If Global warming turns out to be a hoax 20 yrs from now, will big business want compensation for costs?

Question

before there are anymore disparaging comments about the question it was only an IF not a concrete yea or nay

Answer 1

I can think of at least one industry that is going to make out very nicely as the polar ice melts: Big Oil and mining companies, which are already drooling at the prospect of being able to drill in Greenland and other previously inaccessible places. The profits will more than offset the loss.
You think I'm kidding? Read the two articles below:

Answer 2

That’s actually a very good question. Well, let's for a second assume that it does turn out to be a hoax. It’s a fact that governments in most developed countries have forced many companies (mostly industrial) to maintain certain safety and health codes to minimize the effect that their operations have on the environment.

I personally don’t know whether or not any company can have a legal case of claiming that the government owes them at that point. And even if it is legally possible for companies to ask the government and maybe even environmentalist organizations (who were mainly responsible for setting the restrictions in the first place) for any sort of compensation, I doubt companies would actually ask for that compensation, because there are so many companies who would want in on the compensation packages, that when you take a certain figure and divide it among the companies, you are left with absolutely nothing. The legal fees that you have been charged at that point would probably outweigh whatever compensation your company would receive. Governments would have to set aside trillions and trillions of dollars to actually make any resulting compensation that you get worth the hassle. And of course, no government is willing to spend that much of its budget (assuming that the government in question even HAS trillions and trillions of dollars) just to satisfy the demands of greedy industrial giants.

It’ll probably just blow over and those companies would move on.

However, I personally feel that global warming isn’t a hoax, it’s quite real, and it’s effects are beginning to be felt around the world (hurricane Katrina, floods in Indonesia, etc…) Watch Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” for more on that, he offers some very convincing (not to mention alarming) statistics about the situation that the world is in.

Answer 3

Oh come on now, worthless politicians don't care what havoc they wreak in pursuit of a crackpot theory. You won't even get a "mistakes were made" quote. In fact more junk science will be served up, as we all know the secret to eternal life is to be born as a government program.

And "evil white men drive big cars and cause global warming" is a hoax and WILL be a hoax in 20 years.

Answer 4

What are the current costs to which you refer? I don't believe they are paying for 'Global Warming', so there is no need for compensation.

If it turns out to be a hoax, I bet the penguins will be mad about all the ice caps melting.

Answer 5

Big business probably caused it in the first place, it is the rest of us mortals who need compensation. How is any amount of money going to help if there are no bees to pollinate no sun to shine etc?

Answer 6

how do you figure it's a joke? look around. ave. temps are steadily on the rise. we barely got under freezing this year. i wore shorts all year long. usually we get some ice or snow. not to mention the loss of rain year on year. i think it'll get worse as time goes on. i also think that we as humans contibute alot to it. after all, who's paving roads, knocking down trees, building factories, taking away emission tests for cars....i can on and on. what do we do to SAVE ANYTHING?

Answer 7

Al Gore will be sued too.