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I doubt this will go far, but, the cult will keep trying, and I bet they now file more of these nuisance suits

Oil companies face a wrongful death suit tied to climate change

A lawsuit filed in a Washington state court claims oil companies are responsible for the death of a woman in Seattle during a record-breaking heat wave several years ago.

The case marks the first time oil companies have been sued over the death of a person in a “climate disaster,” according to the Center for Climate Integrity, an advocacy group.

Julie Leon, 65, was found unresponsive in her car on June 28, 2021 — the hottest day in Seattle’s history. The temperature in the city that day peaked at 108 degrees Fahrenheit. By the time Leon died of hyperthermia, her internal temperature had risen to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in King County Superior Court.

The suit names six oil companies, including ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron, that have allegedly known for decades that burning fossil fuels alters the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in more extreme weather and the “foreseeable loss of human life.” But rather than warn the public, the suit says the oil companies deceived consumers about the risks.

“Defendants have known for all of Julie’s life that their affirmative misrepresentations and omissions would claim lives,” the lawsuit says. “Julie is a victim of Defendants’ conduct.”

Why did they wait almost four years to file the suit? If fossil fuels are so bad why was Ms. Leon in her car? Did it not have air conditioning? Why was she out and about?

In a rapid attribution study released days after the event, a team of scientists said the 2021 heatwave in the Pacific Northwest would have been “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.”

In other words, they made some mule-fritters up, but, do they know what the actual temperatures were during the Medieval Warm Period? How about the Roman Warm Period? And others over the last 8,000 year? That would be necessary for comparison.

A lawyer for Chevron, Theodore Boutrous, criticized the lawsuit. “Exploiting a personal tragedy to promote politicized climate tort litigation is contrary to law, science, and common sense,” Boutrous said in a statement to NPR. “The court should add this far-fetched claim to the growing list of meritless climate lawsuits that state and federal courts have already dismissed.”

If it is not thrown out, and makes it through trial and the plaintiffs win, it will eventually die on appeal once it makes it out of the far-left Washington area. Right now, other than reimbursement for certain costs, such as medical and funeral, they have left damages open-ended, hoping the jury will reward them big time. But, more importantly, that the jury (a jury trial is demanded) find the companies liable in order to create more lawsuits, because you know there must be cult groups behind the suit.