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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFederal court will hold first-ever hearing on climate change science
Federal court will hold first-ever hearing on climate change science
By Stuart Leavenworth
March 07, 2018 05:00 AM
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered parties in a landmark global warming lawsuit to hold what could be the first-ever U.S. court hearing on the science of climate change.
The proceeding, scheduled for March 21 by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, will feature lawyers for Exxon, BP, Chevron and other oil companies pitted against those for San Francisco and Oakland California cities that have accused fossil fuel interests of covering up their role in contributing to global warming.
This will be the closest that we have seen to a trial on climate science in the United States, to date, said Michael Burger, a lawyer who heads the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.
Experts on both sides say Alsups call for a climate change tutorial is unlike anything theyve heard of before.
I dont know of any judge who has asked for a tutorial like this, said Steven E. Koonin, a physicist and former Energy Department undersecretary known for his contrarian views on global warming research. I think it is a great idea. Anybody having to make a decision about climate science needs to understand the full spectrum of what we know and what we dont know.
In the five-hour hearing, both the cities and the oil companies will have a chance to present Alsup with their views on the history of climate change science, and the most important recent findings in the field.
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Federal court will hold first-ever hearing on climate change science (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2018
OP
The legacy energy companies are no doubt on the phone to Fox to get them the one contrarian
Fred Sanders
Mar 2018
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. The legacy energy companies are no doubt on the phone to Fox to get them the one contrarian
in a 100 willing to defend their idiocy under oath in court and just not in a Fox studio.
malaise
(268,987 posts)2. Great news
Rec for visibility
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)3. Good for CA.
Another reason for Sessions and the Fucking Moron to hate (and punish) our state.