In any event, it was up to the crack reporters and editors at the once respectable Associated Press to come up with what is perhaps the most asinine sentence ever written about this issue.

“The ruling following a first-of-its-kind trial in the U.S.,” the AP reported, “adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.”

“A government duty to protect citizens from climate change”?

Think about that for a minute.

[Would that they would have thought about it at all. One could argue that government has some duty to help citizens deal with specific and dangerous weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes. We have built advance warning systems to help save lives, and those work. But the idea that government has a role in protecting us from “climate” is absurd. What’s next — protecting us from mitosis and meiosis? How about protecting us from gravity, which kills a lot more people than “climate change”? This planet’s climate has continuously changed since the planet formed, and no government can control it or protect against it. — Ed]