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Global warming lawsuit tossed out in San Francisco
The state of California wanted their global warming alarmist opinions validated via the court system. Thankfully, it didn’t work. Via AP:
A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world’s six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global warming.
In its lawsuit filed last year, California blamed the auto industry for millions of dollars it expects to spend on repairing damage from global-warming induced floods and other natural disasters.
But District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco handed California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s environmental crusade a stinging rebuke when he ruled that it impossible to determine to what extent automakers are responsible for global-warming damages in California. Many culprits, including other industries and even natural sources, are responsible for emitting carbon dioxide.
“The court is left without guidance in determining what is an unreasonable contribution to the sum of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere, or in determining who should bear the costs associated with global climate change that admittedly result from multiple sources around the globe,” Jenkins write.
The judge also ruled that keeping the lawsuit alive would threaten the country’s foreign policy position.
The Bush administration has consistently opposed any international treaty – including the 1997 Kyoto Protocol – that would impose cuts on greenhouse gases.
“President George W. Bush opposes the protocol because it exempts developing nations who are major emitters, fails to address two major pollutants, and would have a negative economic impact on the United States,” Jenkins wrote in his 24-page decision. To rule in favor of California would undermine the administration’s position, Jenkins said.
Jenkins said it’s up to lawmakers, rather than judges, to determine how responsible automakers are for global warming problems.
Jenkins ruled that a court “injecting itself into the global warming thicket at this juncture would require an initial policy determination of the type reserved for the political branches of government.”
The full ruling can be read here.
Finally, common sense prevails in San Francisco.
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Common sense in San Fran……a broken clock is right twice a day….
Common sense in . . . San Francisco??!!
Somebody pinch me . . . I must be dreaming.
(former) Governor Moonbeam’s at it again, eh?
If AG Brown and his Planeteers really wanted to save the environment, they could close down all of those freeways and surface streets in CA and make them into bike and jogging paths. It isn’t as if Big Auto snuck into the state one night and clandestinely put them there.
In the world of Jerry Brown, vile conspiracies abound, all managed by evildoers who manufacture and supply things. Brown himself is immune to their siren call, of course, never having spent a singe productive day in his life. But the rest of us – poor stupid fools who earn our living and use the ill gotten proceeeds to purchase items we deem useful – oh, we poor sheep need a selfless cursader (oops, sorry, bad word… I mean a selfless Jihadi) like Jerry to save us from our own worst impulses. In Jerry’s world, none of us would even have to suffer the indignity of working for a living, we’d all be happy contended sucklers at the governmental, er, trough. Just like him.
If these people really wanted to solve this, they would advocate the detonation of hydrogen bombs to send enough dust into the upper atmosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the surface.
I have a few targets to suggest for that approach. I’d say we could save the planet by evaporating N Korea, Iran, and most of the rest of the Middle East. Hey, it’s a tough thing, but we do need to save the planet, and you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
How about those Envirowakos do us a favor and stop breathing.Then the CO2 emissions coming out of their mouths would cease.
I am sure their sacrifice would be appreciated by the rest of us who will now breathe easier knowing they are gone.