Global warming can’t be ignored, Montana’s top court says, upholding landmark climate case

We've seen a 1ºC warming already


Incorrect. Aside from Urban Heat Island Effect, there is NO WARMING and planet Earth is NOT WARMING and SURFACE AIR PRESSURE PROVES IT.


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as for canes you are correct... there is the data... strongest decade 1940s, second place 1890s...





and that proves oceans are NOT WARMING, because if they were warming, there would be more and bigger canes just as CO2 FRAUD told us...


 
Incorrect. Aside from Urban Heat Island Effect, there is NO WARMING and planet Earth is NOT WARMING and SURFACE AIR PRESSURE PROVES IT.


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as for canes you are correct... there is the data... strongest decade 1940s, second place 1890s...





and that proves oceans are NOT WARMING, because if they were warming, there would be more and bigger canes just as CO2 FRAUD told us...



Right ... there were no hurricanes in the Atlantic until 1492 AD ... good, thank you for this ...
 
..and that, in and of itself, is a victory for the people~

I do believe that the court made it clear that it did recognize climate change and the dangers it holds for the people of Montana.

From the link:

“Plaintiffs showed at trial—without dispute—that climate change is harming Montana’s environmental life support system now and with increasing severity for the foreseeable future,” the order states. “Plaintiffs showed that climate change does impact the clear, unpolluted air of the Bob Marshall wilderness; it does impact the availability of clear water and clear air in the Bull Mountains; and it does exacerbate the wildfire stench in Missoula, along with the rest of the State.”
What danger?
 
Chris Landsea is one of the world's foremost experts on hurricanes and their formation ... he holds a fairly senior post at NOAA's National Hurricane Center in Florida, you can find his biography and professional credentials there ... he was kicked off the IPCC for his oppositional views ...

There's not one shred of evidence that hurricane intensity or frequency is changing ... not one shred ... this data is widely available ... go ahead and crunch the numbers yourself ... it's Middle School arithmetic to calculate averages ... and we only have 50 years of data ... use a spreadsheet ... easy peasy and frankly no excuse not to do this IF you're making crazy claims ...

We've seen a 1ºC warming already ... where has climate changed? ... you claim it is ... then show me your math ...
December in Chicago, is at average as of today.
 
This is about the Law ... not science ... do we want our courts to violate the Law? ...

Montana State Constitution, Article IX (spoiled for length):

ARTICLE IX
ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Section 1. PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT. (1) The state and each person
shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environmentin Montana for present and future
generations.
(2) The legislature shall provide for the administration and enforcement of this duty.
(3) The legislature shall provide adquateremedies for the protection of the environmental
life support system from degradation and provide adequate remedies to prevent unreasonable
depletion and degradation of natural resources.
Section 2. RECLAMATION. All lands disturbed by the taking of natural resources
shall be reclaimed. The legislature shall provide effective requirements and standards for the
reclamation of lands disturbed.
Section 3 . WATER RIGHTS. (1) All existing rights to the use of any waters for any
useful or beneficial purpose are hereby recognized and confirmed.
(2) The use of all water that is now or may hereafter be appropriated for sale, rent,
distribution, or other beneficial use, the right of way over the lands of others for all ditches, drains,
flumes, canals, and aqueducts necessarily used in connection therewith, and the sites for
reservoirs necessary for collecting and storing water shall be held to be a public use.
(3) All surface, underground, flood, and atmospheric waters within the boundaries of the
state are the property of the state for the use of its people and are subject to appropriation for
beneficial uses as provided by law.
(4) The legislature shall provide for the administration, control, and regulation of water
rights and shall establish a system of centralized records, in addition to the present system of local
records.
Section 4. CULTURAL RESOURCES. The legislature shall provide for the
identification, acquisition, restoration, enhancement, preservation, and administration of scenic,
historic, archeologic, scientific, cultural, and recreational areas, sites, records and objects, and for
their use and enjoyment by the people.
What law?
 
The one I quoted ... hold your mouse over the "spoiler" box and click ...

"The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future
generations."



and "restricting CO2" has nothing to do with that....
 
The one I quoted ... hold your mouse over the "spoiler" box and click ...

"The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future
generations."
What was the crime?
 
Yep! Nothing changed in climate in Chicago for December. Weather is daily and hourly

Oh ... we can see changes back and forth over several months, or even years for that matter ... that's why it's important to look at the 100-year averages ... and, right, these aren't changing climate ...

I checked ... 45ºF and rain ... you should burn more tires ... I'm afraid we can't burn fossil fuels fast enough to save Chicago ... not without torching Saudi Arabia's oil wells ...
 
Biggest hoax perped on the populace....


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Montana leading the climate change fight??
Not what most would expect, unless they know Montana--a state that always goes its own way--and pays little attention to the national culture wars rhetoric:


Montana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a landmark climate ruling that said the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for global warming.
The justices, in a 6-1 ruling, rejected the state’s argument that greenhouse gases released from Montana fossil fuel projects are minuscule on a global scale and reducing them would have no effect on climate change, likening it to asking: “If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?”

The plaintiffs can enforce their environmental rights “without requiring everyone else to stop jumping off bridges or adding fuel to the fire,” Chief Justice Mike McGrath wrote for the majority. “Otherwise the right to a clean and healthful environment is meaningless.”

Only a few other states, including Hawaii, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, have similar environmental protections enshrined in their constitutions.


The lawsuit filed in 2020 by 16 Montanans —who are now ages 7 to 23 — was considered a breakthrough in attempts by young environmentalists and their attorneys to use the courts to leverage action on climate change.


The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a district court ruling in the nation’s first constitutional climate change trial , affirming that the youth plaintiffs have a “fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment” while revoking two Montana statutes.

The 70-page decision, authored by Chief Justice Mike McGrath, comes 16 months after Lewis and Clark District Court Judge Kathy Seeley ruled in the landmark Held v. Montana lawsuit, explicitly stating that the state’s greenhouse gas emissions are “proven to be a substantial factor in causing climate impacts to Montana’s environment, and harm and injury to the youth plaintiffs.” Seeley’s decision also rolled back two laws enacted by the 2023 legislature that changed the Montana Environmental Policy Act.

The state immediately appealed the decision to the Montana Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments in the appeal in July. The court found in a 6-to-1 decision that Montana’s constitutional guarantee of a “clean and healthful environment” includes a stable climate system, “which is clearly within the object and true principles of the Framers inclusion of the right.”


“Plaintiffs showed at trial—without dispute—that climate change is harming Montana’s environmental life support system now and with increasing severity for the foreseeable future,” the order states. “Plaintiffs showed that climate change does impact the clear, unpolluted air of the Bob Marshall wilderness; it does impact the availability of clear water and clear air in the Bull Mountains; and it does exacerbate the wildfire stench in Missoula, along with the rest of the State.”
This is an example of a dictatorship by the black robes

They are substituting their opinion for the wisdom of the people
 
...explicitly stating that the state’s greenhouse gas emissions are “proven to be a substantial factor in causing climate impacts to Montana’s environment...
If that is the case why aren't they halting all fossil fuel use in their state.
 

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