Hurricane Katrina Victims to Sue Oil Companies
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, March 4, 2010, 11:49 AM
It was all a lie.
The Top Climate Scientist Admitted in February That Man-made Global Warming Was a Farce–
* The data for the vital ‘hockey stick graph’ had gone missing
* There had been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes
And, statistical analysis of raw data shows that the claims that global hurricane activity has increased due to global warming cannot be supported.
But, that won’t stop Hurricane Katrina victims from suing oil companies for causing the storm.
NewsAU.com reported:
VICTIMS of Hurricane Katrina from Mississippi are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed.
The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit.
“The plaintiffs allege that defendants’ operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming,” say the documents, seen by AFP.
The increase in global surface air and water temperatures “in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs’ private property, as well as public property useful to them”.
Hat Tip Ken Solomon
Maybe their debit cards ran out?
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 67 Comments
Picric commented:
This could be the shortest trial ever.
down with dems commented:
Ah the unforeseen consequences of the climate change lie. The domino effect of crazy.
I thought Obama said we can’t control nature… yet oil companies can create hurricanes.
Maybe Chavez was right and we not only have an earthquake generator but a hurricane generator as well. Watch out, Iran!
Kenny Solomon commented:
A few observations:
1. The first trial – yes, the same people filed this back in ’05 – was thrown out almost instantly with a rather harsh admonishment from the judge.
2. I can easily believe with the current ‘atmosphere’ that this is actually being entertained by a court of law in The United States Of America.
3. If this actually does go to trial, I’d subpoena Algore and have everyone who filed as part of the class action be at the airport when his private airplane lands and he gets into his private stretch limo for the trip to court. They won’t learn any sort of lesson, or even realize there’s actually a lesson to be learned, but it’ll be good comedy.
Cheers !
Kenny Solomon
DC Works For Us
http://www.dcworksforus.com
patman commented:
Are they demanding $2,000 prepaid debit cards too.
Jayne on the left coast commented:
Victims?? They should be thanking GOD they are survivors.
Dell commented:
I give this about two minutes of judicial review time before it’s arbitrarily thrown out – AGAIN. This time, they should be fined for filing superfluous, unfounded claims.
Liz commented:
So can the surviving family members of that suicide pact caused by Global Warming fears SUE Al Gore for murder? At a minimum he’s an accomplice. Fair is fair.
Sarge commented:
The defense should simply ask that any of the plaintiffs who have ever owned or operated a car, an furnace, a water heater, or a barbecue be automatically attached to the DEFENDANTS’ list… for having themselves contributed to the very situation they claim to have been injured by.
Asshats.
LC commented:
Good luck establishing cause and effect. Something I believe is vital in any court case.
LDMartin1959 commented:
Since the majority of these people also own cars, use electricity generated by the burning of fossil fuels and use natural gas in their homes, to they also plan to name themselves as co-defendants, since they are as guilty of the same things they claim against the oil companies?
JKB commented:
Well, they should be suing Louisiana Canada, and all the states that make up the Mississippi tributaries since it was not the storm but he Mississippi Delta that caused the greater than expected flooding. The storm made landfall as a Cat 3, which several other storms did that year as well. The damage was more extensive because the water couldn’t flow out the left side of the storm path.
czekmark commented:
Why liability lawyers have such a bad name.
bitterclinger commented:
You can’t fix stupid.
aro5o75 commented:
I hope they call the Goracle as a witness for the plaintiffs. I love it when he stutters.
Palinfan commented:
This is great news! Put the environmentalist wackos on the stand to explain their stupid alarmist crap. Then, some lawyer needs to get Anthony Watts over at Watts Up With That and the guy who runs The Air Vent blog to testify too. That should be fun.
Like another poster said on a different blog: Discovery’s gonna be a bitch.
AuntieEm commented:
I am a Mississippian….I am embarrassed by this development.
d_fitz commented:
It smewlls like Al un Jesse gotz sumpthin’ ta doo wif dis.
alaskan commented:
I am assuming they will only include Western Oil companies in this suit…….which shows they are going after the money trying to harm the industry. An enviormental tactic.
Let’s see them include OPEC, Russia in this claim.
chili palmer commented:
Lindsey Graham is a reason the global warming movement still exists. He bragged in Davos how he tricks republicans into voting for it. A UK paper suggested Graham was so good that he should replace Al Gore as the public face of the global warming movement. Since man made global warming was never proved and has recently even been disproved, it must be a crime to continue promoting it. Why isn’t Graham arrested?
Magnum commented:
I guess all the people prosecuted for fraudulently obtaining debit cards should be out of jail by now and can get in on this next round blaming someone else for a natural disaster.
Shouldn’t Bush be named as a defendant too? /sarcasm
S. Wolf commented:
bitterclinger #15
Sure you can, neuter and spay ‘em. That’ll “fix” them so at least they don’t transmit their stupid genes.
Cargosquid commented:
Love it! And, if the companies lose (doubtful) I’m sure that the citizens of the Gulf Coast won’t mind when the very industries that support the Coast move away or close……
James commented:
After these plaintiffs lose on a motion to dismiss or at trial, I hope the court orders them to pay the attorneys fees of the defendants, based on a frivolous suit.
KR commented:
It was the stupid/corrupt politicians who repeatedly diverted levy money to other things.
