Posted on 06/27/2024 7:05:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Things aren’t going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year.
The electric vehicle movement is stalled out, solar and wind power are both still fringe forms of energy, and the green candidates got crushed in recent elections in Europe because voters are sick of the higher prices associated with green policies.
So having struck out with consumers, businesses and at the ballot box, now the greens are moving on to the courts. The climate change industrial complex has now joined forces with trial lawyers to advance their war on fossil fuels.
One of the more absurd lawsuits happened in Hawaii.
There, a group of 13 teenagers — honest, I’m not making this up — sued Hawaii’s government over its use of fossil fuels. Environmental law firms Our Children’s Trust and Earthjustice claim that Hawaii’s natural resources are imperiled by CO2 emissions. Even if that were true, shouldn’t they be suing China?
The settlement will require the state to eliminate fossil fuels from its transportation system by 2045, and also formally recognizes the right to file future lawsuits against other parties.
Gov. Josh Green even stood next to the young plaintiffs as he read a statement claiming, “This settlement informs how we as a state can best move forward to achieve life-sustaining goals.”
There’s so much that’s wrong about this decision. How did a bunch of teenagers possibly have standing to sue? What possible harm have they suffered from fossil fuels?
The irony is that this island paradise in the Pacific — whose primary industry is tourism — is going to collapse without fossil fuels. With no jets and cruise ships allowed, will tourists and business travelers have to arrive by sailboat?
But this new technique of using lawsuits to advance the anti-fossil fuels movement has spread to other states. Last August, a judge ruled that GOP-dominated Montana violated its constitution when it approved fossil fuel projects without taking climate change into account.
After recent flooding in Vermont, green activists sued the state for not abolishing fossil fuels.
Massachusetts is suing Exxon Mobil for adverse weather conditions........
Leftist lawyers. That is the real problem.
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“group of 13 teenagers — honest, I’m not making this up — sued Hawaii’s government over its use of fossil fuels.”
And they had “standing.” Interesting. I guess we all have to vote harder.
A legal system which allows leftist lawyers to operate, that’s the real problem.
Climate is just weather and if the idiot judge tries to ban oil will he/she/it also ban forest fires and volcanoes ,LOL
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
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You are correct.
Said before and needing repetition- If every country on Earth confiscated every penny beyond bare subsistence from every person alive and spent it all on “climate”, they could not affect the global temperature by one degree or the sea levels by an inch.
If every human disappeared tomorrow, the Earth would continue in its slightly irregular orbit of the Sun, with its little wobble, as it has since God set it spinning. Winter, spring, summer and fall would progress as always. Natural cycles would continue; global temperatures would change periodically, glaciers would advance and retreat, ocean levels would rise and fall, deserts would become savannas and savannas would become forests or wetlands. Some forests and wetlands would revert to desert. Over eons of time tectonic forces would push up mountains and volcanoes would erupt, and over more eons they would be worn down by wind and rain.
This would continue until the day of the Lord’s choosing, when our Sun goes nova and reduces the planet to ash. The main difference is that there would be no liberals around to lie about it.
I think Oil is a byproduct from the earth’s core and renewable ,LOL
“Leftist lawyers. That is the real problem.”
Badly written laws are the problem.
I suggest:
This law may only be enforced by the EPA.
Unless previously specifically authorized by the President, an EPA enforcement action exceeding $10 million in impact shall cease.
“There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel”
coal
Out of curiosity, could one sue these teenagers for using fossil fuels, or anything derived thereof?
Perhaps it’s time to go Alinsky on their behinds. Make them live up to their own standards.
$20 says the first day without electricity they start bitching up a storm.
“Leftist lawyers. That is the real problem.”
Bad open-ended laws are the problem.
The President shall have the authority via USCIS to issue refugee humanitarian parole for up to 10,000 individuals per year. Furthermore, any of unused parole authorizations of the 10,000 may be banked to a separate total of 12,000 for use of up to 2,000 in any month of any future year.
The Secretary of Education shall have authority under this Act only for military reserve personnel called up to active duty.
That would be possible if the Left had principles. They don’t. Instead, they have goals.
“Will Judges Ban Fossil Fuels?”
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Only for the little people and the masses, not for themselves and their elitist ilk. They will all still fly, drive and use plenty of fossil fuels to maintain their cushy lifestyles.
Bans for thee, but but not for me.
The Left has goals, unimpeded by any serious resistance from the Right. Winning is easy when your opponents are weak.
“..Will judges ban fossil fuels?..”
That all depends on whether the other politicians pay them enough to do so. It shouldn’t take too much..
stochastic global warming
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