Ah, yes, and when the mighty San Diego Chamber of Commerce delivers its verdict, the world will listen.
Meanwhile it turns out that there are
real lawsuits over global warming happening:
Kivalina sues 24 companies for contributing to global warming The lawyers concerned were also involved in the tobacco company lawsuits (one on the side of the companies), apparently.
As the article points out, the suit is not based only on the idea that the companies sued are causing harm to Kivalina - something the courts will probably, rightly, reject, it being impossible for a court to prove just how much each company contributes to the warming of the planet, and thus how responsible they are for the damage.
The suit also charges the companies with a conspiracy to lie about the effects of pollution - the court is being asked to decide on whether or not there have been
'bad faith efforts to prevent enactment of public measures that might have prevented Kivalina's destruction' (this month's Atlantic Monthly).
The allegation that
'the companies used front groups, fake citizen organizations, bogus scientific bodies and the use of "global warming skeptics" to deny the existence of the rising temperatures' might be something a court could get its teeth into.
