Many legal policy experts, including the Washington Legal Foundation, have long insisted that the debate over theeffectsof carbon emissions on the rise in global temperature is strictly a political question that should not be decided in the courts.
When theeffects are calculated in a standard climate model, the result is a reduction in average temperatureof 0.00005oC (one twenty-thousandth of a degree Celsius, or one ten-thousandth of a degree Fahrenheit).