Thank you, national media (here) for outing this lady who would like to make up laws to hold the US government responsible for the entire earth’s atmosphere. Anything to make a buck, I guess.

Here’s her thesis from the Corvallis Gazette last week:

EUGENE — University of Oregon law professor Mary Wood is tired of waiting for
government officials to take action on global warming. So she’s devised a new
legal tool to hurry them up.Drawing on her background in both natural resources
and property law, Wood has developed a theory that claims the atmosphere is an
asset that belongs to all but is held in trust by the government. The government
has a legal obligation to protect that trust from harm, she argues, just as
financial managers have a legal obligation to protect the monetary assets in
their care.

But you and know what’s really going on here (story here):

We’ll take the last one first: Congress hasn’t written any statutes on
atmospheric obligation because, one, there has been no compelling reason to do
so, and, two, Congress simply does not have the constitutional authorization to
get involved in such matters. Wood is a lawyer; she should know that.
As for
that unfolding catastrophe, the only people who are seeing it are those whose
political goals rely on there being one and who have eagerly and gullibly bought
into the man-made global warming theory.
If Wood can find judges who will take her seriously, expect a plague of freewheeling lawsuits filed to force the government to shut down construction of new coal-fired power plants and airport expansions, limit motorized recreation and require the use of renewable energy, to name a few backward-looking thoughts that are filling her mind.