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April 10, 2009
Global Warming Looters' Bonanza
Posted by Dave Blount at April 10, 2009 10:04 AM
Every cloud has a silver lining for someone. If a terrible plague were to wipe out the human race, rats and cockroaches would be well situated to take over the planet. Similarly, trial lawyers stand to make a fortune on the global warming insanity neo-Marxists are using to finish off the economy. As always, a large portion of the loot will be kicked back to the Democrat Party, to ensure that the system remains dysfunctionally corrupt.
Self-proclaimed victims of global warming or those who "expect to suffer" from it — from beachfront property owners to asthmatics — for the first time would be able to sue the federal government or private businesses over greenhouse gas emissions under a little-noticed provision slipped into the House climate bill. …
Under the House bill, if a judge rules against the government, new rules would have to be drafted to alleviate the problems associated with climate change. If a judge rules against a company, the company would have to purchase additional "carbon emission allowances" through a cap-and-trade program that is to be created by Congress.
The measure sets grounds for anyone "who has suffered, or reasonably expects to suffer, a harm attributable, in whole or in part," to government inaction to file a "citizen suit." The term "harm" is broadly defined as "any effect of air pollution (including climate change), currently occurring or at risk of occurring."
"Victims" will be entitled to collect up to $1.5 million apiece. Since global warming is a fantasy, anything can be blamed on it. Too bad for lawyers they didn't think of looting the public treasury over the misdeeds of demons during the Middle Ages.
The "green jobs" we've been promised are likely to consist of mowing the expansive lawns of trial lawyers, who as parasites are among the few that actually benefit from moonbattery.
On a tip from The MaryHunter.
