. The trend this time is negative (-0.12C per decade), but this trend is not statistically significant.
In a sense, I think that this is a fantastic opportunity to put AGW on trial. If this goes to court, evidence can be presented to show that not only is AGW not occurring, but that there is significant evidence for a cooling trend. Evidence for solar activity, ocean currents, deleted data, disappearing weather stations, fudged numbers, and “hiding the decline,” can be presented, and the suit may fail. Wouldn’t that be an excellent development? They might just be giving us the golden opportunity to permanently discredit the religion of AGW.
Of course, the MSM probably won’t cover it, but you know the alternative media will.
On a more sarcastic note, I thought Katrina was Bush’s fault? You know libs, you should stick to script on these things! On the other hand, maybe they should sue Al Gore for fraud!
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I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
I agree with you Matt, this just might be a great opportunity to put AGW on trial. It could lay the foundation for a reversal of the Supreme Court decision to classify CO2 as a green house gas. I do think with all the new evidence against global warming the Supreme Court needs to take another look at that decision. Only time will tell.
There are some exciting possibilities there. I do wonder, though, if they’ll be encouraged to drop the suit for hat very reason. I seem to recall some affirmative actions suits that were settled back in the 90′s, because the people that supported affirmative action were afraid they would lose, and that would then set precedent.
What a coincidence, I have filed a class action lawsuit against Al Gore (since he, A. invented the internet and B. is the world’s biggest cheerleader for AGW) because other, more liberal sites are getting more traffic and I am sure it is because of global climate warming change…
Global warming killed my blog!!!
This would be a chance to put global warming on trial, but you never know what can happen in some of these courts. Can you imagine what would happen if they actually won this case?
That would be a disaster. I could only hope that enough people learned about the fraud from the publicity.
They’d be better off suing Al Gore, since he’s the one who pocketed their money.
…And will pocket billions if Cap and Slave is passed.
The global warming, sorry, climate change crowd are not giving up.
Its now the fake but accurate line of defense coupled with the ‘if you repeat a lie enough’ process. And, if we have an unseasonably warm summer, they will become shrill and unhinged.
It’s the “big lie,” that’s for sure.
I’ve been saving some quotes from libs for the possibility that it is warm. I’ll just throw their own quotes back at them.
The idea of a trial sounds intriguing but would probably end up like the Skopes trial over evolution vs creation – just another media circus where there are no real facts to present – opinions, innuendos, false assumptions and erroneous data.
Who gets to decide? What jury is qualified to understand the principles involved that even trained scientists in the area can honestly disagree.
Sit back and enjoy the circus – it will make the OJ trial look like a closed door session of Congress.
Thanks for the comment Jeff. If I were the lawyers on the defense, I would be pointing out all the flaws in the science, which are easy for anyone to get. Considering how the “science” is being discredited, it might not be as difficult as you think.
The funny part in all of this though is we should recycle but just because it is a good use of resources.
We should walk more because we pay lots of gyms to walk on their treadmills because we have to park right next to the door in a parking lot or will sit for five minutes waiting for someone to pull out.
We should conserve energy because it costs good money we could use for much better purposes than paying utility companies.
You are correct on all counts Jeff. The question is this, do we chose to do that, or does the government force us to by not giving us any other options?
Muchas gracias