Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Little footnote denotes big change at SCOTUS

Little footnote denotes big change at SCOTUS
I can only assume this story has been spiked.
That, or the press collectively fail to understand its significance.


Lonely Boy Algore
In 2007 the Court, with full global warming religious fervor, held:

    The harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized. The Government’s own objective assessment of the relevant science and a strong consensus among qualified experts indicate that global warming threatens, inter alia, a precipitate rise in sea levels, severe and irreversible changes to natural ecosystems, a significant reduction in winter snowpack with direct and important economic consequences, and increases in the spread of disease and the ferocity of weather events.

Now the Court has radically changed direction:


    … The Court, we caution, endorses no particular view of the complicated issues related to carbon dioxide emissions and climate change.

I’ll take that as a huge win for science, common sense and society generally, including its essential support structure of industry and abundant, affordable energy supply.


I just wonder why the media aren’t reporting SCOTUS’s apparent conversion from global warming religion to, at most, global warming agnosticism.
[Junk Science Guy]

1 comment:

Alear said...

A point for SCOTUS, Rodg, but I see that Maryland is slipping further into the dark ages:

MD Becomes First State to Require Environmental Literacy

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