On Monday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by San Francisco and Oakland against the five biggest privately owned oil companies for climate change-related damages. Why? He believes the problem is too big to be decided by the federal courts and that Congress and the administration should take care of it.<br /><br />Fat chance of that happening anytime soon, and the courts are at least partly to blame.<br /><br />In his ruling, US District Judge William Alsup agreed with the plaintiffs that there is a “vast [scientific] consensus that the combustion of fossil fuels has … materially increased carbon dioxide levels,” which has driven up average global temperatures and raised sea levels. Likewise, he noted that the oil companies “have allegedly long known the threat fossil fuels pose to the global climate,” but nonetheless funded public relations campaigns that “downplayed the risks” and disparaged climate scientists.<br /><br />Full story: https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/judge-should-not-have-deferred-to-congress-executive-branch-in-fossil-fuel-climate-case<br /><br />SUBSCRIBE TO THE MIKE MALLOY YOUTUBE CHANNEL<br />ONE VIDEO A DAY...EVERY DAY<br />http://www.youtube.com/MikeMalloyVideo<br /><br />SUPPORT THE MIKE MALLOY YOUTUBE CHANNEL<br />http://tinyurl.com/MalloyChannelDonations<br /><br />MIKE MALLOY YOUTUBE CHANNEL PATREON PAGE<br />https://www.patreon.com/MikeMalloyShow<br /><br />VISIT THE MIKE MALLOY SHOW HOMEPAGE<br />http://www.mikemalloy.com/<br /><br />SUBSCRIBE TO AN AUDIO/VIDEO PODCAST<br />http://www.mikemalloy.com/register/
