From: "Mark" 

BTW, I just got around to starting to read "State of Fear" and
this stuff sounds like it's right out of the novel -- it probably is
 

They'll lose. 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> Yes, your point and other procedural things are what I had in mind when I
> said I wasn't sure yet if it was weird or not.  This ruling could just
> mean
> that the lawsuit wasn't on its face, taking everything and all allegations
> in favor of the plaintiff to be true, so without any basis to be thrown
> out
> immediately before any proceedings whatsoever.  If this was a motion for
> summary judgment, then its already to weird for me at that point.
>
> Gary
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> Sounds like good news. After they cannot prove their case the global
> warming
>> canard will fade into the obscurity it deserves. It may turn into a "be
>> careful what you wish for" problem for all those grant grubbing
> "scientists"
>> as they see their funding go south after the fact as well.
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:430d1ee0{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > Judge Jeffrey White, a former partner at Orrick, Herrington &
>> > Sutcliffe,
>> > was appointed to the Northern District by President Bush in
2002. < no
>> > liberal judges making this ruling >
>> >
>> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050825/ap_on_sc/global_warming
>> >
>> > SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge here said environmental groups and four
>> > U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the
>> > overseas projects they financially back contribute to global warming.
>> >
>> > The decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White is the first
> to
>> > say that groups alleging global warming have a right to sue.
>> >
>> > "This is the first decision in the country to say that
climate change
>> > causes sufficient injury to give a plaintiff standing, to open the
>> > courthouse door," said Ronald Shems, a Vermont attorney
representing
>> > Friends of the Earth.
>> >
>> > That group, in addition to Greenpeace and the cities of Boulder, Colo.,
>> > Santa Monica, Oakland and Arcata, Calif., sued Overseas Private
> Investment
>> > Corp. and the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Those government
>> > agencies provide loans and insure billions of dollars of U.S.
>> > investors'
>> > money for development projects overseas. Many of the projects are power
>> > plants that emit greenhouses gases that the groups allege cause global
>> > warming.
>> >
>> > The coalition argues that the National Environmental Policy Act, the
>> > law
>> > requiring environmental assessments of proposed development projects in
>> > the United States, should apply to the U.S.-backed projects overseas.
> The
>> > U.S. law should apply, they say, because those developments are
>> > contributing to the degradation of the U.S. environment via global
> warming
>> >
>> > The case is Friends of the Earth v. Watson, 02-4106.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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