Obama Wants You To Sue For Global Warming "Damages"

Newsmax.com:

"Victims" of climate change would be able to sue the federal government or private businesses over greenhouse gas emissions under language buried in the House climate bill, according to a report in the Washington Times.

Under the provision, anyone "who has suffered, or reasonably expects to suffer, a harm attributable, in whole or in part," to government inaction to file a "citizen suit."

The term “harm” is broadly defined as “any effect of air pollution (including climate change), currently occurring or at risk of occurring.”

The United Nations scientific panel studying climate change predicts in its latest report that the global climate is likely to rise between 3.5 and 8 degrees Fahrenheit if the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reaches twice the level of 1750.

By 2100, sea levels are likely to rise between 7 to 23 inches, it said, and the changes now underway will continue for centuries to come, according to a report in the New York Times.

If the worst case climate scenario comes to pass and the House provision makes its way into the final climate bill signed by the President, lawyers may be in for a field day of litigation.

“You could be spawning lawsuits at almost any place [climate-change modeling] computers place at harm’s risk,” Bill Kovacs, energy lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told the Times.

Guess that recent meeting between Barry and Al Gore went well--for Gore, that is. Now private businesses already being hurt by the struggling economy can look forward to frivolous lawsuits by yahoos claiming they were harmed by the hoax that is global warming. The U.S. is already the most litigious country in the world and because of a scam artist by the name of Al Gore, Barack Obama plans to make it worse.