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The courts are deciding who's to blame for climate change
The Guardian ^ | April 16, 2018 | by Dana Nuccitelli

Posted on 04/16/2018 9:38:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Oil companies? The government? The public? All of the above share the blame.

There are numerous ongoing legal challenges in an effort to determine who’s responsible for climate change. Exxon is under investigation by state attorneys general, cities are suing oil companies over sea level rise costs, and Our Children’s Trust is suing the federal government for failing to protect their generation from climate change. At the heart of these legal challenges lies the question – who bears culpability for climate change and liability for its costs and consequences?

The case against the fossil fuel industry largely relies on proving that these companies deceived the American public about the threats posed by consuming their products.

But of course, the American government has failed to implement climate policies over the past two decades.

There’s plenty of blame to go around for the mounting climate costs, but so far, taxpayers are footing the whole bill. There may eventually be a court case in which the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry before it, is held responsible for its role in deceiving the American public about the dangers of carbon pollution. And American voters will eventually punish the Republican Party for its decades of climate denial and policy obstruction. Accountability is coming.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; hoax; lawyers; socialism
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1 posted on 04/16/2018 9:38:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Clearly, fossil fuels are to blame.

Damn dinosaurs!


2 posted on 04/16/2018 9:41:08 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shouldn’t they rather decide who is lying?


3 posted on 04/16/2018 9:41:16 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
But of course, the American government has failed to implement climate policies over the past two decades.

Excuse me? It has all been pointless, but the government, at every level, has been trying to satisfy these people. But it's impossible. They always want more concessions, and they have the nerve to say "you haven't done anything".

4 posted on 04/16/2018 9:42:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” the American government has failed to implement climate policies over the past two decades”

That’s because there isn’t any.


5 posted on 04/16/2018 9:44:04 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about China and India? Are there coal plants in Africa? Maybe this is more about finding out who has the deepest pockets and least political clout?


6 posted on 04/16/2018 9:44:11 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah. Who’s to blame for an imaginary deed. Incredibly Marxist.


7 posted on 04/16/2018 9:45:51 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liberals want the courts to impose higher taxes and crushing regulations for them.

How droll.

Punishing the Republican Party for rebuffing the climate change scam is simply the icing on the cake.


8 posted on 04/16/2018 9:46:19 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look to the authors pushing the lie.


9 posted on 04/16/2018 9:49:11 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oil companies? The government? The public? All of the above share the blame.

How about "None of the above"??

10 posted on 04/16/2018 9:56:18 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: pfflier

Owl Gore pulled gorebull warming out of his a$$, let him pay for it!


11 posted on 04/16/2018 10:01:25 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When that question is judicially settled and the proper party to sue for damages is determined then we can move on to the problem of the outbreak of fairies, elves and unicorns that is plaguing our planet and the other problem of uncontrolled proliferation of zombies


12 posted on 04/16/2018 10:02:05 AM PDT by arthurus (VG^)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here's the answer.


13 posted on 04/16/2018 10:02:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sun?

Or maybe the whole Global Warming hoax is just that....

a scheme to fleece the United States and bring down the country so a bunch of third world socialists can feel good about themselves.


14 posted on 04/16/2018 10:04:18 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The un-scientific scientists - like Bill Nye; and Marx was a parasite like those he was railing about.


15 posted on 04/16/2018 10:12:51 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why yes Virginia, the loony bin has been breached.


16 posted on 04/16/2018 10:12:55 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Actually, it’s a way for the globalist oligarch families to punish successful nations and keep any one country from becoming too powerful. That way they can keep their one world tyranny going forever.


17 posted on 04/16/2018 10:13:18 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hold on! Time out! Back up!

The libs are rearranging the Titanic's deck chairs and have changed the name again.

It's not "climate change" or "global warming" anymore.

Now we are experiencing... Climate Restoration.

18 posted on 04/16/2018 10:26:51 AM PDT by skimbell
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Note to the Manchester Guardian: wish in one hand and crap in the other. See which one fills up first.


19 posted on 04/16/2018 10:55:40 AM PDT by FLT-bird (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“There may eventually be a court case in which the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry before it, is held responsible for its role in deceiving the American public about the dangers of carbon pollution.”

The oil companies provide the fuel, but ordinary people are the ones converting it to CO2.

The average American probably has heard the claims of the Goresters 10,000 times or more.

The claims are ignored because they are inconsistent the Obama’s globetrotting, rampant immigration, lack of Democratic action, etc.


20 posted on 04/16/2018 10:56:33 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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