Climate Change Lawsuit

About the Lawsuit

Dr. James Hansen and his granddaughter explain the impending danger continued use of fossil fuels will have to world of his granddaughter.

In 2015, twenty-one youth from across the United States, age 8 to 19, filed a landmark constitutional climate change lawsuit against the federal government in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Also acting as a Plaintiff is world-renowned climate scientist Dr. James E. Hansen, serving as guardian for future generations and his granddaughter. Their complaint asserts that, in causing climate change, the federal government has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, property, as well as failed to protect essential public trust resources.  

A More Detail Explantion: Hell will Break Loose - Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms

Published on 17 Sep 2016

The main point that I want to make concerns the threat of irreparable harm, which I feel we have not communicated well enough to people who most need to know, the public and policymakers. I’m not sure how we can do that better, but I comment on it at the end of this transcript. 

In response to the study outlined here, NASA launched a new operation to assess ice melt, OMG (Ocean Melting Greenland). https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov

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Read the study:

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous

http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/376...

Read the full transcript here: http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/03/2...http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/03/2...