Can Butterflies Cause Tornadoes?

        Trevor Burrus (CATO) in More on AEP v. Connecticut: Sue the Butterflies of Regulate Them? makes the point that 'Taking the [pseudo]scientists at their word, we’d have to include at least every car owner, every coal power plant, every natural gas power plant, every cement producer, every forester, and the fabled effects of bovine flatulence. And not just every one of these in America, but every one in the world. The scope of this case and the numerous trade-offs involved make it utterly inappropriate for judicial resolution.

         The supposed link between the power companies’ emissions and the alleged global warming harms resembles a Rube Goldberg device of conjectures that stretches back millions of years.'

         Of course, there are several fallacious arguments being advanced by the States in their litigation against power companies—first of all, the false claims being advanced by the Global Warmists are preposterous when viewed from a long-term,  paleo-climate, point of view.  If this argument was correct then human bonfires caused the last ice age to recede—when in fact the earth has cycled many times between warm and cold periods.  The Climategate revelations should cause all but the most partisan Global Warmists to pause and examine the climate data falsifications, omissions and suppressions associated with the pseudo-science of Global Warming.

         Secondly, to use the courts to settle a disputable causal claim will create a morass of law suits in which no final scientific facts can be mustered to support arguments, therefore resulting in a tangle of conflicting settlements beyond any of our current regulatory or legal complexities.  

         Lastly, if everything causes everything else, then nothing causes everything as well, and all theories become extinct—science becomes meaningless epitaphs or at best empty shibboleths—in other words, science becomes a partisan expression of beliefs, the new Religion.  By the way, what are Global Warmists after—Global Icing?