Courtroom Climate: Global warming suits from children

grade school-aged children are increasingly appearing as plaintiffs in lawsuits involving global warming.

Democrat Markey says massive ice break makes case for climate change action - The Hill's E2-Wire

A top Democrat says a massive ice chunk that broke free from Greenland shows that policymakers must take much stronger action to battle global warming.

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), in a statement Wednesday, cited the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” to call for climate action and take a shot at presumptive GOP White House nominee Mitt Romney.

“Batman may be rising in theaters, but icebergs and heat records are falling across the globe as our folly of global-warming inaction is finally coming back to haunt us,” said Markey, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee.

“When Republicans like Mitt Romney reject the science surrounding climate change, and block the solutions to this grave challenge, they become complicit in the acceleration and intensification of extreme weather events around the world and here in America,” added Markey.
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“We must take action to reduce the carbon pollution that is warming our planet, melting our ice caps and wreaking havoc with our weather. If we do not, we will go down as the most shortsighted generation in history,” Markey said Wednesday.

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