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IBD ^ | June 5, 2008

[Kaslin]

Environment: Global warming alarmists haven't made much progress in getting lawmakers to join their cause. So naturally they're going to try to use the courts to ram through their agenda.

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Drawing upon a lawyer's talent for dreaming up novel — and in this case outrageous — legal theories, a University of Oregon law professor is pushing the idea that the atmosphere is public property held in trust by the government, which has the duty to protect it from harm. The biggest problem with this idea is that it's beginning to gain some attention.

After hearing Oregon law professor Mary Wood speak at an environmental law conference in March, a group of 30 interested attorneys formed a task force to find ways to take her theory "from the classroom to the courtroom," the Corvallis Gazette-Times has reported.

Wood's approach is based on her complaint that "no government is taking responsibility" for the atmosphere "and our government is sitting idle while this catastrophe is unfolding."

"You can't find an atmospheric obligation in the statutes because Congress hasn't written any statutes," she said.

[steelyourfaith]

Bizarre assault on reason.

 

Calculate your one-day Carbon Belch !

[nmh]

Wood’s strategy is typical of the political left, which runs to the courts when its urge to organize everyone’s lives has bumped against our republican system of government. It’s a way for a few who think they know best to force their will on the many who don’t want their lives invaded on behalf of special interests.

Unfortunately, we fear that lawmakers might soon be willing to do what the Woods and Al Gores of the world want them to without the need of judicial orders, the support of science or a constitutional foundation. The public needs to catch on to the problems with the global warming theory before legislators do too much damage.

[bruinbirdman]

""You can't find an atmospheric obligation in the statutes because Congress hasn't written any statutes," she said."

There might be a legal precedent in the old "acid rain" interstate cooperative regulations.

yitbos

[pankot]

God save us from lawyers. To quote a comic strip “lawyers,liars,what’s the difference?”