I still say the best response would be for the companies to simply stop selling their product to the cities, counties, and states that are suing them. If they want to go extreme, just don’t sell any of their products in those states, which would include gas, diesel, and motor oils
Suing over climate change: Taking fossil fuel companies to court
If climate change were a disaster film, it would likely be accused of being too over-the-top: wildfires reducing entire towns to ashes, hurricanes swamping cities, droughts draining lakes and withering fields, and raging oceans redrawing the very maps of our coasts. And now, many cities and states are asking, who’s going to pay for all of this?
“This is real; we’re on the front line of climate change right here in Charleston,” said John Tecklenburg, the mayor of Charleston, South Carolina. The city’s been battered by an endless parade of floods due to sea level rise. Some desperate homeowners have resorted to raising their homes by several feet.
“In the next 50 years we’ll see another two to three feet of sea level rise,” Tecklenburg said. “The water is our greatest asset; it has also become our biggest challenge.”
According to the actual sea level measurements from NOAA, Charleston is at “3.39 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence
interval of +/- 0.19 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1901 to 2021 which is equivalent to a change of 1.11 feet in 100 years.” That’s a pretty good long term monitoring station, which shows no acceleration, and is pretty much in line with what should be happening during a Holocene warm period. So, not getting 2-3 feet in the next 50 years, Mr. Scaremongerer. Actual data is inconvenient for the climate cult, which is why they never show it.
Underneath one of those rocks are the fossil fuel companies. Study after study has shown the companies’ carbon emissions from oil, coal and gas are major contributors to climate change.
Charleston is one of more than two dozen cities, counties and states that are suing these companies (including ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips).
Tecklenburg said, “I feel if you’ve contributed to the problem, that you should contribute to the solution.”
So, then, why aren’t all these governments giving up their own use? They could simply refuse to allow the sale of these products in their areas. Their governments could stop using them, right? But, that would be inconvenient, especially for the politicians and elites who want to go on nice trips. Oh, and how much of Charleston’s economy depends on tourism, which requires people to drive and flying? That would be around 24%, to the tune of over $8 billion annually. How about all the fossil fuels to bring in all the seafood and other foods and drink? Those boats aren’t wind powered.
“So, in some ways, it is a bit of a money grab?” asked Tracy.
“Well, to the extent that they participated in what created this need; it’s a money grab because there’s some responsibility for what happened.”
Of course it is. A shakedown. If you’re company was getting sued, would you do business with the plaintiff?
Teach
Do your computations take into consideration that tg e RATE of sea level increase has been going up? Do you expect that the rate of increase will NOT continue to increase as it has already been doing? The actual rate of sea level rise has more than doubled in the last 100 years as per NOAA
climate.gov
Global sea level rise
Of course that is the average which would indicate about 1 foot by 2050. Some areas will be larger as sea level is not a constant
Looks to me like Obamas Vineyard house will be safe for 100+ years.
Are you sure about that, John? https://notrickszone.com/2021/11/18/sea-level-alarmism-unravels-as-earths-coastlines-are-observed-expanding-since-1984/
I would 100 percent agree. These leftist liberals can end our society’s problems all by themselves. Just shut down their oil and natural gas grid that powers their homes. Ban Fossil fueled cars and force everyone to buy an electric car.
Then they can build a million windmills and mandate solar panels on every house and business.
End of our problem. I say Boulder and NYC and all these cities SAVE US from ourselves. ONLY THEY know what is best for all of us and that of course is suing oil companies.
It only takes ONE LAWSUIT TO WIN and once that happens then it is on the books to be cited in the 1000’s of other cases that will come after it. Sue oil out of business or make it so expensive as to be untenable.
Hairy points out some awesome facts. The sea is rising which is why the cities need to sue oil companies to extinction. I mean Boulder, Colorado has so much to worry about being a 5000 plus feet in the air.
The seas are going to rise by a foot in the next 30 years despite rising only……wait let me go google that. Be right back….Oh yeah it seems NASA says it best.
Stated another way, the ice sheets’ response to warming continued for 8,000 years after warming had already ended, with the meltwater contribution to global sea levels totaling 45 additional meters of sea-level rise.
NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY THE LITTLE KIDDIES ARE HORRIFIED.
From about 3,000 years ago to about 100 years ago, sea levels naturally rose and declined slightly, with little change in the overall trend. Over the past 100 years, global temperatures have risen about 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F), with sea level response to that warming totaling about 160 to 210 mm (with about half of that amount occurring since 1993), or about 6 to 8 inches. And the current rate of sea-level rise is unprecedented over the past several millennia.
In other words NASA is in the business of scaring the shit out of people with word salad.
Between about 21,000 years and about 11,700 years ago, Earth warmed about 4 degrees C (7.2 degrees F), and the oceans rose (with a slight lag after the onset of warming) about 85 meters, or about 280 feet. However, sea levels continued to rise another 45 meters (about 150 feet) after the warming ended, to a total of 130 meters (from its initial level, before warming began), or about 430 feet, reaching its modern level about 3,000 years ago.
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY ARGUE WITH THIS. This means that because it has warmed about 1.5 degrees in the last one hundred years and things lag we are in for another 35-50 feet of sea level rise according to NASA.
Thats it. I am building an ark cause we all know SCIENCE that is FUNDED by the left is all HONEST and full of INTEGRITY and stuff.
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How dare you use facts! to argue against the Noble Left! Facts are raaaaacist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic!
Quality of life is tied, no, it’s shackled, bolted and welded, to the availability of dependable, cost-effective energy. So, even if we had burned every stick of wood and every block of peat, every last speck of available dung and every ounce of whale, seal and walrus blubber, we would still be living with mid 18th century technology. The quality of life that we enjoy right now would be utterly impossible.
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!!!