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SF/Oakland is Suing Oil Companies Because of Global Warming... oops, Climate Change
This is how you can tell someone is repeating talking points like a parrot and not actually thinking about what they are spoon fed.
Global warming causes climate change. The Earth warms up, the climate changes. Get it? There is no conspiracy, there is no deception. Both terms are still used today, and both are valid.
This is how you can tell someone is repeating talking points like a parrot and not actually thinking about what they are spoon fed.
Global warming causes climate change. The Earth warms up, the climate changes. Get it? There is no conspiracy, there is no deception. Both terms are still used today, and both are valid.
By bringing these claims in the county courts in San Francisco and Alameda, the cities’ attorneys are setting them on a legal course where the justices of the California Supreme Court—a reliably liberal court—would ultimately decide the financial liability of the oil companies.
One immediate step the oil companies could take is to remove these lawsuits to federal court. They could invoke a federal district court’s “diversity jurisdiction” under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 because the plaintiffs are from different states or nations than all of the defendants and the amount being sued for exceeds $75,000.
Such a move would take any appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit where critics would fear the chances of a leftwing outcome, but would also preserve the option that the final word on this case would ultimately come from the U.S. Supreme Court instead of the California Supreme Court.
They are referring to the effects of global warming as a public nuisance.
They are requesting that the five oil companies pay for a sea wall, raise low lying buildings and property, and pay for other infrastructure.
Pull their gas.... just cut off all gas sales... for three days at first.
How many of them bought gas from these places?
Unbelievable... except that it's California. That makes it believable.
Cali is going to have to be reigned in, put troops there and throw their legislature and government officials in jail might become necessary.
If you completely buy the Global Warming religion, the oil companies did not cause any of the damage, they just provided the oil and gas, the planes, cars, buses, trains, power stations burned that fuel so everyone that has used a car, plane, electricity are all culpable....I'm looking at you Algore.
This is how you can tell someone is repeating talking points like a parrot and not actually thinking about what they are spoon fed.
Global warming causes climate change. The Earth warms up, the climate changes. Get it? There is no conspiracy, there is no deception. Both terms are still used today, and both are valid.
Don't blame me because people didn't buy the whole global warming theory...
Don't blame me because people didn't buy the whole global warming theory...
There's nothing to "buy". There is simply the data and the strong correlation between human activity and warming. You are welcome to ignore that data, of course - but it doesn't just go away because you don't "buy" it. That's not how science works.
I hope that oil companies can be found liable for their destruction of the planet and that huge damages will be awarded.
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