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#248392 by Badstrat
Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:24 pm
Right on!! A bunch of buffoons that can't even tell you what the weather will be through the week with much accuracy are going to control the temp of the planet. Did they get the sun to agree with that? I suppose I'll go to the climate change gulag for posting this, if they have their way. Is Philippe Sands QC aware that the moon is made of cheese?
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Top International Lawyer: Make Climate Change Illegal And Silence Skeptics Forever
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... s-forever/

by James Delingpole6 Oct 20150
Climate change is such a pressing, dangerous and universal threat that it should be made illegal under international law, a top barrister has told a conference of leading lawyers in London.

Philippe Sands QC, an international law specialist and Professor of Law at University College London, argued that the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) should make it an “obligation under international law” to ensure that global temperatures never rise more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

This would follow the precedent of a landmark decision in June this year by a Dutch court as a result of a case brought by a green activist group – the Urgenda Foundation – against the Netherlands government. The court ruled that the government must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by much more than it had intended – by at least 25 per cent by 2020, relative to 1990 levels – in order to prevent possibly dangerous climate change.

In its judgement the court referred repeatedly to the 2° C target, as if it were an article of holy writ, accepted by all, disputed by no one.

Sands told his audience of leading judges, lawyers and legal academics from 11 nations that the time was now ripe for such legislation to be adopted at the international level:

The ICJ too could play a role in relation to that target, one based on science. It could be asked to confirm, for example, that the 2 degrees Celsius target now reflects an obligation under international law, and that its implementation imposes obligations to reduce emissions, including if necessary by phasing out altogether certain emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

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