Climate chaos claims continue causing consternation

Anyone who thought "manmade climate cataclysm" rhetoric couldn't possibly exceed Obama era levels should read the complaint filed in the "public nuisance" lawsuit that's being argued before Federal District Court Judge William Alsup in a California courtroom: Oakland v BP and other oil companies. The allegations read at times like they were written by a Monty Python comedy team and a couple of first year law students. Defendant companies "conspired" to produce dangerous fuels, the complaint asserts, and "followed the Big Tobacco playbook" to promote their use, while paying "denialist front groups" to question "established" climate science, "downplay" the "unprecedented" risks of manmade global warming, and launch "unfounded attacks on the integrity" of leading "consensus" scientists.