Today an AP article illustrates the unending ability of people to litigate... anything.
A federal judge here said environmental groups and four U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the overseas projects they financially back contribute to global warming.
The decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White is the first to say that groups alleging global warming have a right to sue.
In response to this ruling, a few organizations and cities are suing federal agencies that they believe cause global warming abroad.
Those government agencies provide loans and insure billions of dollars of U.S. investors' money for development projects overseas. Many of the projects are power plants that emit greenhouses gases that the groups allege cause global warming.
That's right, sue those government agencies that are building power plants in third world countries! But how much can these agencies be responsible for?
The suit claims 8 percent of the world's greenhouse gases come from projects supported by the two agencies.
For those of you who are savvy with a calculator, that means that these government agencies are getting sued for global warming they cause, which means that they may be legally responsible for global temperatures increasing (8% times 1.1 degree temperature increase) .088 degrees in the past 140 years or so, which is assuming that they have been funding these projects for 140 years (which they haven't.)
This is a new low for litigation. A federal judge is allowing federal agencies to be sued for their 8% responsibility in a theoretical problem.
Wow.
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What a sad, sad joke. Yet Harvard law professors and democrats in Congress will still claim there 'is no such thing' as judicial activism.
This is clearly a travesty of constitutional interpretation. And it illustrates that I ma in the wrong field. I used to think working in the legislature was a way to implement positive change; I need to be clerking for a judge that's as crazy about restraint as this nut-job is about desecration.
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