How Dare You!

Greta’s little comrades weren’t so successful this time:

A federal appeals court has thrown out a high-profile case brought by 21 kids and young adults in a bid to block the federal government from encouraging the use of fossil fuels.

“Juliana vs. the United States,” filed in 2015, alleges that the U.S. government knew for decades that burning fossil fuels would lead to damaging climate change but failed to do enough to stop it. Two judges out of a three-judge panel ruled that the issues raised in the case are best left to Congress.

“There is much to recommend the adoption of a comprehensive scheme to decrease fossil fuel emissions and combat climate change, both as a policy matter in general and a matter of national survival in particular,” Judge Andrew D. Hurwitz wrote in the court opinion. “But it is beyond the power of an Article III court to order, design, supervise, or implement the plaintiffs’ requested remedial plan. As the opinions of their experts make plain, any effective plan would necessarily require a host of complex policy decisions entrusted, for better or worse, to the wisdom and discretion of the executive and legislative branches.”

9 Replies to “How Dare You!”

  1. From the link:

    “Gerrard added: “Many U.S. judges have vigorously enforced the environmental laws written by Congress but won’t go beyond that. They want to leave the key decisions to the ballot box. So for now, all three branches of the federal government are sitting on their hands as the planet burns.””

    What part of the United States being a constitutional republic does this lawyer not understand. The people ultimately decide, not the politicians.

    “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”

    1. As the planet burns.
      Lawyer as LOON….Goes to prove that “education” does not always make for smart and informed people. It just as often turns them into insufferable ASSHOLES.

  2. They have totally drunk the green kool-aid, linking fossil fuel use to climate change, but are just saying it’s not in their job description. In reality, more ammunition for the greentards.

  3. “Two judges out of a three-judge panel ruled that the issues raised in the case are best left to Congress.”

    We’re all hooped then. I guess it makes no difference to U.S. judges that Michael Mann was defeated last November in a B.C. courtroom.
    Generally in these kinds of cases against the U.S. government or individuals who are elected representatives of the U.S. government the
    case is dismissed for lack of standing, and the proof of “standing” lies with the plaintiff. This case should have been dismissed outright.
    Instead it has been set aside, allowing it to breath until it gets just the right miscreants to breathe life into it and make it law.

  4. ‘yall think at least in Ontario the problem began about Twenty Years ago when Trwana voted in the Liberal Party of canada Branch Government of Ottawa Liberal’s with McGuinty one of the Sons of a Ottawa well known woman; another has been an over-the-top Liberal M.P.
    Anyway instead of providing Ontario Students with an Education which provides understanding which will be of assistance when the Ontario Students join the Adult World; the money was spent on teaching youngest of the Kids starting in primary grades on how masturbation and oral sex will be broading understanding of living after(?) primary school. Unfortunately at some point the McGuinty brother who was Premier had to scurry out of the Province — U.S.A. Princeton University — and left Ontario Citizens with ‘Turbines in all of the Conservative represented Ridings.
    This was and is especially evident in those which followed the usual Liberal approach, If You do not Want Wind Turbines Then have a Meeting to establish the preference and there will not be any Turbines in Your Area.
    Well of course when the Laurentien Elite learned there would not be as many Turbines for them to get the First chance at the $ .875/ kilowatt buy in the promisees to Ontario Citizens disaappeared as alway.
    Why ? because Ontario as the Largest Population Province has always been a branch operation of the Federal Liberals and/or the the Major Players of Ontario Liberal Ottawa Liberals. After McGuilty sccoted Ontario Citizens were saddled with Kathleen Wynne voted in by the Ottawa, Ontario controlled Liberal Party insiders.
    (If only the Central Canada — read Trawna — Media wa not controlled by the Ottawa Liberal party/Privy Council decades long collusion; Then possibly an aggressive [read not lazy] Journalist would be able tp follow the money as to exactly which Political Party is tied to the $ .875 per Kilowatt & the second offering of $ .537 per killowhat.}
    I mean when Ontario’s excess Electricity is being sold to the New York State for less than $ .03 during non-peak times at night when the Wind Turbines generate more Electricity; what’s the problem besides greed of the Insiders. By the Way; my understanding the excess Electricity problem at night was partly reduced by shutting down the Niagara Falls Hydro generation. Y’all know the least costly and most Environmental Friendly manner of all.
    Let me Close by expressing those endearing words from a Foreign Teenager primed for Prime Time Central Canada T. V. viewing;______ “How Dare You”

  5. All those who dislike fossil fuels have the personal option of trying to survive without them. I would guess they would be dead in a week.

    1. Those people are called … the homeless of California. They live quite comfortably without ANY fossil fuels whatsoever. Behold the MODEL of your UN IPCC futures! Living “lightly” on the planet.

      However, this State’s gonna get a bit MORE crowded when the entire population of Canada move to the streets of Santa Monica.

      1. I call dibs for an under the bleacher spot at the new ballpark at Howard Terminal/Jack London Square.

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