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Katrina victims move ahead with their global warming suit against energy companies
The Houston Chronicle ^ | October 19, 2009 | Eric Berger

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 ...


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we are so far over the edge it's not even funny.
1 posted on 10/20/2009 12:21:00 PM PDT by kingattax
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2 posted on 10/20/2009 12:22:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Shouldn’t these losers be suing Gaia?


3 posted on 10/20/2009 12:23:04 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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They should sue their own mothers for being born in the first place.


4 posted on 10/20/2009 12:23:05 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
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A judge is actually entertaining this BS? Geeez...


5 posted on 10/20/2009 12:23:05 PM PDT by NMEwithin
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wtf


6 posted on 10/20/2009 12:23:15 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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I keep looking for that satire tag...


7 posted on 10/20/2009 12:23:34 PM PDT by green pastures
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dumbazzes.....


8 posted on 10/20/2009 12:24:48 PM PDT by tatsinfla
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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?


9 posted on 10/20/2009 12:25:18 PM PDT by heartwood
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Total bullcrap. But these are the same types who thought 0bama would pay all their bills for them.


10 posted on 10/20/2009 12:25:47 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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I liked the last line from the story:
Thanks for Jim Thompson for the tip on this story.

LOL!

11 posted on 10/20/2009 12:26:20 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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Just another way for leftists to destroy legitimate businesses and take their money and give it to lazy slobs who vote democrat.


12 posted on 10/20/2009 12:26:24 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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So who are the judges on the Fifth?


13 posted on 10/20/2009 12:27:06 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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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


14 posted on 10/20/2009 12:27:13 PM PDT by big black dog
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The Houston Chronicle is a well-known satirical publication, right?

Well, yes... but mostly unintentionally...
15 posted on 10/20/2009 12:27:19 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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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.


16 posted on 10/20/2009 12:27:19 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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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).


17 posted on 10/20/2009 12:27:45 PM PDT by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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Thanx ... insane ... but Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

18 posted on 10/20/2009 12:28:51 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison!)
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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.


19 posted on 10/20/2009 12:29:03 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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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...


20 posted on 10/20/2009 12:31:32 PM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal NFL doesn't think Rush is good enough for them? They feel the same about us-BOYCOTT)
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