The Supreme Court has said it requires Congress to speak clearly in the interest of democratic accountability. In the climate decision, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the people’s elected representatives should make decisions where the consequences are enormous.
“A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body,” he wrote.
But the net effect of that approach was to enhance the Supreme Court’s own authority.
“They’re saying that they’re doing it for democracy purposes, but the fact is that they’re increasing their own power,” Professor Lazarus said.
Were democracy working, Professor Huber said, there would be new federal legislation to address the threat to the planet.
“If we had a Congress that at all reflected what the median American voter wanted,” he said, “we’d have relatively aggressive climate action.”
Climate change (due to CO2 emissions), is it falsifiable? — Agent Smith
What predictions have been made by climate scientists in re climate change? — Agent Smith
"Extreme weather" is just too vague for me and others too I presume. — Agent Smith
This is the same question you asked with respect to the theory of evolution yesterday. Are you not aware of falsefiable predictions or do you think there aren't any? — Benkei
Oh! And where are the experiments? — Agent Smith
The only prediction I'm aware of that climate change makes is extreme weather and, as far as I can tell, that's too vague; almost as if they had an astronomer astrologer on the team. Edify me/us please! — Agent Smith
That's not a requirement. We know stars go supernova and haven't tested that under laboratory conditions. Maybe Chalmers' "What is this thing called science?" is a good read for you. — Benkei
lazy — Benkei
Google is your friend. I'm here for discussion not to educate you on things that can easily be found online. — Benkei
The only prediction climate scientists have made is extreme weather, — Agent Smith
The temperature data fits the climate change hypothesis alright, but what/where are the other hypotheses? — Agent Smith
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