** Which of course means that this lawsuit is a winner.

the suit also accuses eight of the firms (American Electric Power, BP America, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, and Southern Company) of conspiring to cover up the threat of man-made climate change. … This second charge arguably eliminates the need for a judge to determine how much greenhouse-gas production—from refining fossil fuel and burning it to produce energy—is acceptable. “You’re not asking the court to evaluate the reasonableness of the conduct,” Berman says. “You’re asking a court to evaluate if somebody conspired to lie.” Monetary damages to Kivalina need not be sourced exclusively to the defendants’ emissions; they would derive from bad-faith efforts to prevent the enactment of public measures that might have slowed the warming.

Well what a surprise. The purpose of the lawsuit is not an attempt to address the problem of global warming but to make large amounts of money for the lawyers. Who would of thought that? If we think $4.00 a gallon gas is expensive now, just wait until the price jumps to $20 a gallon to pay all of the judgments against the oil companies.