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Rachel Marsden: Top climate change salesmen meet budget reality

Remember back in grade school when the kids who were so far ahead of everyone else in their classwork were allowed to indulge in little time-wasters, like blowing blobs of watery paint across paper through a straw until they passed out? That’s exactly what the West has been doing for the past few decades with their climate- change side quests. But now that they’re flunking economics, the fun is over.

I once did so many side quests when playing the Elder Scrolls Of Morrowind that I defeated the main bad guy at the end with no fuss. I was surprised I won so easily. I waste a lot of time at work doing nothing because I’m done with follow ups and waiting for a customer. But, when I have a customer I have no time for Twitter and blogs and reading my book

The floodgates to common sense have busted open, testing political natural selection. Take Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who when faced with a choice between his own political survival or persisting with the same “net zero” policies as the “UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance” that he founded and championed in pre-political life — before all banks ditched it, as the Canadian media reported last year. Guess which path he now favors as he finally rushes to build pipelines so Canada can realize its potential as an energy superpower? Still, he’s stuck explaining to at least one of the true believers, now citing environmental impact in ditching Carney’s Liberal Party, that “things change.”

But not nearly fast enough, apparently. Why do nations need to be in dire straits and faced with the threat of recession before the establishment stops getting high on its own emissions?

Another example is former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who’s now saying that it would be lunacy for the governing Labour Party, which he once headed, to stay on the path to legally binding “net zero” — that is, the notion that a country can somehow emit zero carbon while also not reverting back to the Stone Age. Blair now says that such policies are “doomed to fail,” according to the BBC.

The Mackerel of Reality eventually smacks the leaders of 1st world nations in the face, that they no longer have the luxury of playing with in the cult pool. That they have to get back to their homework.

Mainly because citizens’ enthusiasm for the government blowing their money has limits. And governments can’t afford to bail everyone out to keep these delusions on life support. Particularly when other countries are ignoring it entirely in favor of economic survival.

And the citizens get tired of more and more authoritarian government telling them what to do. It’s worth reading the whole thing, which ends with

Turns out the only things that were reliably hitting net zero were the national treasuries of Western nations and the public’s patience. Some of its chief salesmen are finally exiting the business. Too bad for those who bought their snake oil wholesale.

Even if we agreed that the current warm period is caused 51%+ by the actions of Mankind, why the need to have the government taking more and more of our money, life choices, and freedom? It’s almost like this isn’t about climate.

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Too bad they didn’t ask the kiddies if they have given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their lives carbon neutral

Ninth Circuit Court denies young Americans’ lawsuit challenging Trump’s handling of climate change

A legal effort by 22 young Americans to curb atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas emissions experienced a major setback Tuesday. The Ninth Circuit Court rejected a lawsuit seeking to reverse President Donald Trump’s efforts to expand fossil fuel development.

In a 10-page opinion, the Ninth Circuit wrote that the climate change-related injuries the plaintiffs reported in their litigation bear too tenuous a tie to a trio of executive orders they sought to reverse with the lawsuit.

Those executive orders, issued in the early days of Trump’s second term, directed federal agencies to “unleash” American energy, use emergency powers to expedite permitting for fossil fuel extraction, and identify and rescind actions that place an “undue burden [on] domestic energy resources” such as oil, gas, hydropower and biofuels.

Drawing extensive parallels between Juliana v. United States, a decade-long lawsuit seeking a federal climate response plan, the court foregrounded separation-of-power concerns in its opinion. The judges in 2024 wrote that the judicial branch lacks the power to grant or enforce the federal policy changes the plaintiffs requested.

There’s no law requiring any of what Trump killed, and what he killed were Executive Orders, which any president can kill. Biden rescinded 70-80 of Trump’s EOs. If the yutes are so concerned they should get all their fellow yutes to go carbon neutral.

“Similar to the injunction requested in Juliana, the injunction Plaintiffs seek would require extensive judicial supervision of executive branch actions related to energy policy,” the trio of appellate judges wrote. “Indeed, Plaintiffs explicitly seek to undo everything from staffing reductions, to the revocation of research grants, to anticipated rule changes, to the type of language the current administration has used on government websites. To assign such policy-laden choices to one district court would invert the ‘common understanding what activities are appropriate to legislatures, to executives, and to courts.’”

That’s not even counting that the Supreme Court ruling on Trump v. CASA, Inc, which, while it was meant for district judges, would also apply to circuit courts making nationwide rulings. If they had ruled for the kiddies it would only have applied in the 9th Circuit Court’s jurisdiction.

Julia Olson, co-director of Our Children’s Trust, the Oregon-based nonprofit that represented the plaintiffs in the litigation, maintains that the executive orders are unconstitutional and expressed frustration with the court’s decision not to examine that component of the litigation.

She can maintain that all she wants, but, her little astroturfed lawsuit shamefully using easily pliable children lost, because there is nothing in the Constitution stopping those EOs, nor in federal law.

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