When the ship is going down, you might as well sue the captain who ran us into the iceberg:
Have you noticed all those terrible storms that we’ve started to encounter as a result of warmer oceans? And all those rising sea levels that threaten the existence of major cities around the globe? And just how generally fucked we all may be as a result of global warming?
Well, law firms have, too. They’re expecting that as more lives are ruined the way they were ruined in New Orleans, and as more information comes out pointing to Big Energy’s full awareness of the dangers presented by their CO2 emissions, there’ll be some beaucoup-bucks lawsuitin’ ahead.
There’s gold in them rising sea-levels, apparently. Texas law firms — dare we call it double-dipping if they are also working for the energy industry that owns the mess? — are building out climate change practice groups.