James Hansen,who runs NASA’s Goddard Institute, is currently backing a lawsuit against the administration for failing to address global warming — and is using teenagers to do it.
The federal government has violated its legal obligation to protect the atmosphere as a resource that belongs to everyone, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court last week.
Five of the plaintiffs are teenagers, who have a “profound interest in ensuring our climate remains stable enough to ensure their right to a livable future,” according to the suit filed May 4, which names a number of federal officials — from Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to Robert Gates of the Defense Department — as defendants.
The suit cites climate calculations, and is supported by NASA climate scientist James Hansen, who has a history of speaking out forcefully on the hazards of human-caused global warming. Hansen told LiveScience he had been interested in going to court over the topic in recent years.
The angle to this nonsense is that because Obama can no longer deliver the goods, the radicals want to use the courts to tyrannically impose what representative government wonÂ’t. Helped, of course, by the administration putting up little or no defense against their lawsuits.
That’s also why want courts to grant nature “human rights.”
That would allow activists to flood courts with actions demanding that judges impose policies that legislators refuse to pass, an anti-democratic impulse that would put public policy in the hands of star chamber "environment courts" rather than elected representatives of the people.
And that way, they wouldnÂ’t have to borrow teenagers as plaintiffs, but instead adopt rocks, plants, and rivers. |