THEN: HIDE THE DECLINE! NOW: FORMER NASA “CLIMATE EXPERT” JAMES HANSEN SUPPORTS LAWSUIT AGAINST OBAMA:
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Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.
— President ‘has four years to save Earth,’ the London Guardian, January 17, 2009.
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According to Motherboard, the lawsuit, which is being spearheaded by Our Children’s Trust, a civic engagement nonprofit for youth, charges President Obama, the fossil fuel industry, and other federal agencies for violating the plantiffs’ constitutional right to life, liberty, property, and to vital public trust resources, by continuing to use fossil fuels.
The lawsuit was filed in September 2015, and is supported by noted climate scientist James Hansen, who is a co-plaintiff in the case, as guardian for his granddaughter and for future generations. Since last year, lawyers for the defendants from various governmental organizations have attempted to get the case dismissed on various grounds, including the question of whether minors can defend their constitutional rights like adults, as well as asserting that climate change is not caused by humans.
— Children win right to sue US government on actions causing climate change (Video), Treehugger.com, Monday.
As Jazz Shaw writes at Hot Air, “I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this case will never go anywhere. But someone saw fit to allow it to move forward and the anti-energy media will have a field day with it during the slow, post-election news cycle.”
Or perhaps not, since the lawsuit renders Obama’s 2008 “This was the moment” speech a time capsule of that bizarre year, the equivalent of Phil Hartman’s Harold Hill-like monorail conman on the Simpsons, and yet another reminder that the left has replaced religion with politics, with predictable results. Sad!
Related: Michelle Malkin on “Prop-a-palooza: The Use and Abuse of Kiddie Human Shields.”