Karen Zraick, The New York Times; Climate Change Is Erased From a Manual for Federal Judges
After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
"In a new attack on the science of climate change, a federal agency has stripped a chapter on global warming from a manual written to help judges understand important scientific questions they may face in their courtrooms.
The chapter was deleted after a group of Republican state attorneys general complained about it to the Federal Judicial Center, a government agency that provides resources to judges. In recent years, judges in the United States have had to contend with a widening array of cases related to climate change, putting jurists in the position of having to understand the complexities of the science and research behind its causes and effects.
Late last week, the director of the Federal Judicial Center, Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, wrote a letter to one of the attorneys generalto say that the chapter on climate change had been removed from its digital version of the manual."
