Well, you know what my recommendation is: Warmists should give up their own fossil fuels usage if they’re so upset. Of course, that would interfere with their lifestyles, and do things like driving and flying to “climate change” protests, like all the ones they held Tuesday, which was Earth Day. Typical climahypocrisy. Anyhow
Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court
Big Carbon is where Big Tobacco was, before it started losing.
Funny thing is, Warmists would be some of the first to complain when the price of everything, not just fuel, spikes.
In November 2013, American climate scientist Richard Heede, of the Colorado-based Climate Accountability Institute, published a paper with a revolutionary thesis. After nine years of researching the energy industry in dozens of countries, he concluded that nearly two-thirds of the world’s carbon dioxide and methane emissions dating back to the dawn of the industrial era were the responsibility of just ninety companies. Heede called them the “carbon majors.†(snip)
One well-established environmental lawyer is in the preliminary stages of putting together a lawsuit employing Heede’s statistics. Other attorneys were quick to praise the study, but cautioned that no one has yet hit upon a legal theory that can use Heede’s work to force the carbon majors to cough up some of the astronomical sums that experts believe must be spent worldwide to adapt to rising seas, heat waves, droughts and other extreme-weather events caused by climate change—not to mention help pay for the damage already caused.
In other words, they really, really want to sue, but have no legal basis other than climahysteria. In reality, the majority of lawsuits involving “climate change” have lost in court. The climaplaintiffs always prefer that these get settled before going to trial, because the actual facts needed in a court of law are not available.
“The anti-tobacco guys lost and lost and lost in court for decades—until they won,†says Kert Davies, who worked on the breakthrough case on behalf of Oakland, Boulder and other cities while a researcher at Greenpeace. “That’s point number one. Plus, advocates like me can say that we don’t care if we win as long as we make a point.
“We want to influence the court of public opinion,†Davies continues. “We have to educate people about the truth after all this industry disinformation. So let the lawsuits produce documents and testimony and all sorts of information for the public. That’s one of their functions. That’s where the tobacco wars were won. Even [Representative Henry] Waxman’s famous tobacco hearings in Congress—the tobacco execs never admitted anything. You didn’t need to get to that. By the time they left the hearing room, they were already pariahs. We’d seen through them.â€
The flip side is that Warmists have to produce their own documents and testimony, and Warmists tend to get beaten like Walter Mondale in 1984 when they have to argue their facts and positions (hence the reason most do not like to debate). It’s not enough to prove warming: most of us will stipulate 1.4F increase since 1850. Having to prove that it is mostly/solely mankind’s fault is the rub. Which Warmists can only do with skewed and falsified data, failed computer models, reading crystal balls, and hysteria.
