A lawsuit for the Philippines that has a reputation for corruption. What could possibly go wrong?

A group of more than 100 Filipinos are suing British oil-and-gas giant Shell, claiming that its historical contribution to climate change from fossil-fuel production was a significant factor in causing a supertyphoon that battered the country four years ago.

The storm, which hit the Philippines in December 2021, caused the deaths of more than 400 people and nearly $1 billion in damage. Alongside the lives lost, hundreds of thousands were made homeless and lost their livelihoods.

“We worked hard all our life, we had built our house and in just a few hours it was gone,” said Trixy Elle, who survived the typhoon and is one of the claimants in the case. Elle said she had lost her home and was no longer able to fish, her primary source of income, as her boat was destroyed during the storm. “You feel hopeless and helpless, you have nothing,” she said, adding that she had to take out large loans to rebuild her house and livelihood.

The civil action is being supported by a number of climate cult organizations, such as Greenpeace and and Friends of the Earth, under Philippine tort law in the UK courts, leveraging Shell’s UK headquarters. The lawsuit alleges that Shell generated 2% of worldwide fossil fuel emissions, which have purportedly fueled man-made climate change as the cause of last year’s typhoon.

This is nothing more than an effort to get a legal decision climate cult groups can weaponize against fossil fuel production and they will obviously base their tort on pseudo-scientific research. Basically, the attorneys in this lawsuit accuse Shell Oil of being responsible for the latest typhoon, despite the fact that Filipinos have experienced many typhoons for hundreds of years.