Another Junk Lawsuit

Hey folks,

The non-existent "Global Warming" threat raises it imaginary head again. This time in the form of another junk lawsuit. It seems that according to Reuters

"California sued six of the world's largest automakers over global warming on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.


The lawsuit is the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by their vehicles' emissions, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer said."

OK, I would love to be in the courtroom for this one folks. First, the plaintiff has to PROVE damage. This would mean that they have to PROVE "Global Warming" is real. Then they have to PROVE that the defendant is the cause of it.

Of course the manufacturers are going to fight this. Why would they not? We are talking about a lot of money.

"Lockyer told Reuters he would seek "tens or hundreds of millions of dollars" from the automakers in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California."

Now according to this article,

The complaint, which an auto industry trade group called a "nuisance" suit, names General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - news), Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F - news), Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T), the U.S. arm of Germany's DaimlerChrysler AG (DCXGn.DE) and the North American units of Japan's Honda Motor Co. (7267.T) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (7201.T).

The response by some charged?

"Ford deferred comment to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which said the lawsuit was similar to one a New York court dismissed that is now on appeal.

"Automakers will need time to review this legal complaint, however, a similar nuisance suit that was brought by attorneys- general against utilities was dismissed by a federal court in New York," the industry group said in a statement."

They are right. Like I said, first they have to PROVE that "Global Warming" exists. This is something that some of the best scientists in the world cannot even do. As I point out before, there are as many scientists that will speak out AGAINST so called "Global Warming" as there is those for it. Just to name a couple of examples;

From Arguments Against Global Warming

"According to The Leipzig Declaration, "There does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide. In fact, many climate specialists now agree that actual observations from weather satellites show no global warming whatsoever--in direct contradiction to computer model results." It adds, "based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions. For this reason, we consider the drastic emission control policies likely to be endorsed by the Kyoto conference--lacking credible support from the underlying science--to be ill-advised and premature". This would mean that there is a possibility that global warming could happen, but right now there is no real evidence already happening."

From The Global Warming Information Center

"On the matter of Earth's recent climate history, it is implausible that despite variance in solar irradiance Earth has had a stable temperature for the last 1,000-2,000 years. History instructs us this is not so, literature tells us this is not so, and a large spectrum of paleotemperature reconstructions tell us this is not so. USA Today and the hokey "Hockey Stick" representations are obviously wrong, regardless of how politically correct their concept of human culpability might be.

Regarding whether Earth has really warmed to some extent, regardless of our ability to accurately determine it? Yep, we have no problem with that. We have seen nothing compelling regarding Earth's current suspected temperature trend being anything extraordinary nor alarming but we have no reason to believe Earth's mean temperature is not changing, or that it does not do so continuously -- frankly, temperature stasis is a myth.

Do we face a planetary emergency precipitated by carbon dioxide emissions? No, there is zero evidence that such a scenario might be true."

Not to mention the new reports that are showing that the ocean waters are actually on a COOLING trend. The fact that air temperatures actually DROPPED a degree over the last ten years. To the fact that there is NO absolute proof the it exists at all. Just theories.

Now people like me and Betty can debate this all day long, {Yes Betty, I haven’t forgotten. I just freed up some time to continue that debate} but we are talking about a court of law here. We are talking about having to PROVE with evidence something that is not provable. This case should be promptly thrown out as well.

So why now? It’s election time folks. This is right up the LWL ally. It’s our fault we are destroying the world. It’s "Big Business" fault that the poor suffer. It’s Bush’s fault. They will stick it to "the man" on your behalf. They know what is best for you. They are here for you. Blah, blah, blah.

The only problem is, THERE IS NO "Global Warming" threat. Just a waste of court time.
Peter