Global Warming
Global Warming Targets American Business
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Targeting American energy and manufacturing in what top trial lawyers describe as “the next asbestos and tobacco lawsuit rackets,” the plaintiffs’ bar is seeking billions of dollars in damages in current and pending class action mass tort lawsuits alleging corporate liability for “global warming.” Combined with a costly new $2 trillion regulatory regime promoted by global warming allies in the White House and in Congress, the threat to the struggling American economy is clear: 4 million U.S. jobs lost before 2030, and high energy prices, fewer jobs, and loss of industrial output are estimated to reduce gross domestic product (GDP) by between $631 billion and $669 billion by 2030.
Equally clear is that, according to today’s best available science, regulation-by-lawsuit and by draconian federal enforcement will not change the climate. The plaintiffs’ bar is relentlessly developing its long-range litigation strategy, testing theories in cases as diverse as Kivalina (an Alaskan Eskimo village that has sued 22 major energy providers in the U.S.) and the various Hurricane Katrina lawsuits.
Challenge To Be Met
The plaintiff bar lawsuit strategies and the proposed regulatory regime are based on alleged “scientific consensus” that global climate change is caused by human activity that produces greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide. As a result, an aggressive U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “endangerment” finding and the proposed “cap-and-trade” legislation will soon formalize the multi-million dollar private “carbon credit” market currently in operation in the U.S. This will enforce strict, costly mandates and penalties on energy and manufacturing. In effect, the EPA and cap-and-trade legislation will artificially inject “certainty” into the climate change debate with onerous new mandates – despite the total failure of cap-and-trade programs in Europe.
FFCJ Litigation Initiative and Education Program
If the “junk science” conclusions are successfully challenged, as FFCJ and Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) plan to do, the basis for the mass tort lawsuits and costly regulatory regime are removed and the plaintiffs’ bar’s determined assault will be halted in its tracks. FFCJ will provide major financial support for SLF and its team of scientific, political, and legal experts, who have developed a brilliant litigation strategy designed to expose the fraudulent nature of cap-and-trade and carbon trading, which rely on full adherence to the human-causation global warming theory espoused by Al Gore and elements of the IPCC. Additionally, in its multi-year partnership with SLF, FFCJ has developed a national initiative to widely report on global warming liability developments as proposed by legislatures or threatened through lawsuits.
Now What Do We Do?
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