Comments on: The Weekly Carboholic: UK says Greenpeace stopped climate damage

By: The Weekly Carboholic: Devil in the ACES details – fossil fuel industry pork | Scholars and Rogues

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:22:21 +0000

[...] to fall no later than 2015. A similar conclusion was reached by a couple of Tyndall researchers and reported by the Carboholic in September, 2008, where they concluded that “it is difficult to envisage anything other than a planned [...]

By: The Weekly Carboholic: Climate disruption will disrupt volcanism too | Scholars and Rogues

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:11:37 +0000

[...] beginning of carbon emissions lawsuits. He’s probably correct, even though there have been a few lawsuits already relating to climate. But with the courts now involved, it’s fair to say that Arctic [...]

By: The Weekly Carboholic: GPS degradation to affect climate measurements too | Scholars and Rogues

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:16:42 +0000

[...] reflected, the less is absorbed and kept within the Earth’s climate system. In fact, as the Carbo mentioned back in 2008, the albedo effect is huge – the energy reflected alone could save the equivalent of 44 billion tons CO2. The [...]

By: verite

verite — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:58:28 +0000

There is precedence here for the Green Party workers and others aquitted in Norfolk for damage to GM crops. and also in Ireland where the Ploughshare protestors were aquitted for damaging US aircraft. This court acknowledged that the USUK attack on Iraq was illegal and a war-crime, (as does almost all independent legal advice, including in the US) so Bush admin. personel are finding their overseas travel increasingly restriced (as we saw Rumsfeld running out of Germany to avoid arrest)
Juries rely on evidence aswell as presentations by both sides.

By: Rho

Rho — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:39:23 +0000

While I applaud Green Peace’s motives I deplore many of their methods which all to frequently border on terrorism. Cases like this SHOULD be overturned on appeal to prevent them from doing something truly stupid, like sabotaging something that results in someones death due to “unforeseen consequences”.

By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:30:58 +0000

I was really surprised by the acquittal, actually. I figured that something like this would have to be more specific in the law for it to work. I wonder if the prosecution just plain sucked in the Greenpeace case, or if they were hopefully outclassed by the Greenpeace defense attorney/attorneys.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this case was appealed.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:16:31 +0000

Jury selection ain’t what it used to be.

Give the lawyers a bit more time and we will be paying the vandals for their services soon.