Is This The Most Asinine Sentence Ever Written About ‘Climate Change’?

Issues & Insights ^ | 16 Aug 2023 | I&I Ed Board

[Rummyfan]

In reporting on a Montana case in which a judge ruled that the state had to include the climate effect of oil and gas permits before deciding on them, the Associated Press showed just how brain-dead the discussions of “global warming” have become.

District Court Judge Kathy Seeley ruled in favor of several young plaintiffs – ranging in age from 5 to 22 – saying they “have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, which includes climate as part of the environmental-support system.”

As proof of the harm the plaintiffs are suffering, the order has a list of horribles that includes:

“Olivia expressed despair due to climate change.”

“Badge is anxious when he thinks about the future that he, and his potential children, will inherit.”

“Grace … is anxious about climate change.”

“Mica gets frustrated when he is required to stay indoors during the summer because of wildfire smoke.”

(Perhaps the judge should have ruled against the adults who are filling these poor children’s minds with climate alarmist fantasies, but that’s another story.)

[Rummyfan]

[Red Badger]

If they don’t like it they should move......................

[HartleyMBaldwin]

a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment

I'll have to read the Constitution again soon, because I sure don't remember that part anywhere.

[Carriage Hill]

Me neither.
If you find it, please CC me...

[KC Burke]

District Court Judge Kathy Seeley

There is your problem, right there.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It might be somewhere amongst the penumbras, maybe near the Constitutional right to kill babies.

[Walrus]

When a judge exhibits total constitutional ignorance like this, she should be removed from the bench forthwith.

[gitmo]

I'll have to read the Constitution again soon, because I sure don't remember that part anywhere.

Hint: it’s immediately after The Separation of Church And State clause.

[gundog]

I’m guessing that “being anxious” about gun rights restrictions would not be regarded as standing, in this court.

[gitmo]

More horse hockey from the courts.

[glennaro]

Actually, I found it right after the federal government’s authority to regulate light bulbs, gas stoves and, of course, toilets.

[KC Burke]

[ConservativeInPA]

District Court Judge Kathy Seeley

Notice how feminism continues to destroy America. Do feminists care about anything other than advancing Marxist ideology? Nope. It’s affirmative action the way and neglecting raising children and supporting the family in the home. Repeal the 19th.

[Rummyfan]

In any event, it was up to the crack reporters and editors at the once respectable Associated Press to come up with what is perhaps the most asinine sentence ever written about this issue.

“The ruling following a first-of-its-kind trial in the U.S.,” the AP reported, “adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.”

“A government duty to protect citizens from climate change”?

[BatGuano]

The truth is: fearing climate change is ASININE!

As asinine as fearing that the sky is falling.

[reasonisfaith]

by the way, if wildfire smoke is a concern then mandate the deep state to stop setting the fires.

[Vigilanteman]

Wildfires are mainly due to ecotard prohibitions on environmentally responsible logging and clearing of dry undergrowth.

Have you ever heard of a massive forest fire in a forest owned by Weyerhaeuser, Boise Cascade or Georgia Pacific? Why do you suppose that is?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Huh?

[Rummyfan]

It’s radical anti-growth environmentalists – aided by brain-dead reporters – not oil and gas companies, who are the biggest threats to the health, safety, and well-being of those kids in Montana.

[outofsalt]

They should sue Canada because of the penumbra their smoke formed over Montana.