Co-authors of manual for US judges call climate science chapter's removal 'troubling'
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Climate Science Chapter Removal Sparks Judicial DebateTwenty-eight co-authors condemn the Federal Judicial Center for excising climate content amid political pressures.
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- Most contributors to the federal judiciary’s scientific evidence manual denounced the Federal Judicial Center’s removal of the climate change chapter.
- The chapter was cut following demands from Republican state attorneys general who viewed it as biased in ongoing climate litigation.
- Authored by Columbia Law School experts, the chapter provided judges with a rigorously vetted scientific foundation.
- Since 1994, the manual has been referenced by over 1,300 judges and is recognized for its impartiality in scientific assessments.
The integrity of the process by which judges evaluate scientific evidence should not be subject to political interference or veto.— The co-authors of the Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (in their open letter criticizing the climate chapter's removal).
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systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge, and the set of knowledge produced by this system
statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods
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