Really, they did. Because maybe then Scalia will finally understand that global warming is happening right f**ing now while he dithers:
SUPREME COURT Justice Antonin Scalia needs to go duck hunting. It is the only way for him to understand global warming.
He made that clear in oral arguments this week on whether states can sue the Environmental Protection Agency over the agency’s refusal — with the backing of the White House and the auto industry — to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gases of global warming. Just moments after James Milkey, Massachusetts assistant attorney general, opened his statement on how the state “will be hit particularly hard” by rising oceans, Scalia pounced on him with: “I thought that the standing requires imminent harm. If you haven’t been harmed already, you have to show the harm is imminent. Is this harm imminent?”
Milkey responded, “It is, your honor. We have shown that the sea levels are already occurring from the current amounts of greenhouse gases in the air, and that means it is only going to get worse as the . . .”
Scalia interrupted again with, “When? I mean, when is the predicted cataclysm?”
If Scalia checks out his hunting grounds, he might see the cataclysm more clearly. […]
Louisiana duck hunters are among the many folks feeling the consequences of inaction on global warming. In Louisiana, a 2005 Shreveport Times story quoted duck hunters who said their hunting has gotten much worse in the last several years. The story was written following a National Wildlife Federation report warning that a warmer planet would mean traditional duck breeding grounds in North America’s prairies could dry up and traditional wintering wetlands in the South could flood.
In South Carolina, The State newspaper last year did a feature on the controversial practice of “canned” duck hunts of farm-raised mallards. Without the farmed mallards, there would be virtually no duck hunting in the state. The newspaper reported that the wintering wild population of the bird has dropped in the last half-century from 200,000 to 3,000.
In Arkansas, the winter duck population has shrunk in the last half century from a million to half a million. Last year, drought dropped the population to 160,000. […]
There is no sign this is going to get better without action. In the current issue of the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, University of Texas researcher Camille Parmesan found in a review of 866 peer-reviewed papers that wildlife habitats are changing, with already a “disproportionate number of population extinctions documented along southern and low-elevation range edges in response to recent climate warming.”
Not that it matters to Scalia, but maybe some of his fellow Republican hunters who can’t afford to go on canned hunts with farm raised birds might start to get the message. Your rifles and shotguns aren’t going to be much fun when there’s nothing left to shoot out there but one another.