Judge rules that kids can sue the US government for inaction on climate change

Science Alert ^ | April 14, 2016 | Fiona MacDonald

[biggredd1]

Palin: willie nye is a kids actor
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/276365-palin-bill-nye-as-much-as-scientist-as-i-am

[MileHi]

"This decision is one of the most significant in our nation’s history," said the kids' attorney, Philip Gregory.

Yes it is. It illustrates just how friggin insane this nation has gone.

[God luvs America]

so they should be able to sue obama for all the debt he’s put them in....

[mylife]

Dumb***es all around!

Lord just take me now! LOL

[TexasTransplant]

Older Generations need reciprocation ...

I choose Heads on Pikes ... hell if we are going to go Dark Age Stupid, let’s get with the Customs of the Times.

[MileHi]

Just nuts

[BradtotheBone]

So, if that’s the case, then shouldn’t kids be able to sue the government over inaction on the spiraling federal debt?

[wny]

To quote the great Mark Steyn:

"No civilization can survive this kind of institutionalized stupidity"

[CivilWarBrewing]

Some day an actual PHYSICAL war will be required to be waged upon FEMALES.. Now CHILDREN? Ohhhh nooooo!

[Kozak]

Can they sue for spending them into perpetual serfdom?

[Washi]

All we can say in response to that boss statement is that, if the adults aren’t going to do anything about climate change, we’re glad these incredible kids are stepping up. The power is yours!

The cartoons my generation watched on Saturday morning didn't turn us in to vapid, blithering idiots, for some reason.

I still root for the Coyote though. Friggin' RoadRunner.

[Lurker]

Time for impeachment.

L

[smokingfrog]

Plaintiffs further allege that defendants' acts and omissions violate the implicit right, via the Ninth Amendment, to a stable climate and an ocean and atmosphere free from dangerous levels of CO2. Finally, plaintiffs allege that defendants have violated the public trust doctrine, secured by the Ninth Amendment, by denying future generations essential natural resources.

Justice Antonin Scalia has expressed the view, in the dissenting opinion of Troxel v. Granville 530 U.S. 57 (2000), that:

The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution’s refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges’ list against laws duly enacted by the people.

[stylin19a]

kids have standing ? in a case where the science is iffy ? and they can’t prove they have been harmed.

but voters\lawyers\senators\presidential candidates have no standing when questioning presidential eligibility, which can be proved as harmful\unconstitutional ?

did I just make a bad straw man ?

[kaehurowing]

Now watch the Obama administration roll over and enter into a “consent decree” that judicially forces the government to do all sorts of things that would never be agreed to by Congress or anybody else.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Why don’t they just off themselves and do us all a favor?

[VTenigma]

I hope they all walked to court.

[cld51860]

This cannot be happening.

[dirtboy]

Hey, MileHi, how you doing?

[D_Idaho]

Bingo!