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July 6, 2007
Global Warming, the Catastrophic Joke
Just because anthropogenic global warming is a hoax doesn't mean we aren't headed for catastrophe. I'm not referring to the nightmare scenario of an unhinged fanatic like Al Gore attaining a position allowing him to derail the economy for the sake of the Earth Mother. Our economic ruin will more easily come from a swarm of greedy parasites with law degrees.
The Dallas law firm Thompson & Knight has started a dedicated climate-change practice with 26 shysters. The emphasis will be on profiting from the mountains of bureaucratic red tape that economically suicidal carbon-capping legislation will generate:
But they also expect to represent plaintiffs who've been harmed by global warming and pollution.
It would be impossible to overstate the economic implications. If the same kangaroo courts that let John Edwards get rich by shamelessly stealing from doctors with a circus act whereby he pretended to channel unborn children, the same courts that drove Dow Corning into bankruptcy for making breast implants that were never proven to harm anyone, the courts that gleefully participated in the theft of billions of dollars from the tobacco industry — if these absurd parodies of justice that we call our courts, ruled over by moonbat ideologues for the enrichment of their ambulance-chasing vampire colleagues, if these courts take upon themselves the right to steal at will from anyone deemed to have caused pollution or the probably completely nonexistent phenomenon of anthropogenic global warming, then America is over.
They will drive into bankruptcy every productive business in the country. Lawyers will be obscenely rich for awhile, until the money runs out and they join the rest of us, foraging in trash heaps and forests for food.
Something very similar happened in Russia when the communists took over, reminding us once again that the objectives of communists and environmentalists are essentially the same.
Stephen Susman of Susman Godfrey in Houston has been a pioneer of litigation whereby global warming is used as a pretext to loot industry. He's been colluding with some Eskimos that may sue power companies for supposedly causing global warming. Susman's rhetoric is totally over the top, reminiscent of the Goracle himself:
Melting glaciers isn't going to get that much going, but wait until the first big ski area closes because it has no snow. Or wait until portions of lower Manhattan and San Francisco are under water.
Unfortunately, Susman is unlikely to wait that long himself before he starts bleeding our economy to death in the name of Al Gore's bogus ideology. He has been laying the groundwork for "broad greenhouse-effect litigation against energy companies."
You think your power bill is high now? It's likely to triple. Unless a locust swarm of Steve Susmans succeeds in putting power companies out of business altogether.
Then we can all hold hands and be at one with the Earth, free at last from civilization.
Hat tip: Houston's Clear Thinkers, on a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 6, 2007 5:58 PM
Comments
About that no snow at ski areas comment - Ski areas, even major ones, have needed to close due to lack of snow since skiing began, here and there. Before snowmaking, Breckenridge had a year in the 70's where they gave refunds to season ticket holders because they were only open a few weeks and just a year or two ago, Washington State ski areas experienced the same thing. Not only was Susman wrong due to the face that there already was no resulting outrage, he didn't even check with recent history to see if it had already happened or not.
Posted by: MB at July 6, 2007 9:40 PM
And now even the liberals at the Guardian are getting fed up with the Goreacle and the antics of his celebrity minions
Posted by: The Panday at July 7, 2007 3:16 AM
Slightly OT. Last night channel surfing I saw 20 milliseconds (all I could stand) of Donny Deutsch interviewing Gore in a segment entitled "The Passion (yes, really) of Al Gore." It was nauseating. Deutsch was fawning over Gore like they were going to get a room after the show.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 7, 2007 9:42 AM
"Not only was Susman wrong due to the face that there already was no resulting outrage, he didn't even check with recent history to see if it had already happened or not."
Since when have The Master Race (trial lawyers) been concerned with dumb things like truth and facts?
This whole thing fits right into the Marxist "Liberals" plan for world economics: incrementally shift the world's wealth from the "vermin" to the...(awesome music)...Enlightened Ones.
Posted by: Toa at July 7, 2007 11:09 AM
Would you guys keep it down? I'm trying to watch Live Earth!
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at July 7, 2007 12:14 PM
My problem with the global warming hype is the illogical doom and gloom, such as those (Al Gore, Dr. Hansen, and others) who cry that we are "10 years from a tipping point."
First, is that 10 years from 2007 or 10 years from 2004/2005 when some started hyping it?
If we are 10 years away from a tipping point, then radical changes are needed today, such as shutting down power plants and banning vehicles.
Think about it...if carbon dioxide spewing industrialization over the past 150 years has brought us to a tipping point that is a mere 10 years (or less)--which is a very short time on the geological scale--then raising the average fleet mpg 10, 30, 50%, or switching to hybrid cars, or putting solar panels on our 10,000 sq ft mansions, or holding rock concerts will do nothing to stop us from reaching this tipping point.
Posted by: dpt at July 7, 2007 12:35 PM
