Climate lawsuits are coming, AL Gore & Czar Browner warn

Politico ^ | September 22, 2009 | Josh Gerstein

[opentalk]

Former Vice President Al Gore and current White House climate change czar Carol Browner are warning companies and lawmakers that the courts will step in to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress fails to act.

"All of the discussion has been about the president and the Congress," Gore told journalists at a U.N. press conference Tuesday. "We have a third branch of government: the courts."

[opentalk]

Gore said the trend in the courts was favoring greater regulation. "The Supreme Corurt ruled over a year ago that CO2 emissions are pollution as covered in the Clean Air Act," he said. "The U.S. EPA as a result of that court ruling has the [authority] to mandate reductions….Yes, there would be some efforts in the legislative branch to remove that authority but anything in the legislative branch of that sort would be vetoed by the president."

[wastedyears]

Do the courts have any authority at all over something like that?

[twhitak]

Great! First, our pets need lawyers. Now the climate gets one. What next?

[dforest]

The destruction of our free country is almost complete.

[massgopguy]

Only Kafka knows.

[Gargantua]

Tell Gore for me that if he doesn't stop this ridiculous Global Whining lie about "rising temperatures" I'm gonna find him and slap his fat faggot teeth loose.

;-/

[Signalman]

When is open revolt against the current US government going to occur? (Not that I’m advocating this, of couse):>}

[jimfree]

I look forward to discovery.

[BubbaBasher]

I guess they haven't read State of Fear by Micheal Crichton. A lawsuit may force the government to prove that CO2 is actually causing AGW. They would certainly lose that trial.

[WOBBLY BOB]

not if they get a tobacco judge...

[WOBBLY BOB]

a padded cell for Manbearpig?

[VR-21]

Two days ago I e-mailed Glen Beck and asked why he’s never shined his light on the relationship between Armand Hammer and the Gore family. I’m continuously amazed at how squalid the modern American left is.

[Rca2000]

My tagline says it all...

[BJClinton]

Tort reform needs to be the central theme of the GOP in 2010.

[BenLurkin]

Only if there are laws passed by the legislature — unless the judges intend to make up their own laws.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Former Vice President Al Gore and current White House climate change czar Carol Browner are warning companies and lawmakers that the courts will step in to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress fails to act."

So let me see, they are willing to subject their rediculous global warming climate change theories to the rigors of court cross examination?

I don't think so.

They will attack (maybe through the courts) with some other line of argumentation.

[wastedyears]

unless the judges intend to make up their own laws.

That's probably what they intend on doing.

[kennedy]

Do the courts have any authority at all over something like that?

The Constitution says whatever 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices say it says.

The Supreme Court Justices and appellate and district court judges that Obama appoints will be writing laws controlling every aspect of our lives for the next 30 years.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !