Children win right to sue US government on actions causing climate change

Tree Hugger ^ | 14 Nov 2016 | Kimberley Mok

[Swordmaker]

The kiddies will need to prove that climate change is caused by people and it can be stopped. It will also have to prove that it’s being changed for the worse and demonstrate what the ideal climate target would be.

Uh, actually, no, they don't have to prove that. The Judge says those facts are accepted science and are given as true. . . they only have to prove that the government is doing nothing to ameliorate the problem and should be ordered to DO IT, to take all necessary steps to maintain the atmospheric CO₂ levels below 350 parts per million spending whatever it costs to do so, or else. LOL!

The idiotic judge claims these 'poor little children' have shown they have been injured and therefor have standing to sue because one, for example, suffered when the house he or she lived in experienced a flood that came up to his or her ankles and damaged the carpeting. . . and it was a flood that was expected to occur only once every 1000 years, but had been accelerated by storms caused by man-made global warming to now occur much more frequently and could be expect to recur often, causing even more damage to this child! Oh my, lions, tigers and bears, Oh My! Oh, and the oceans are rising. . . indisputably. Proven facts. . . After all, President Obama said in a State of the Union speech that "Climate Change is the number one most dangerous thing we face." Therefore the defendant has already admitted culpability, so that proof is no longer required.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The suit filed by these little brown shirts and their wanker lawyer won’t stand on appeal.

[sergeantdave]

“...when an Oregon federal judge ruled that the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was valid and could proceed in court.”

Looks like Congress has cause to remove a kook from the bench for gross mental deficiency.

[Sgt_Schultze]

This crap is exactly why Trump won the election. Normal Americans see this stuff as idiocy. The extremists see it as common sense.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I don’t know. Obama has pretty much stacked the courts with extremists.