This is a rather timely article. Guitarcarver noted yesterday
It should be remembered that the lead attorney for the tobacco case has said the case was never about injury, it was about getting a settlement. It was about money, and had nothing to do with consumer protection or truth.
A redistribution of Other People’s money (especially to themselves) is certainly a big part of the ‘climate change’ push, being a subset of the greater Progressive cult. And it certainly helps with the political power and control they want
Scale of climate damages ‘could dwarf tobacco lawsuits’
As ExxonMobil case divides US top lawyers, campaigners advise governments to take on fossil fuel interests or face court themselvesGovernments will face rising demands for climate compensation unless they crack down on coal, oil and gas companies operating within their authority
That was the conclusion of a report by Australia-based NGO the Climate Justice Programme on Tuesday.
Victims of global warming such as citizens from small island states will increasingly look for redress in the courts, it warned. The scale of damages could dwarf previous mass actions like those against tobacco and asbestos companies.
“Although there is this group of fossil fuel corporations who have been the primary actors in climate change, governments have colluded to allow them to continue to be so embedded in the economy,†Australian lawyer and report co-author Keely Boom told Climate Home.
What’s the old saying, follow the money? And where, exactly, will this money end up? With the people who are supposedly harmed by ‘climate change’, or with the groups and lawyers who are sue happy? Warmists have set a standard where nothing can disprove their pet theory, because everything is blamed on their pet theory.
Strangely, so many of these Warmists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels.
Most “warmists” favor reduction not abstinence
And of course as a nation we have been reducing our carbon footprint
Most “warmists†want money and demand others do what they will not..
There. Fixed that for ya.
John,
Actually, warmist desire power and control of global government. They could give a care about the climate.
Oooopz !!! Sorry
I thought I was a “warmist”
The Pope ??? Is he warmist?
Dali Lama?
Just how does one gain “power” by advocating for solar panels on the roofs of others?
Now Exxon. They don’t want money it power ?
Tony Montano in Scarface. He wanted money and power, does that make him a “warmist” ?
Most of the big electric producers like Duke Power are already trying to become less of a power producer and more into the transmission of electricity than the production No one is willing anylobgervto invest billions on a coal plant with a 30-50 year service life coal companies are all in bankruptcy courts and their stocks gave fallen 90%
Of course they must be looking into the 30-50 year future, not into the past
When both the Saudis and Abu Dhabi sign contracts and invest billions in solar some will say OBAMA MADE THEM DO IT!!! The Sadus are pumping as fast as they can, they see the future on the horizon, where the Age of Oil ends it will no longer dominate energy production
Coal us Victirian Age power it is on the way out
Solar prices fall each year and will continue to fall
Climate realists want us all to stop producing quite so much CO2, slowing the rate of warming. Maybe even halting warming!!
The tobacco companies were and continue to be responsible for 100s of thousands of deaths in the US each year. Sure the execs should be in prison but that doesn’t pay for healthcare and funeral expenses. The smoking rate in the US has been cut almost two thirds over the past 50 years. To the chagrin of tobacco pushers the rate amongst youngsters has been cut in half in just the past 18 years, coincidentally since the major tobacco settlement. The goal was to reduce smoking and to recoup some of the costs that tobacco smoking inflicts on Americans. It’s called corporate responsibility but it’s a shame it has to be forced on some corporations.
The fear of a tobacco type settlement with fossil fuel companies is their bete noir.
Yet it is the AG’s that are breaking the law and not Exxon.
By colluding with outside groups and looking to silence First Amendment speech, the AG’s are violating Federal law. By slow playing FOIA requests as they are, they are violating the law.
The AG’s and the warmists are on a dishing expedition and that is unConstitutional. But liberals don’t care about the Constitution or the freedom of anyone.
As for the tobacco lawsuit, it was not about seeking anything but money. It wasn’t about throwing anyone in jail as some would have you believe. But now as the tobacco money is drying up and the states have used that money in ways not authorized by the settlement agreements, the states want more money which is why they are going after Exxon.
But there is a flip side of this as well. If Exxon is being accused of fraud (often said by those who have no idea of the real definition of fraud,) then the people who gave tax breaks, heralded technologies and breakthroughs in the energy fields that cost taxpayers millions and billions of dollars are guilty of fraud as well. The companies took money under false pretenses and the governments gave it to them under false pretense.
Making false promises for financial gain is fraud. Let’s throw the warmists who did that in jail as well.
Such embicillic bullshit. These people are all fully aware that smoking could very well kill them and certainly is harmful to their health. THEY CHOOSE TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS AS AMERICANS and the freedoms guaranteed them to do what they feel they want to do without someone like you attempting to take away their freedoms.
A tobaco type lawsuit against fossil fuels would destroy the worlds economy.
Of course we know people like Jeffery and John are communists who want to see the demise of capitalism.
Let me define capitalism for you:
Simple Definition of capitalism
: a way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) are owned by individual people and companies rather than by the government
Full Definition of capitalism
: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
This type of litigation is an all out attempt to nationalize the Fossil fuel industry…….YOU KNOW….sorta like what Socialist/Communist nations do.
Let their be no mistake…..AGW is an agenda to turn the new world order into a communist nirvana…..rather an oxymoron….but none the less.