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Judges plan to outlaw climate change 'denial’
Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10/11/2015 | Christopher Booker

Posted on 10/12/2015 3:31:51 PM PDT by RightGeek

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Including senior judges and lawyers from across the world, the three-day conference on “Climate Change and the Law” was staged in London’s Supreme Court. It was funded, inter alia, by the Supreme Court itself, the UK government and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

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The purpose of this strange get-together was outlined in a keynote speech (visible on YouTube) by Philippe Sands, a QC from Cherie Blair’s Matrix Chambers and professor of law at University College, London. Since it is now unlikely that the world will agree in Paris to a legally binding treaty to limit the rise in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees C from pre-industrial levels, his theme was that it is now time for the courts to step in, to enforce this as worldwide law.

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“The most important thing the courts could do,” he said, was to hold a top-level “finding of fact”, to settle these “scientific disputes” once and for all: so that it could then be made illegal for any government, corporation (or presumably individual scientist) ever to question the agreed “science” again. Furthermore, he went on, once “the scientific evidence” thus has the force of binding international law, it could be used to compel all governments to make “the emissions reductions that are needed”, including the phasing out of fossil fuels, to halt global warming in its tracks.

The fact that it could be seriously proposed in the highest courtroom in the land that the law should now be used to suppress any further debate ... speaks volumes about the curious psychological state to which the great global warming scare has reduced so many of the prominent figures who today exercise power and influence over the life of our Western societies.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: globalwarming
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1 posted on 10/12/2015 3:31:51 PM PDT by RightGeek
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
meanwhile...

Is it a criminal offense to tweet 'Kill All White Men'?


2 posted on 10/12/2015 3:33:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: RightGeek

But under his breath he muttered, “It’s not getting warmer.”


3 posted on 10/12/2015 3:35:24 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: RightGeek

Wow, so the science is lacking in every way, but because we believe anyway, it needs to be codified into LAW to FORCE OUR VIEWS ON YOU!

If the science cannot stand on it’s own merits, is it science?


4 posted on 10/12/2015 3:38:45 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: RightGeek

This is Western Civilization collapses. The very idea behind this conclave is a rejection of every aspect of the Enlightenment, and they damn well know it.

This is medieval shit - straight up.


5 posted on 10/12/2015 3:39:32 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: RightGeek
Captukkjre
6 posted on 10/12/2015 3:40:13 PM PDT by smartyaz
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To: RightGeek
Galileo apparently failing to impress at his Inquisition. At the time, 97% of scientists were certain that the sun went around the earth and the earth was the center of the universe.

The more stuff changes, the more stuff stays the same. Global Warming is the new religion and Al Gore, soon to be replaced by Prince Obama, is the GW Pope.


7 posted on 10/12/2015 3:41:10 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: RightGeek

How about we stop our governments giving money to the UN


8 posted on 10/12/2015 3:42:15 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RightGeek

Just watch Trump.
When he starts selling his ocean front property because of high water, I will pay attention.


9 posted on 10/12/2015 3:44:13 PM PDT by Darroll
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To: MUDDOG

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


10 posted on 10/12/2015 3:45:25 PM PDT by abclily
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To: RightGeek

The global climate could stay about the same for the next hundred years, it could get warmer, or it could get colder. Most people in the developed world instinctively prefer that it be warmer - or about the same as it is now - rather than cooler, so “global warming” as proved a hard sell. And we were all taught as kids that the ultimate fate of the earth will be a deep freeze as the sun eventually cools, so anything that staves off that day is welcomed rather than feared.


11 posted on 10/12/2015 3:48:33 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: abclily
"Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks."

That was brought home to me recently as I was looking at a globe of the earth at my mother's house. There are VAST areas of the earth where there is basically nobody.
12 posted on 10/12/2015 3:50:59 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: RightGeek

What is needed right now is for a list of the attendees to be released. Identifying the conspirators involved is the first step to stripping them of any authority or office.


13 posted on 10/12/2015 3:51:10 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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14 posted on 10/12/2015 3:54:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: RightGeek
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H.L. Mencken

15 posted on 10/12/2015 3:56:45 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: abclily
How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

Answer:

Through speck-al interest groups.

16 posted on 10/12/2015 3:57:53 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: RightGeek

Global warming zealots remind me of those cult nut jobs who worship aliens and think that a ship is going to come down to take them to space/heaven so they put on their best sneakers and drink the poison Kool-Aid.

Even if an if age came these global warmist f**ktards would be trying to sacrifice people on top of the glacier rolling over New York City.


17 posted on 10/12/2015 3:59:06 PM PDT by WMarshal (Either the mess gets fix or the Democrat Party and the Republican Parties will implode.)
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To: pfflier

Very good! Bonus points!


18 posted on 10/12/2015 4:02:53 PM PDT by abclily
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To: RightGeek
The waiters were turning back to their work. One of them approached with the gin bottle. Winston, sitting in a blissful dream, paid no attention as his glass was filled up. He was not running or cheering any longer. He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody. He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain.

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

19 posted on 10/12/2015 4:05:52 PM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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They’ll succeed right after they carry out that “Round Pi to 3.0 law.”


20 posted on 10/12/2015 4:08:10 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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