Global Warming Court Will Punish You

One of the highest ranking lawyers in the UK has called for the creation of an International Court, similar to the Int'l Ct. of Justice in the Hague, to enforce environmental laws, including fines and other penalties against nations, businesses and even individuals!

The link to the story:

The Telegraph

www.telegraph.co.uk...

Stephen Hockman, QC, a former chairman of the Bar Council, is calling for an international court for the environment to punish states that fail to protect wildlife and prevent climate change.

According to Hockman, "the court may be able to fine businesses or states but its main role will be in making "declaratory rulings" that influence and embarrass countries into upholding the law."

Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, has agreed to take this proposal into account at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, when considering how to make these international agreements on climate change binding.

Such a Court represents just one more step of relinquishing sovereign and personal rights to an international body that "would influence public opinion which in turn would force Governments to take the environment seriously."

What makes this even more alarming than it would otherwise be is the fact that mounting evidence supports the opinions of many that GW is a sham based on selective examples and ignorant of empiric evidence that the Earth may in fact be cooling, and that man has little or no influence over either!

A spokesman for Friends of the Earth said: "We think any institution that is going to promote and help people enforce their right to a clean and healthy environment is a good thing."

Are we ready for Greenpeace, PETA, and Friends of the Earth to have an international forum with which to harass business and individuals with legal sanction? Have you checked your emissions lately?


[edit on 30-11-2008 by jdub297]

[edit on 30-11-2008 by jdub297]

[edit on 30-11-2008 by jdub297]