Supreme Court says scientists do not agree on relation between CO2 and climate, is not a settled issue, suggests reading of climate realist Dyson

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6/23/11, "Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics," Financial Post, Lawrence Solomon

"The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming sceptics. Not by virtue of their legal reasoning – the global warming case they decided turned on a technical legal issue — but in their surprising commentary. Global warming is by no means a settled issue, they made clear, suggesting it would be

• foolhardy to assume it was.

“The court, we caution, endorses no particular view of the complicated issues related to carbon-dioxide emissions and climate change,” reads the 8-0 decision,

• delivered by the court’s acclaimed liberal,
  

• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The court decision noted that the Environmental Protection Agency itself had “Acknowledg[ed] that not all scientists agreed on the causes and consequences of the rise in global temperatures,” before suggesting readers consult “views opposing” the conventional wisdom. Specifically, the justices’ recommended reading was a superb profile of Princeton’s Freeman Dyson, perhaps America’s most respected scientist, written in the New York Times Magazine, March 29, 2009.

Justice Ginsburg notes carbon dioxide is necessary and ubiquitous, and thus shouldn’t be the target of indiscriminate attacks. “After all, we each emit carbon dioxide merely by breathing,” she notes, repeating a point that Dyson couldn’t have said better himself.

To see exactly what the Supreme Court said in its remarkable American Electric Power v. Connecticut decision, click here."

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While CO2 has increased, temperatures have decreased, per UAH and HADCRUT for the US and globally (bright green and bright blue lines). CO2 does not cause global warming. The UN's computerized predictions are quite wrong Unfortunately, trillions of dollars have been stolen from people based on a falsehood. ed.

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The 2007 Supreme Court 5-4 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant is in effect reversed by Justice Ginsberg's words. It is highly unlikely that correct or objective reading material on the topic could have reached the Justices at the time of the 2007 decision. The CO2 industry grew for decades without public airing:

• Entergy was a plaintiff in the 2007 Supreme Court case which it won. Entergy stock rose to an all time high:
  

1. April 6, 2007: Supreme court CO2 decision favored big business. Big energy company Entergy was among plaintiffs-and winners-in the 2007 US Supreme Court case ruling (5 to 4) that carbon dioxide was a pollutant (4/2/07):

• "Wall Street understood this. On Monday, when the EPA decision came down, Entergy stock
  
• jumped to an all-time high of $107.52 per share."...

• The ruling made big money for Entergy Corp.

2. October 2009, Entergy's chairman hysterically advances the possible

• extinction of humanity without urgent action on global warming and

cap and trade. The Chairman of Entergy speaks at a White House meeting portraying his

• giant corporation as a humanitarian against evil Wall Street interests.

3. December 10, 2009, AP, Entergy Chairman invokes deadly threat again, says

• "bullets"

aimed at us due to global warming.

• Giddy after the EPA CO2 ruling in his company's favor, he says: ""With EPA moving forward, they're sending a clear message that this is a serious problem and

• either you're going to deal with it or we're going to deal with it ," Leonard said
  
• after a speech at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service....

"We're playing Russian Roulette with the planet and our economy," Leonard said. "The difference is

• there's a bullet in every chamber except one.""...

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Reference:

• 1. "Editorial: Ruling on EPA favors Big Energy," April 6, 2007, Washington Examiner

• 2. "Entergy CEO Warns of Humanity's Extinction if Climate Legislation not Passed," 10/14/09, Gristmill.org, by Brad Johnson

• 3. AP, "Entergy CEO: EPA Sending Congress Message to Act," 12/10/09, by Andrew DeMillo, Seattle Times
  

Entergy also advises that the 'hockey stick' graph is just fine! (item #30) ed.

via Climate Depot