Posted on 10/20/2009 12:20:59 PM PDT by kingattax
Mississippi Gulf Coast property owners who suffered property damage during Hurricane Katrina have won an appeal in their efforts to sue energy, fossil fuel and chemical companies for their greenhouse gas contributions to global warming.
From the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's ruling:
The plaintiffs allege that defendants' operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming, viz., the increase in global surface air and water temperatures, that in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs' private property, as well as public property useful to them.
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The plaintiffs have pleaded sufficient facts to demonstrate standing for their public and private nuisance, trespass, and negligence claims
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...
Shouldn’t these losers be suing Gaia?
They should sue their own mothers for being born in the first place.
A judge is actually entertaining this BS? Geeez...
wtf
I keep looking for that satire tag...
dumbazzes.....
Satire? Please please tell me this is satire. Please tell me a court of appeals would not burden our country with this unproveable unassignable nonsense.
The Houston Chronicle is a well-known satirical publication, right?
Total bullcrap. But these are the same types who thought 0bama would pay all their bills for them.
Thanks for Jim Thompson for the tip on this story.
LOL!
Just another way for leftists to destroy legitimate businesses and take their money and give it to lazy slobs who vote democrat.
So who are the judges on the Fifth?
But the energy companies are actually helping them out, aren’t they?
Does Global Warming Mean Fewer Hurricanes?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/23/tech/main3742196.shtml
Can I get in on this? Global warming caused my air conditioning bills to go up and increased the amount of lawn watering I had to do and several other terrible things I haven’t thought of yet.
Send my check direct deposit, Judge.
This ought to be fun. Just think the field day anti-global warming scientists will have picking apart the science of the global a-warmists. Also, I would think the plaintiffs would have to show they had no interest in the use of fossil fuels to be valid complaintants, IMO (but then, I’m not a lawyer).
All I can figure is that he was so weakened by a prolonged laughing fit that he didn’t have the strength left to pull the flush lever.
How cold does it have to get before these folks “get” that it’s NOT getting warmer. Hurricanes ARE NOT worse. They’re ONLY worse in Gore’s fictional hollywood movie...
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