As Al Gore rushes to blame the increasing global temeratures on human beings, lawyers are moving just as quickly to find ways to profit from it. Although their is hardly a consensus as to the underlying cause for the increased temperatures over the last few decades, lawyers intend to sue corporations which may have ‘contributed’ to global warming.

Some lawyers are trying to tie the damage from Hurricane Katrina to global warming – and the energy companies who may have contributed to that warming.

Mr. Susman predicts large insurance companies, which have paid out billions of dollars in claims in the past two decades because of powerful hurricanes, eventually will become plaintiffs in broad greenhouse-effect litigation against energy companies.

It might seem difficult to convince judges and juries that losses from intense storms or rising sea levels came from carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants. Even if American power plants caused the warming, what of China and India and other industrial countries’ roles in the process?

But lawyers are testing those waters.

“You’re going to see some really serious exposure on the part of companies that are emitting CO{-2},” Mr. Susman predicted. “I can’t say for sure it’s going to be as big as the tobacco settlements, but then again it may even be bigger. We’re not going to know until the regulatory environment becomes clearer.”

As has been the case in our so-called representative form of government, global warming appears to be yet another issue which will be decided on by the courts. If frivolous lawsuits like these are allowed into the court rooms, and some activist judge rules that energy companies were responsible for Katrina it will force the American people to not only buy into the myth, but pay the price associated with it.

Even if there were a scientific consensus on the cause of global warming (many people, including respected scientists believe that it is caused by the sun which amounts to 98% of our solar systems mass), it is rediculous to argue only certain companies should be held liable.

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