Get Ready for International Global Warming Lawsuits
- Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:06pm by
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As government officials gather this week in Tianjin, China for negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), one group from the United Kingdom is urging developing countries to seek legal action against the world’s developed nations for their supposed role in global warming.
“A large part of the relevant legal literature suggests that the main polluting nations can be held responsible under international law for the harmful effects of their greenhouse-gas emissions,” says attorney Christoph Schwarte of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), a UK-based environmental law group.
“As a result affected countries may have a substantive right to demand the cessation of a certain amount of emissions. In selected cases they also have the procedural means to pursue an inter-state litigation in an international judicial forum such as the International Court of Justice in The Hague.”
In a new paper published in time for the UNFCCC meeting, FIELD outlines a proposed legal argument for a lawsuit on behalf of the world’s developing countries, offering some observations on the potential for a hypothetical case brought before an international court or tribunal.
“Today, a credible case for inter-state litigation on climate change can be made,” says Schwarte. “Developing country governments are understandably reluctant to challenge any of the big donor nations in an international court or tribunal. But this may change once the impacts of climate change become even more visible and an adequate agreement remains wanting,” he says.
While UN negotiations over climate change remedies have stalled, FIELD says that a threat of litigation “may help to create the political pressure and third-party guidance” environmental activists need to re-start international negotiations.
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Comments (98)
norcalart
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:51amIt does not look like all this going to come to a peaceful end.
Report Post »This may not come out well for the globalists………
IndianaUSA
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:40amMaybe big fat Al cheese burger, starting to look like Chet from Wierd Science, largest carbon foot print on the planet, I just bought a 9,000 square foot electricity eating monster in CA, my heating bills are the highest in Tenn., rub my second shokra Gore could be the US moderator in court.
Report Post »Ford Prefect
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:30amForget litigation the White House just shut down the Gulf Coast – well except to Mexico -
Report Post »Iamtheoracle
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:26amsue me please – I will buy whatever light bulbs I want, I will not wear recycled underwear made from plastic water bottles, I will not drive an electric car… I will eat meat . I’m turning on the furnace and all my appliances at the same time
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:26amThey love to nudge us in every area to get what they want. Cap and trade, go on my pretties…….. Meanwhile ,Al and so many others including our president will get richer and richer. They do nothing unless it benefits them. Poor little stupid American people have to be nudged along for their own good. Redistribution of wealth goes right back into their own pockets leaving us to foot the bill.
Report Post »AirFiero
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:24amWhen are we going to sue these lying bastards over the crap they’re trying to push? This is no less irresponsible than yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded theater. We should be organizing and filing lawsuits of our own.
Report Post »common everyday citizen
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 4:51amGreat point.
Report Post »Bernese2008
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:22amI guess if they cannot get the cap and tax bill threw here they are just going to go global with spreading our wealth around.. We are in big trouble people..God help us all.
Report Post »caitlynsdad
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:11amLitigation? When they could be blowing up kids? Lame, lame.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:07amIf they want to get serious about this, let’s demand all outstanding debts be paid back to the US for bailing out their A&&es for WWll.
Report Post »RealityCheck
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:35amWell, I‘m not sure but I do believe we waved alot of those debts off and someone correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t we waive some debt to keep someone from cutting down some rain forests? Unlike our giving nation you can bet no one is going to waive our debt that’s for sure.
Report Post »Race
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:01amTime to dump the UN, IMF, and World Court. (insert one-finger salute here)
Report Post »Bunk
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:59pmWe must, I repeat….we must stop all foreign aid. It’s the only thing that will get through to all these third world thugs. Cut them off and see how fast they start liking us again. Not to mention we can use the money in the good old USA.
Then we need to escort the United Nations off our sovereign soil and let them bite some other hand that feeds them. I’m sorry but the U.N. is a total waste of our time and resources.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:59pmI would love to see them actually prove that Global Warming is real in court.
Of course, they‘ll be in front of liberal socialist judges who’ll never bother even asking for proof. :(
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:08amI say bring them up in front of judge Napolitano! We‘ll just make up our own ’World Court’, why not? Everybody’s doing it. We’ll fund it by making it a reality show too! lol
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:56pmTime to kick the UN out of New York but this president will never do that. He agrees and blames our country.
