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| Global Warming To Be Put On Trial?
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| from the break-out-the-popcorn dept.
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| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 26, @08:23 (Businesses)
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/26/0117230/Global-Warming-To-Be-Put-On-Trial
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Mr_Blank writes to mention that the United States' largest business lobby
is pushing for a public trial to examine the [0]evidence of global
warming and have a judge make a ruling on whether human beings are
warming the planet to dangerous effect. "The goal of the chamber, which
represents 3 million large and small businesses, is to fend off potential
emissions regulations by undercutting the scientific consensus over
climate change. If the EPA denies the request, as expected, the chamber
plans to take the fight to federal court. The EPA is having none of it,
calling a hearing a 'waste of time' and saying that a threatened lawsuit
by the chamber would be 'frivolous.' [...] Environmentalists say the
chamber's strategy is an attempt to sow political discord by challenging
settled science — and note that in the famed 1925 Scopes trial, which
pitted lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in a courtroom
battle over a Tennessee science teacher accused of teaching evolution
illegally, the scientists won in the end."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/26/0117230
Links:
0.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-trial25-2009aug25,0,901567.story
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