Children win right to sue US government for climate change inaction, by Joanne Nova.

You may not have realized we have the right to a perfect climate. A bunch of kids age 8 to 19 have won the right to take the US government to trial for not protecting the atmosphere. It’s being called the “biggest case on the planet”.

Eric Holthaus tweeted: “Federal judge: The right to a stable climate is so fundamental, it predates the Constitution. Huge, huge victory”

To which Ryan Maue dryly replied: “Right to a stable climate predates Constitution?” If only the authors of the Magna Carta could have prevented the Little Ice Age.

If only. In dismissing the dismissal the plaintiffs haven’t proven anything at all except that they have the right to waste a lot of time and money pursuing the idea that humans not only can control the climate, but they should’ve done so, at any cost, and that these children would be better off in a colder world with lower crop yields. I can see about twenty ways this case can die in a ditch. Bring on discovery.