Report Post »IndianaUSA
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:14amBarry and Eric are wondering where they can send the check.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 1:25amI believe one day soon the UN will move out of NY. Maybe after we make it so uncomfortable for them to stay (like pulling out of the global goverment). I really believe that they will move the headquarters to Jersulem. It is the only city in the world that the UN has declared it to be an “international city”. They will do in part to bring peace to the region but its intentions is to take over God’s city because it believes it is the god of the world. This is all in the bible.
Report Post »IndianaUSA
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:55pmI just farted – sue me!
Report Post »Punky
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:13amPretty sure we’re going to have to tax that… Sorry, but gas happens to be the air we breathe and we’re taxing that now. It‘s in everyone’s best interest.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:55pmLet me be the first one to leave a methane producing device on the new international court…that is the only thing my family is going to donate
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:55pmWhile UN negotiations over climate change remedies have stalled, FIELD says that a threat of litigation “may help to create the political pressure and third-party guidance” environmental activists need to re-start international negotiations.
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Report Post »I’m pretty sure some congress critters lurk on these blogs so listen up you fools :
STOP FUNDING UN. ITS TAXPAYER MONEY .
CONGRESSPEEPS , YOU CAN DO IT ..
SUE UN AND IPCC FOR PERPETRATING A FRAUD .
THEN GET THEM OUTTA HERE .
WE DON”T NEED UN . THEY NEED US AND OUR MONEY.
Thanx
Alvin691
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:52pmFirst you have to show injury, then you have to show direct cause. Can’t be done.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 6:40amYou assume our fool of a president doesn’t WANT to pay restitution to these people to demonstrate to the world and us how evil capitalism is.
Report Post »M-O-O-N Spells Moon
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 5:20pmAnd if you then factor in that many of these “injured nations” cut down millions of acres of forests that would have helped to counter those greenhouse emissions. Perhaps we should countersue?
Report Post »Punky
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:46pm“Developing country governments are understandably reluctant to challenge any of the big donor nations in an international court or tribunal. But this may change once the impacts of climate change become even more visible and an adequate agreement remains wanting,” he says.
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In other words, once ‘big donor nations’ are bankrupt and no longer able to donate….
Report Post »ILOVEGLENNBECK
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:34pmCharles declares Mumbai shanty town model for the world:
Report Post »http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/06/prince-charles-slum-comments
RobertCA
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:42pmis he on something ????????????????
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:59pmLets send “ Bigears” Charles to live in Dharawi with his “ horseyface” wife.
Report Post »Lets see how he likes it there. He can take AlGorda with him . I ‘ll pay for 3 bicycles, one for each of them if they promise to move there FOREVAH and never come back.
Punky
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:04amI wonder how much time he spent living there?
Report Post »jacquecustard
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:17amI think it’s called , Camilla ?
Report Post »Ford Prefect
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:33amMan I am glad his Mother is still alive. Good Find
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:50amDefinitely the royals need to take up residence in that Mumbai shanty town. Let the homeless stay a Buckingham and all the other castles belonging to the royals. The royals wouldn’t need their limos, helicopters, jets, yachts, etc. Everything is within walking distance!.
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:31pmGREENHOUSES EMIT THE GAS OXYGEN!!! Sorry, that just drives me crazy.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:45pmLOL, very true and istute. Very good point I will use in the future. LOL Thank you for that.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 1:18amHadn’t thought of that either, I like it I too will remind people of that fact!!!
Report Post »smugsmiley
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 8:48amOkay, in future I’ll refer to those gases as “Gases that further the so-called ‘greenhouse effect’ which is a feedback loop that radiates heat back into the atmosphere, causing it to warm up like a greenhouse”. That sure rolls off the tongue nicely.
Or you’re just pedantic, I don’t know.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:27pmWhat we need to do is remove ourselves from the global community. The first step should be to stop all foreign aid, and start with those threatening litigation. By the way…it’s kinda chilly today, I think I’ll go start a tire fire in the bak yard.
Report Post »SamAdams25
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:52pmAgreed. Charity begins at home, and we certainly afford to borrow money to play Santa Claus. They think we are evil now, wait til we cut off the goodies.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:58pmI got a bunch of old motor oil we can use to start them thar tires on fire.
