Like tobacco companies that settled law suites in dozens of states limiting liability ,shouldn't corporations be actively doing the same thing now . .
They do not have to since laws are being written to protect corporations from such liability .
Why have such laws unless you are guilty in the first place .
April 2, 2007
In a huge victory in the fight against global warming the Supreme Court today issued a ruling in the case of Massachusetts v. EPA decisively rejecting the Bush administration's inaction on global warming , In a 5-4 vote .
Bush has attempted to lower standards and currently lobbyists are attempting to get limits on liability for polluters established .
This will make settlements payable to states like the Tobacco lawsuits denying individuals the right to sue .
Much is left to be done before we are allowed to come to the conclusion that we do have an effect on our environment and lately it has been cause for alarm among scientists .
2007-06-18 06:50:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
We should probably sue the ignorant and short sighted environmentalists who railed against nuclear power throughout the 70's. They are the ones who are largely to blame for our lack of clean nuclear power.
2007-06-18 06:58:21 · answer #1 · answered by Nickoo 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"The ice age existed. Everyone agrees on that. The ice age ended. Nobody has asked how it ended... if just one day POOF everything was warm? Or, did a gradual warming cause the ice age to end? Humans could not have caused the end of the ice age." But we know what did, Keith P goes over what happened the way a skeptic would (an actual skeptic, not a claimed skeptic that just denies the fact of global warming). If you didn't understand that the basic reason is that we know when all the natural cycles occur and it just so happens that we aren't in a warming cycle (and there hasn't been any correlation with solar activity for a while either) "What real evidence is there that humans are causing global warming? Freon is heavier than air, so it sinks and never reaches the ozone." Aside from there only be a tangential relation between the hole in the ozone layer and global warming the CFCs do very much reach the stratosphere since the stratosphere is within the heterosphere where the atmospheric gases are well mixed by atmospheric turbulence (and it's enough to get things far heavier than CFCs up to the turbopause). But think what you're saying, CFCs are heavier then air, so is carbon dioxide so you'd expect CO2 to sink and form a layer of CO2 on the surface upon which is the layer of molecular oxygen and then the layer of nitrogen and then the layer of atomic oxygen. That's just not how the atmosphere is below 100 km.
2016-05-18 22:03:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's funny that global warming deniers will try to blame environmentalists because they prevented nuclear power from becoming more widespread. You're denying that global warming exists, or that it's caused by humans, and you're trying to skirt the blame if you're wrong?! Pathetic.
Unlike with tobacco, there's no one industry that would be to blame for global warming. All industries and all individuals (unless you're off living in a cave somewhere) are responsible for some degree of carbon dioxide emissions, and thus some degree of global warming. Governments that don't take action (like yes, the Bush Admin) are the ones to blame because they're responsible for regulation legislation. The EPA is a good example.
I don't see anyone getting pinned for legal liability for global warming in the future.
2007-06-18 10:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's focus first on the first question.
Is global warming real?
Normally you have to prove a problem actually exists, and to what extent it has caused damage, before you begin to find and punish those who are guilty.
To this point, there is no scientific data that can conclusively tell a) if global warming is man made, and b) if it is man made, how much of the warming is attributable to man?
2007-06-18 07:02:40 · answer #4 · answered by Sleeck 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
simple question, with with a simple answer .the big corporations,all of them togather.they don;t care about pollution, they only care how much they can make. at the expense of polluting the air that we all breath.the government does;nt help much to stop the problem either.and then there;s the people in general.we all need to look for other ways to help stop the pollution problem.both water and air. but the main problem is the big corporations themselfs.
2007-06-18 07:25:52 · answer #5 · answered by bigjoe8127 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global warming, first of all, is real. Althgouh, you assume that if global warming is real, then it was caused by people. If it is caused by people, then those same people are morally culpable for the damaging effects. Otherwise, I think you should just sue the sun.
2007-06-18 14:15:11 · answer #6 · answered by jfeucht82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF global warming is real...!
It is real. The entire scientific community agrees. The only ones who don't think it exists are the oil companies who stand to lose money (and the tiny minority who've fallen for their propaganda).
Stop worrying about who to blame - we all are and it's our job to stop climate chaos progressing any further.
2007-06-18 06:56:50 · answer #7 · answered by Cardinal Fang 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
u2zep73 may be the only republican who has anything good to say about France.
I find that very amusing.
As for your question: modern industrial civilization is to blame. There's no one to sue. We all did it together.
2007-06-18 06:55:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the Left had it their way they would blame first Bush then Christians and behind them the republicans, then to bring up the rear... the jews.
2007-06-18 06:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dems.
They forced us to burn coal and spew who knows how many millions of tons of CO2 into the air.
They wouldn't let us build nuclear plants ... like France and China do.
2007-06-18 06:53:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