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Posted on 08/19/2007 5:56:26 AM PDT by Renfield
A little birdie recently chirped about some usual-suspect state attorneys general preparing a litigation strategy document for/with environmental pressure groups, providing a roadmap for cooperatively replicating the tobacco litigation of a decade ago in the "global warming" context, substituting that projected catastrophe for cancer and "big energy" for tobacco companies.
The point of such exercise would not be to litigate the matter to conclusion — ever more challenging what with forced corrections of the temperature record, recent exposure of the woeful reliability of our own world's most reliable surface measuring network, and of course no global warming in a decade (or, we now know, since 1900 for that matter) — but to extract massive settlements from the energy industry to further fund the trial lawyers, greens and the greens' pet projects. Just imagine the anti-energy campaign that this model would yield! And at no cost, really, except to anyone who uses energy and/or invests in these sleepy "granny stocks". Oh, and the economy......
(Excerpt) Read more at planetgore.nationalreview.com ...
Too bad they didn’t write in the Constitution that no lawyer would be allowed to hold public office.
If we let the lawyers cripple our energy industry, it will have a devastating effect on our economy in the short and long haul. This country runs on energy. Most people have little clue what’s involved here.
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Indeed, trial lawyers are gearing up to turn global warming into their next pot of gold. A coalition of environmental groups and cities are suing the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Export-Import Bank of the United States for making loans to finance oil pipelines, oil drilling, and similar projects that supposedly result in a net emission of billions of tons of carbon dioxide. After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans trial lawyers Gerald Mapes and Timothy Porter sued dozens of energy companies, claiming they had contributed to global warming.and
Top Dallas firm Thompson & Knight started a dedicated climate-change practice June 4 with 26 lawyers. Monday, Dallas' Vinson & Elkins will unveil its 41-lawyer group, headed by a former senior counsel for the World Bank.
The law firms – and a dozen others nationwide – are getting ready for a predicted explosion of climate-related work tied to government regulation, lawsuits against energy companies and new markets that will trade the rights to emit carbon.
Most people don’t smoke, so the tobacco settlement didn’t affect them. Of those who do, most feel guilty about smoking and never put up a fuss over the settlement. GW lawsuits will be different. They will affect everyone and most people do not feel guilty about CO2. I don’t think that it will get very far before there is a popular backlash.
Latest Weather Channel Headline: 8-19-07
GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE COULD SNUFF THE BUTT!
Unfortunately, "popular backlash" does NOTHING. (Look at the popular backlash against illegal invasion to see how much it means).
When corporate interests (cheap labor) buys the politico's with massive contribuitons to keep them in office, the popular backlash is insignicant or less.
Follow the money and you'll find that enforcement of the law is selective; this is all about the MONEY to be made by Lawyers, a new hidden "tax" on energy companies, which will be (as always) paid by the consumers and taxpayers. There's no end to these taxes-via-megabucks-class action lawsuits.
If this succeeds, the floodgates will open. Lawsuits against energy companies for causing tornadoes, dry weather, wet weather,,,you name it.
Sounds like a job for Paul Kersey.
This had better not succeed.
First of all, there is no way to prove any cause and effect regarding specific weather.
Secondly, if the energy companies are at fault, so is every single person, including the lawyers and judges. Just the act of holding trials will result in more carbon to be emitted than would have happened without the trials.
Thirdly, if it does succeed, I see economic collapse and possible worldwide revolutions once the people get fed up with living like cave men again.
Imo it did give the option at least to disallow them from the legislative or executive positions. As emissaries of the court lawyers are imo part of the judicial branch of government. Therefore when a lawyer becomes a legislator or president.. they are violating the seperation of powers act.
I honestly believe the issue is going to hit us in the near future.. We've got to get our lawyers under control, who are wrecking our economy.. eg.. forcing firms to outsource just to avoid liability even when its more expensive. And wrecking our healthcare system, by putting a parasitic extraordinarily wealthy class of people in charge of medicine, who profit from not understanding it.
Thats what they will go for, a tax on gasoline that will go to the lawyers and judges.. maybe 30-50 cents a gallon. That everyone will be mandated to pay.
Also just the act of holding trials even if the oil companies somehow win the rigged game, where the judges benefit from having as many trials as possible going forward.. Even if they win a lawsuit they still have to pay the legal costs.. And to pay for that the companies will need to up the prices they charge on oil. Probably only a penny or two at first more per gallon.
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