Report Post »smugsmiley
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 7:29amMommy and Daddy don’t want me to run around with scissors! I’ll show them by running around with scissors!
Childish much?
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:24pmThere’s a much more important issue that poses an even greater danger to mankind. That’s the effort by environmentalists to suppress disagreement with their view. According to a March 11 article in London’s Sunday Telegraph, Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five death threats since he started questioning whether man was affecting climate change. Richard Lindzen, professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, said, “Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labeled as industry stooges.” Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said, “Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.”
Suppressing dissent is nothing new. Italian cosmologist Giordano Bruno taught that stars were at different distances from each other surrounded by limitless territory. He was imprisoned in 1592, and eight years later he was tried as a heretic and burned at the stake. Because he disagreed that the Earth was the center of the universe, Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633. Under the threat of torture, he recanted and was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.”
-Walter Williams
That was 1592. After 400 and some odd years, one would think it’d be a little different.
Report Post »-Nicolas Loris
NoName22
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:36pmGalileo was threatened by the Catholic church for his observations as well.
Power is a drug. “Easier to put a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven.”
Rich in money, rich in power……More often than not going hand in hand.
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:43pmYa know, I hadn’t thought about that. Really, by there own standard, THEY ARE FLAT EARTHERS! HA! That is funny.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 1:15amWhy does this not surprise me? The scary part about this all in history it was done in countries now it is being done world wide and orgainzed to form a global goverment so that we no longer can move to a free nation if ours is out of control.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com (western artist)
Report Post »Mithra
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:20pmGlenn was right. One world government is here. They want you to give up your wealthy standard of living because not everyone will be able to use the same level of resources in the future.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 5:26amNo, they want us to give up our wealth so they can live like kings and in the process they destroy America.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:13pmI’m tired of this FRAUD Al Gore .
Report Post »Gita
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 1:59amI heard that’s why Tipper left him!
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:09pmIf we don’t threaten them, we might not make Al Gore and the rest of the scammers rich. Let’s get on it boys….earn your pay….
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 1:40amThis is exactly like the book “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton.
Report Post »sodun
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 1:50amYou gotta love the irony. We foot the largest portion of UN support and they sue us. I think we should kick ‘em the 7734 out of New York and let mooch off someone else.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 8:08amTHE GREAT “GLOBAL WARMING HOAX”
The proposals to combat “GLOBAL WARMING” have more potential to destroy our freedom and prosperity than any issue since WORLD WAR II. The cost of energy is increased by all these proposals. Energy is contained in all the products used to sustain our lives.
These proposals will be devastating to the poor, where the cost of survival consumes all their income.
Do you realize that these proposals are to combat an issue that has not even been proven to exist?
AND YOU LAUGH AT DON QUIXOTE?
THESE PROPOSALS WILL ONLY ENHANCE THE POWER OF THE “PEERS.” “CAP AND TRADE WILL DESTROY YOUR WEALTH AND FREEDOM!!
BRACE YOURSELF, THOMAS PAINE, REJOICE YOU “PEERS” THE POWER OF
KING GEORGE III IS BEING RESTORED BUT UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT!
http://commonsense21c.com/CLIMATE.html
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 10:49amsodun..I agree and I have to ask I looked over and over the CONSTITUTION and CAN’T find the article or anything else that says we have to pay ANY OTHER country for ANYTHING.. hummmm.. MAYBE it‘s in OBAMA’S version..
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 11:33am“State of Fear” by Michael Crichton is a book I read a few years ago, a great thriller, and the offered true, accurate information about “global warming” that started me thinking about whether the line I was being fed by Al and his crew was accurate. Crichton’s ideas are proving true……..
Report Post »Compete or Lose
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:22pm.
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What a bunch of BS
All the analysis is based on theory NOT DIRECT CAUSE AND EFFECT.
How do they explain series of global warming that occured on earth before the industrial revolution??
These left leaning loons have an agenda that has little to do with FACT and a lot to do with REDISTRIBUTION.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on October 5, 2010 at 6:57pmThis is insane, just another way of redistributing the wealth.
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