Andreas K. commented:
Whatever they’re smoking, I want to try it.
Maybe I can sue the US for bombing my hometown in 1944.
Or even better, I sue the French for Napoleon’s wars! But the US are richer, so…
KR commented:
If any one is responsible, it would be the politicians who had the power to get the levies upgraded but did not.
And most likely these people who are suing voted for these politicians repeatedly.
eaglewingz08 commented:
While I can’t help but hope the motion to dismiss by the defendants would be granted; I can only fantasize Al Gore, UAE James Hannon and all the other AGW alarmists being hauled in on fraud charges by the defendants and grilled on the stand, and through discovery we actually get the documents and the truth (which we here all know already but the democraps having their heads up their butts refuse to acknowledge) that this AGW is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated in Western science (bigger even than the Soviet Lysenko affair).
retire05 commented:
Gee, I wonder if I can get a list of those who have signed onto this law suit in the event they win? I spent a year of my life in Mississippi helping people rebuild their lives, and homes, after Katrina because they did not have the money to pay someone to do it.
I figure that I have about 3,120 hours racked up, and if they are going to get another bonus check, I should be able to back bill them for all my labor and I still have the list of names of the people I worked for, for free.
$15.00/hours sounds reasonable, don’t you think?
wanumba commented:
What rise in sea levels?
Shall we take a walk to the beach and just check that out with a ruler?
wanumba commented:
The US taxpayer should sue New Orleans for running up ridiculous energy bills for pumps to keep a city built below sea level … above the water line.
Everyone ELSE in the country who gets flooded out has been urged quite strongly to move to higher ground and rebuild – encouraged by prohibitive insurance rates for flood zones. How come they get a pass?
MVH commented:
Hmmm…I wonder if the, uh, “plaintiffs” are generations-long welfare recipients playing the useful idiots to Leftists who just want to “spread the wealth around.”
Since it’s just too hard for “those poor people” to be adults on their own, they won’t bust their collective **s and get wealth for themselves. Sooo, sick daddy government on those eee-ville oil companies, and sue for damages. If daddy wins, then “spread the wealth around” that way. After all, the oil companies have got billion$. They don’t need all that dough.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Excuse me, but isn’t the burden of proof on them? They have real proof of this. I’m so sick of these people, I’m sick of hearing about Hurricane Katrina. How about they sue the incompetent corrupt mayor, and idiot former Governor. Better yet, sue Al Gore, and the others who are committing this fraud!
avery commented:
What happen to it was Bush fault,now it the oil company.
Hedgehog commented:
HEY! THE DEBATE IS OVER! SHUT UP AND GET OUT YOUR WALLETS!
SteveCan commented:
What freak’n alternate universe are these morons from anyway??? Bueller? Anyone?
wanumba commented:
Redistribution Planet.
Buffalobob commented:
Tort reform, we don’t need no stinken tort reform
expat commented:
Wasn’t there some guy down in their neck of the woods who uneccesarily operated a freezer to keep his cash cold?
I hope these people don’t benefit from any taxes paid by workers in the oil industry or by gas station operators, or by restaurant owners who use energy to cook for all the tourists who visit NOLA.
Michael commented:
This would be funny but when insane are running the asylum we may find ourselves “settling” this for billions of dollars. Take a look at the recent USDA Pigford 2 settlement as an example: Another $1 Billion (not yet in the budget!) to go to farmers claiming discrimination over 30 years ago – and they get their defaulted loans written off. The redistribution of income continues.
oldguy commented:
From what I read about international finance, we will have to pay for our exports with our gold reserves, as the Asian nations will no longer recognize our markers.
May we live in interesting times.
oldguy commented:
Sorry, I mean imports.
Winefred commented:
I thought this kind of lawsuit was organized on the “deepest pocket” principle — so why aren’t these idiots suing world’s top devil-may-care polluter, China? After all, their economy is about to leap to numero uno, thanks to the Obama era. But then, I guess in order to sue China, you’d have to be able to find it on a map first. One thing at a time.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Well, I think the whole country oughta sue Nagin and Landreiu and the totality of the city and state that elected them, for their part in “intentionally and willfully doing nothing so that they could blame it all on Bush,” and then for stealing the nation’s money (like the looters they proved to be) in the form of prepaid thousand-dollar debit cards.
NOLA – City Of Thieves.
Anita commented:
First – I’d like to personally thank commenter retire05 for coming down and helping us rebuild. We have our whackos – that doesn’t diminish the good that you’ve done.
Second – as a resident and native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast – All I can say is UGH.
I have to address a couple of the themes in the comments, however. Let’s not diminish the damage done here… I understand you’re tired of hearing about it.. so are we.
We lost the vast majority of our house – all of our possessions – and a whole lot of our unique coast back in 2005. If not for the help of folks like retire05 we wouldn’t be where we are now. For the record – we have yet to complete the repairs to our house.. and not for lack of trying.
Also – there are a few snide comments which are obviously making reference to New Orleans.. corrupt mayor… former governor… levees failing… Uh guys the article clearly states this is Mississippi. The entire Mississippi Gulf Coast was all but completely wiped off the map five years ago – and STILL people don’t seem to realize it.
Oh well – I suppose with this embarrassing global warming drivel coming from MS people I should be thankful that most folks are just gonna blame it on NOLA anyway.