CA: Attorney general takes global warming fight to the air (Moonbeam goes after airliner emissions)

Contra Costa Times ^ | 12/5/07 | Steve Geissinger

[rellimpank]

-—more on Moonbeam—

—http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934992/posts

[Red Badger]

Madness! Absolute and total madness!.........A liberal with a law degree is a most dangerous combination......

[Waco]

How much CO2 do these people emit while filing this nonsense? To bad
they can’t be genectly modified so that a 3rd leg would grow outa the top of their head, giving us a quick way of spotting them fore they can do any harm.

[farlander]

Don’t they have better things to do in CA other than wasting taxpayer money ? Isn’t the damn state already overburdened with debt as it is ?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Attorney General Jerry Brown -- declaring instant victory on a tobacco suit Tuesday -- plans to file a complaint today demanding that U.S. regulators force airliners and other aircraft to spew lesser amounts of greenhouse gases.

Presumably the private jets flown by Laurie David and Al Gore would be exempt.

[MNlurker]

A simple announcement that a suspension of all air travel to and from California will go into effect immediately (just in time for the holidays) because of a fear of AG lawsuits should fill up his phone banks enough to get the moron to shut up for awhile.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

America is at that awkward stage.
It is too late to work within the system,
but too early to shoot the bastards.
- Claire Wolfe

[bill1952]

It is too late to work within the system,
but too early to shoot the bastards.
- Claire Wolfe

I think that its well time enough for some good citizens to be thinking about the undergirding and overarching principles that drove the 2nd amendment, and what TJ had to say on the matter of a government run amuck ...

[YOUGOTIT]

Stop all flights into and out of California. As a matter of fact stop all shipments of gasoline and oil also so that we in the United States can live as we want to live and not as some DA in anti-American California lives.

[Tarpon]

Perhaps moonbeam would like to set the example and stop breathing? It might not solve the total problem of CO2 emissions, but every little bit helps.

[HKMk23]

A liberal with a law degree is a most dangerous combination...

Yeah, sorta like a toddler with a loaded .357 Magnum.

Just like the toddler, everything is about how they FEEL, they have ZERO concept of the gravity of their actions, no concept whatsoever of the long-range impacts, nor do they care to find out. Just like the toddler, if you attempt to inform them, they stop their ears and begin chanting, "Nah-nah-nah-nah, I can't hear you, I can't hear you...!"

Take comfort; Hell awaits.

[Red Badger]

The scaredest I have ever been in my entire life was when my wife’s nephew, then about 5 or 6, got ahold of his grandpa’s shotgun one Christmas and came into the living room and pointed it at me......

[HKMk23]

As a very young boy, one of my brothers-in-law found his Dad’s gun (don’t know whether it was his semi-auto pistol or his bolt-action .30-06), and unwittingly blasted a tire on their car.

[Red Badger]

He had seen his grandpa out huntin and I guess he was gonna do the same..........My heart froze for a few seconds while I thought of whether the gun was loaded or not, it wasn’t........

[Polynikes]

“As a very young boy, one of my brothers-in-law found his Dad’s gun (don’t know whether it was his semi-auto pistol or his bolt-action .30-06), and unwittingly blasted a tire on their car.”

Would it be safe to say that had a negative impact on his ability to sit down for the next day or so? :)

[MarxSux]

“...the pollution has a greater global warming effect than if the emissions were at ground level”

Is there a scientific basis for this assertion?

[Polynikes]

My guess is that Moonbeam is just engaging in a little political theater for the radical/leftie/Greenie constituencies to better position himself for another run at the Governors office.

[dragnet2]

Stop all flights into and out of California.

After seeing who is getting off most of these flights, that might not be such a bad idea. I wished most of these people would go to Vegas or Florida...We have enough people.

That being said, I would hate to live underneath the flight path or approach/departure to a major airport...Those folks are being dusted 24/7...Glad I don't.

[lowbridge]

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