Bummer: German Court Throws Out Peruvian Farmer’s Climate (scam) Suit

I’m pretty sure Peru would whither into a 3rd world nation without fossil fuels bringing tourists and goods, as well as sending goods to the rest of the world

Court throws out Peruvian farmer’s climate lawsuit against energy giant

A German court ruled Wednesday that one of the country’s largest energy giants is not liable for alleged harm caused by climate change in Peru, throwing out a decade-long claim by a farmer who says his mountainside home in the Andes could be destroyed by melted glacier ice.

The court found that RWE, the utility firm, was not obliged to contribute to the costs of protecting Huaraz, a city of some 120,000 people in the foothills of the Andes, from the risk of catastrophic flooding made more likely by climate change. The case was brought by one of its residents, farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya.

“More likely”. What facts using the Scientific Method support that, and can it be positively linked to Mankind?

The judgment is a blow for climate campaigners who had sought to use the German court system to establish a legal precedent for making energy firms liable for the costs of mitigating the impact of climate change globally.

RWE, which has never operated in Peru, argued that individual emitters could not be held responsible for “universally rooted” processes like climate change. In a statement Wednesday, the energy firm welcomed the ruling, which found the risk of flooding to Luciano Lliuya’s property was too low to merit damages. RWE said that if granted, the claim would have had “unforeseeable consequences for Germany as an industrial location, because ultimately claims could be asserted against any German company for damage caused by climate change anywhere in the world.”

It’s all a shakedown, and, too bad the court didn’t specifically rule with that in mind.

In their case, Luciano Lliuya’s attorneys cited an analysis that found RWE’s mines and power stations were responsible for 0.47 percent of all emissions produced by people in the industrial era. As a result, they claimed that the energy firm was liable to pay about $20,000 toward the building of a protective drainage system for Huaraz, about 0.47 percent of its projected total cost.

The city is at risk of catastrophic flooding from Lake Palcacocha, a pool of melted glacier water that has swelled in recent decades as the nearby Palcaraju glacier melts. According to an attribution study published in the journal Nature Geoscience in 2021, the melting of the glacier would be virtually impossible in a world without climate change.

How big was the glacier during previous Holocene warm periods?

At any moment, the lake could burst its banks and send a deluge of nearly 2 million cubic meters of water toward Huaraz below. About 50,000 people live on the banks of the Quilcay River, a high-hazard zone where the flood could be strong enough to sweep away small brick and adobe homes. In 1941, a glacial lake outburst flood killed one-third of the city’s population.

“At any moment.” In other words they do not know. And 1941, when CO2 was below the “safe” level of 350ppm? It’s all a shakedown. And, I wonder if a bunch of climate scam lawyers/groups put him up to this.

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