A victory for cloud cuckoo land thinking. The court has in effect granted a disputed hypothesis the status of truth, based on its assumption that ’emissions’ are driving changes in the climate. Once courts can pick sides in scientific debates, where does that lead?
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A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights, reports BBC News.
The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change.
The court said Switzerland’s efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate.
It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.
Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg joined activists celebrating at the court in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
“We still can’t really believe it. We keep asking our lawyers, ‘is that right?’ Rosemarie Wydler-Walti, one of the leaders of the Swiss women, told Reuters news agency. “And they tell us it’s the most you could have had. The biggest victory possible.”
The ruling is binding and can trickle down to influence the law in 46 countries in Europe including the UK.
The Court ruled that Switzerland had “failed to comply with its duties under the Convention concerning climate change” and that it had violated the right to respect for private and family life.
It also found that “there had been critical gaps” in the country’s policies to tackle climate change including failing to quantify reductions in greenhouse gases – those gases that warm Earth’s atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas. [Talkshop comment – unproven assertion].
The Swiss women, called KlimaSeniorinnen or Senior Women for Climate Protection, argued that they cannot leave their homes and suffer health attacks during heatwaves in Switzerland.
On Tuesday data showed that last month was the world’s warmest March on record, meaning the temperature records have broken ten months in a row.
More than 2,000 women are in the KlimaSeniorinnen group. They launched the case nine years ago, calling for better protection of women’s health in relation to climate change.
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Member of the KlimaSeniorinnen Elisabeth Stern, 76, told BBC News that she has seen how the climate in Switzerland has changed since she was a child growing up on a farm.
Full report here.
Tallbloke's Talkshop 
Jail Swiss government, and all Swiss voters.
I wonder if there has ever been a judge with a science qualification?
I can hazard a guess at the expert opinion they sought.
An interesting response from Judith Curry.
https://judithcurry.com/2024/04/09/there-is-no-human-right-to-a-safe-or-stable-climate/#more-31138
Maybe it’s true after all. The law is an ass!
Interesting! A court that believes that the laws of nature are within its jurisdiction and can judge whatever. By this, it has lost all its credibility and turned into a kangaroo court …
Nothing new there. SasjaL.
The European Union at one point attempted to legislate that a kettle consuming one kilowatt of electricity should achieve over 100% heating efficiency, their reasoning being that it was within their legislative remit to rewrite the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Such people truly are that abysmally stupid and pig ignorant with it.
Switzerland not cold enough 😂
What I’ve seen recent years, pigs are way brighter than the majority occupying the European Quarters in Brussels … The basic concept of LoT is not that difficult to understand.
People far more vulnerable to cold weather than warm, complaining there’s less cold weather now…
FFFS Its like a Macbeth re run on climate. Featuring the witches of Zurich…. supported by the court of the Inquisition
Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, forests burn and oceans bubble.
Burn them?
The enlightenment is over, the elites have reversed power management to mediaeval religious culture, even if the economies are not there yet.
Thinks….. need photo of Antonio Gutless to make into a Witch.
Yessss! Heartily agree. Hoooooh – but I’m in Scotland and that could be taken as H8 88888888 peach.
