Don't like the weather? Sue!
Just when you thought lawsuits couldn't get any more ridiculous, there is a new campaign afoot to sue the United States for natural disasters caused by global warming.
Of course, as Victor Davis Hanson likes to point out, thousands of elderly Frenchmen died in the cities because their families were too busy vacationing on the Riviera, and nobody thought to buy air conditioning. Arizona gets a lot hotter than France, and there was no crisis there.
But here's where the ridiculous gets more disturbing:
So now government agencies are adding to the validity of such claims. Someone, in the fashion of Bill Buckley, must "stand athwart history, and yell 'Stop!'"
A study of a 2003 heatwave in Europe may give Pacific islanders and environmentalists new ammunition for legal cases blaming the United States for global warming, advocates said on Thursday...
The British-based authors said human activity, especially emissions of heat-trapping gases from fossil fuels, had at least doubled the risks of heatwaves like last year's in which more than 20,000 people died.
Of course, as Victor Davis Hanson likes to point out, thousands of elderly Frenchmen died in the cities because their families were too busy vacationing on the Riviera, and nobody thought to buy air conditioning. Arizona gets a lot hotter than France, and there was no crisis there.
But here's where the ridiculous gets more disturbing:
Among other cases, eight U.S. states and New York City filed suit against five U.S. power companies in July, accusing them of stoking climate change. The firms have asked for the case to be dismissed, arguing that climate change is a matter for the president and Congress.
So now government agencies are adding to the validity of such claims. Someone, in the fashion of Bill Buckley, must "stand athwart history, and yell 'Stop!'"
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