More of this “climate justice” rubbish, now “legitimized” by a publication in a leading science journal
From the Hockey Schtick:
The journal Nature suggests billions of people could be sued for legal breach of duty to care for the climate
This just in: the June 2011 edition of the journal Nature Climate Change entertains the wonderful notion that billions of people worldwide could be sued for “legal breach of their duty of care to the climate” by individually exceeding the worldwide average carbon dioxide footprint.
The apparently frustrated journal laments that “only if a case came to be judged on its merits [pity the thought], would the ‘science’ of climate change be called upon to help make the case: even then, there are difficulties.”
Definitely not Grandma, but how about the biggest hypocrite of all, Al Gore?
Story at the Hockey Schtick
h/t to reader “kwik”
Nature should start by suing themselves. Being they work in multiple big buildings, have personnel that fly all over the world, produce a magazine that is shipped all over the world made of the bleached dead bodies of trees; need I go on? Why does that saying keep coming to mind? “Do as I say, not as I do.” Only stupid people still listen to theses hypocrites!
The West is now a Mad House. Our scientists are a bunch of paranoid navel-gazers who are trying to get rich quick out of the old Chicken Little “the sky is falling” gambit. Of course, we do live in an Age of Hysteria, so maybe “the sky is falling” is the way to go. However, the calamity that confronts mankind in the short and near term is nuclear war and no one in a Western government will address the issues raised by its prevention. The West is now a Mad House.
Just another attack on the west by those who’s self hatred knows no bounds.
I would sue them back for abdicating their duty when they cut the space program that could have us a multi-planet species by now.
“But on second thought who or what would power their homes?”
Please abandon any doubts you may have as to whether these people are foolish enough to end up sitting cold and in the dark by their own hands. They most certainly are, and we’re going to see it happen somewhere before this is over with.
I will put my hand up – I vow I WILL keep my carbon footprint smaller than Al Gore’s
It sure looks like the depopulation of the world is one goal of the ‘warmists”. That is the only way to progressively decrease the number of people violating the “average” global carbon footprint standard.
It looks like a natural class action lawsuit scenario. The compassionate green lawyers against the greedy masses of earth abusing energy gluttons.
There are billions of sources of CO2 that should be eradicated … all you lot over there.
Sorry, I don’t usually resort to SARC but these eco-fascists really need to be called out.
jeez says @June 10, 2011 at 12:17 pm…
AARGH!! Now I can’t get the theme song from Green Acres out of my head!
Great show, though, especially Arnold the pig – which preceded California’s Arnold the pig by 45 years. : -)
Won’t affect us in Europe.
We have to book flights from the UK to France, then from France to the USA to avoid the taxes.
And the EU has already decided to stop short-distance flights within Europe (assuming that the European Union survives another few years….the bets are that it won’t)
The UK taxes the backside off its citizens (we pay an environmental levy on all fuel bills: Electricity, gas and fuel oil)
We pay an absolute fortune in road fuel taxes (diesel is £1.40 per litre at the pumps….the cost of the fuel itself is £0.58 per litre, the rest is fuel tax…even the purchase tax on the fuel (VAT) is taxed !
The Uk is going to have the lowest carbon footprint in the world soon….nobody will be doing anything except breathing, and that very slowly to save energy !
RE: Walt says:
June 10, 2011 at 3:42 pm
It sure looks like the depopulation of the world is one goal of the ‘warmists”.
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No, they only want to depopulate the world of certain people. What they fail to realize is, depopulation is already inevitable. It will be a rather non selective depopulation.
I know that Nature didn’t intend to publish this little missive just to give me a chance to comment about yet another inane absurdity, but that’s what they’ve done.
I somewhat agree with Nature, that is why I stopped buying the journal Nature, so one could say I took their advice to heart.
I promise that I will personally output as much CO2 in my lifetime as I possibly can.
They can come and arrest me if they like,
.. but someone has to take on the responsibility of feeding the plants and really caring for the planet.
pollution is bad.. yes.. but CO2 is good
Willis sed:
Some years ago Seattle was having a drought so they raised water rates so people would conserve. The result was an abundance of conservation so they had to raise the rates again to pay the bills. Damned if you do, damned when you do.
ew-3 says:
June 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm
“That young lady in the picture has a vary healthy carbon footprint.”
Uhhh.. those aren’t footprints, ew-3.
The nature article? If the suits start flowing we’ll be well into the next glaciation before anything gets settled.
No-one wants to see Grandma held responsible for climate change harms because she drove to church on Sunday when she could have walked, even if her weekly devotion puts her above an annual emission budget.”
“No-one” here is code for all of Britain’s arts-culture anti-science red-green elite. The only thing they hate more than climate deniers is christians. They hate them more than islamofascists hate them, and in fact pose a much more serious threat than islamofascists. There is no doubt that the political CAGW movement has entered a proto-fascistic stage. As the scientific case for AGW crumbles the arts-culture anti-science red-green elite, willfully oblivious to this, moves to further and further extremes in the statements they release which reveal their thinking, such as the 10-10 video. I have no doubt that there are dinner-party groups where an AGW military coup is being seriously considered. Who took Lenin’s bolscheviks seriously until very quickly it became far too late, or Hitler’s brown-shirts? If you are a known climate skeptic in the UK, make plans to leave the country at a moment’s notice.
It does all seem a bit shrill, and maybe just a little desperate. The lurch from science to religion is becoming ever clearer.
Frank K. says:
June 10, 2011 at 9:35 am
Folks – I’ve been saying this from day one. THIS IS THE END GAME FOR CLIMATE “SCIENCE” – the central control of our daily lives and the destruction of our freedoms. And it’s happening now. The only recourse we ordinary citizens have is to defeat these people politically before they have a chance to destroy our society.
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Not the only recourse. But less messy than and preferable to the final recourse. As the politicians like to say, all options are on the table…;
You folks need to look up who owns the Nature “journal” et al.
If you’re blathering about Japan, study some elementary geography. The entire country is perched on the Ring of Fire, and all the coasts are “beside major faults”. They must use coastal areas for reactors because the rest of the country is mountains, and because the sea is the only adequate heat sink.
That’s the trouble with trying to sound smart when you don’t know enough.
To Nature Climate Change,
You first.
DirkH says:
June 10, 2011 at 2:29 pm
(after all, they’re ivory tower inhabitants with no knowledge of the economy – all that they know is that they get money for wamist papers).
Megaphone from the window of the ivory tower:
CYCLE TO WORK PEASANTS, AND DON’T BREATHE TOO HARD WHILE YOU DO IT!
phlogiston says:
June 10, 2011 at 6:17 pm
I have no doubt that there are dinner-party groups where an AGW military coup is being seriously considered. Who took Lenin’s bolscheviks seriously until very quickly it became far too late, or Hitler’s brown-shirts? If you are a known climate skeptic in the UK, make plans to leave the country at a moment’s notice.
We will fight them over the peaches (and cream).
Sure glad I bought a bunch of those CCX carbon credits when they were on sale for 5 cents/ton before the CCX went belly up. I can breathe easy now.