From San Francisco. I can't believe this. We actually have a fairly reasoned ruling from a Clinton-appointed federal judge in California. This happened yesterday. "A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world's six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global warming. In its lawsuit filed last year, California blamed the auto industry for millions of dollars it expects to spend on repairing damage from global-warming-induced floods and other natural disasters. But District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco handed California Attorney General Jerry Brown's environmental crusade a stinging rebuke when he ruled that it was impossible to determine to what extent automakers are responsible for global-warming damages in California. Many culprits, including other industries and even natural sources, are responsible for emitting carbon dioxide," the judge said. He "also ruled that keeping the lawsuit alive would threaten the country's foreign policy position." Amazing! A Clinton appointee! San Francisco! Judge "Jenkins said it's up to lawmakers, rather than judges, to determine how responsible automakers are for global-warming problems."

Can you believe this? How did this guy sneak through the cracks there? Wait 'til the Clinton people hear about this! This is exactly opposite of what judges appointed by liberals are supposed to do! They are supposed to assume that they, as judges, are to determine the responsibility of everybody to be blamed for whatever liberals want them blamed for. The state sued Chrysler, Ford, GM, and the US subsidiaries of Honda, Nissan, and Toyota. "Michigan's attorney general also filed court papers backing the automakers, making many of the same arguments that Jenkins ultimately adopted on Friday. Michigan said its economy would be severely crippled if automakers were forced to pay damages to California for contributing to global warming. Michigan said such policy decisions should be left for federal lawmakers." Well, that's not much better, but at least it's a delay.

link