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Originally Posted by Hobjob  David Adam and Afua Hirsch
The Guardian, Tuesday December 9 2008
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People affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the oil and power companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert has said.
Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, said a breakthrough that allows scientists to judge the role man-made climate change played in extreme weather events could see a rush to the courts over the next decade.
He said: "We are starting to get to the point that when an adverse weather event occurs we can quantify how much more likely it was made by human activity. And people adversely affected by climate change today are in a position to document and quantify their losses. This is going to be hugely important."
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Welll........... lets have a think then - what else is affecting us adversely and when I've totted up all the things I think are affecting me adversely shall I look around for who to sue??
I bet solicitors and law folk around the world are rubbing their hands together with glee...........
I can see the adverts now - that chap off the Bill ........ 'Have you been adversely affected by a thunderstorm, flood, cataclysm, downpour of frogs, tide of blood, hailstones the size of footballs .............'
Oh for goodness sake ............. get me out of here.............
Pauline