Monday, June 25, 2007
TEXANS KNOW ABOUT COWS, DON'T THEY?
Is global warming going to be the newest mass tort? One obscenely successful Texan plaintiffs' attorney, Stephen D. Susman, thinks so:
And the cows emitting ... well ... you know what. That's where the really big money is.
“Melting glaciers isn’t going to get that much going, but wait until the first big ski area closes because it has no snow,” said Susman, who teaches a climate-change litigation course at Houston Law. “Or wait until portions of lower Manhattan and San Francisco are under water.”Susman warns "[y]ou're going to see some really serious exposure on the part of companies that are emitting CO2."
And the cows emitting ... well ... you know what. That's where the really big money is.