Posted on 04/21/2018 6:14:56 AM PDT by rktman
This Earth Day (April 22) we need to ask whether environmentalism has gone completely bonkers.
Back in the 1970s, I skied Colorado’s cross-country and downhill slopes pretty regularly. Some years were incredible: many feet of snow as glorious to behold as to ski on. Other years, like 1977, I’d come around a bend on my XC skis, see nothing but rock in front of me, and just ditch.
Who knew the industry I worked for in the later 70s was causing these climate and weather mood swings – even then, long before carbon dioxide levels hit the cataclysmic 400 ppm mark? Who knew profit-hungry oil companies were already preventing the Centennial State from having endless seasons of perfect ski conditions, followed by ample spring meltwater for cities, agriculture and trout streams?
I say this because the People’s Republic of Boulder, CO has joined Oakland, San Francisco, New York and other liberal enclaves in suing for “climate relief.” Boulder doesn’t share the CA/NY worries about rising seas. Even Al Gore doesn’t claim the Pacific Ocean will reach the Mile High City anytime soon.
Boulderites want the courts to force ExxonMobil and Suncor to pay treble damages for causing too much snow and thus floods in some years, too little snow and thus droughts and poor ski conditions in other years; multiple heat waves in some years, bitter cold in others. They seek unspecified cash for climate adaptation, repair and reparation expenses – and restoration of idyllic conditions of selected past years.
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The very first Earth Day was Apr 22, 1970, Lenin’s 100th birthday.
“Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.”
Earth Day - Wikipedia
“Lenin was born in Simbirsk on 22 April 1870” - Wikipedia
So the Oilcos have essentially expressed agreement with the premises of the plaintiffs. That does not bode well for their futrue in court.
40 degrees in Philly this morning! We have been 15 degrees below average pretty much all spring.
That must be due to it being hotter than usual some place else.
Boulder is too crowed. Nobody goes there anymore.
50 or so years ago it was pretty nice. I know, that’s so last century.
Boulder is too crowded. Nobody goes there anymore.
LOL! Careful, you double tapped that one.
It was a spelling fix.
Auto correct is way worse than the contextual spelling, grammar and usage checker in AmiPro of decades ago that was somehow able to git ‘er done on a 486.
Besides, it was way easier to find free parking in Boulder in the 80s than it is now.
You should have seen it in the mid ‘60’s. LOL!
Even if one believes in CO2-based global warming, selling petroleum products does almost nothing to the atmosphere. If they’re serious, they should be suing the people who burn the stuff (and that includes themselves).
Like the lawyer in a park in Brookly last Saturday?
It is snowing right now in the Boulder area.
I remember it snowed there in the ‘60’s too. Weird huh? LOL! We had some Monday night here in Reno and again on Wed. I was hoping it would hold off until this weekend but much to my dismay, the weather will be awesome for erf day. Love the smell of burning rubber on a bright sunny day.
I celebrate Erf day by taking my 67 GTO out for a day of fast criminal behavior on the city streets. The car gets an honest 14 MPG if you keep your foot out of it. I don’t keep my foot out of it very much.
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