I’m back …. and this is in the Post. WE talk of / about the Mafia, etc etc: But WHAT has the German speaking part of Europe got to do with everything. Pulling strings in USA ? from our Agric perspective : the Machinery Manufacturers as per a local discussion here today. AGCO ‘was a failed US Brand’ – (at least over here) yet found resources in the City to take out our British Massey-Ferguson to be replanted in France, took over an innovative but failing German Brand “Fendt”, incorporated Finland’s SISU Engines in deference to Massey’s Perkins of Peterborough being sold out to CAT, and acquiring another Scandinavian Brand “Valmet” whilst in an earlier life, the German DEUTZ (KHD ) was a part of the embryonic Agco before some European Deals to shed Deutz ( Deutz-Fahr) which again got split up and sold off fragmented to various others, Deutz tractors now part of the Italian Same Group ( SDF now) ( But the ENGINE Dept was not )
So what I am getting at is the number of stories in that Rag ( yes – German Agric is heavily targeted with the CO2 propaganda – and they are lapping it up ) Translated headlines :
Large companies are clearly missing their 2030 climate targets
“Plant protection future program”
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Climate change
March tenth month in a row with record heat
Since weather records began, no March has been as hot as the last. Globally, the average temperature was 0.73°C above the average from 1991 to 2020. More ›
Frankly, I am just so glad we are OUT of Europe, but get triggered by the thought of UK Gov & Politics: Just look at this from our MSP Kate ( lovely Kate ! - some sarc) ): Highland MSP seeks urgent clarification over woodburning stove ban in new-build properties Just some more INSIDIOUS stuff from our non indigenous Goons in control.
Now would those auld Wifies be partial to a nice new EV with leather seats, perhaps ? See this tonight or online (Opera translated
Illegal leather – How German car manufacturers are threatening the rainforest
March 26, 2024 ∙ Story ∙ ARD
UT
Notice
A film by Jan-Philipp Scholz, Annkathrin Weis and Johannes Meier
What do the high-quality leather seats of German luxury cars have to do with deforestation in the Amazon? More than you might believe. The connection is real and pressing.
Must go – getting triggered again.
About 1 in 6 of residents in the desert state of Arizona, USA is over 65.
https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/arizona-population-by-age/
No sign of a stampede to the courts for *climate justice* so far. Safe to say their climate is somewhat warmer than that of Switzerland 😎
I don’t want to get banned so I’ll not write what is in my mind about these out of control “judges”.
As Oldbrew shows for Arizona, literally billions of people live in places where its far hotter than Zurich and where its always been far hotter than Zurich without being at extra risk. It is extremely likely that humans evolved in hot equatorial East Africa. Moreover you could make a pretty good case that these women have only reached 70 because of fossil fuels and the progress and wealth they have allowed.
Well said…. and how many Auld Birds flock to the Beaches in the Med, etc.
Jings man, There are many parts of CH which have an almost MED climate – at least MUCH HOTTER than the Northern Facing Alpine slopes, etc. Just wifies with nothing else to do and looking for a cause d’etre. “Getting their names in the History books of stupidity”
Switzerland ‘should quit European Court of Human Rights over climate ruling’ – Sat, 13 April 2024
Switzerland must quit the European Court of Human Rights to save it from the malign influence of foreign judges, the vice president of the country’s biggest party has said.
Céline Amaudruz warned that the Swiss population was the boss, not a court in Strasbourg.
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“People in favour of the court have always said we lose nothing with it. This situation proves what we have always said, we lose everything with a foreign court.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/switzerland-quit-european-court-human-140000504.html
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Sunak criticises ‘complete overreach’ of ‘illegitimate’ ECHR ruling
Downing Street’s intervention over court’s decision to make net zero a human right comes ahead of Rwanda votes
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The ruling is binding to states that are signatories to the convention, like the UK, and will trickle down to influence the law in 46 countries in Europe, including Britain.
It means individuals and groups could sue for a breach of their human rights if the UK Government fails to meet its net zero or environmental targets.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/13/rishi-sunak-criticises-echr-illegitimate-ruling-net-zero/
The Telegraph notes: A British judge, Tim Eicke, issued the sole dissent, writing: “I fear that in this judgment the majority has gone beyond what it is legitimate and permissible for this court to do, and unfortunately, in doing so, may well have achieved exactly the opposite effect to what was intended”.
At least the Brit made sense 👍🏽
Courts and government…
Swiss climate policy in spotlight after court ruling – APRIL 15, 2024
Switzerland, known for pristine countryside and snow-capped peaks, is facing scrutiny of its environmental policies after becoming the first country faulted by an international court for failing to do enough against climate change.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-swiss-climate-policy-spotlight-court.html
failing to do enough against climate change = failing to do the impossible