{"id":449200,"date":"2026-06-08T01:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=449200"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:40:30","slug":"a-quiet-rewrite-that-could-shape-a-thousand-climate-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=449200","title":{"rendered":"A Quiet Rewrite That Could Shape a Thousand Climate Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jeff Reynolds<\/a>Kevin Mooney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An under-the-radar legal switcheroo should concern every business leader, investor, and taxpayer in America. Now, 23 state attorneys general have taken notice and sent a letter  to the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts   that bolsters the efforts of three eminent scientists who sounded the alarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate activists have found a way to get their preferred evidence standards into the hands of roughly 6,000 federal and state judges\u2014before those judges hear more than 1,000 pending climate cases that could reshape the American economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did it through a handbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) jointly publish the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence<\/em>.<\/a> Likely very few Americans realize Congress established the FJC in 1967 as the research and education arm of the federal courts and made the Chief Justice of the U.S. its chair. For decades, the FJC collaborated with the NAS to give judges objective, apolitical guidance on how to evaluate scientific claims in the courtroom. The motivation is obvious, if often taken for granted by the American public: give judges the tools and standards to admit scientific evidence that is objectively true, and reject quackery and scientifically invalid hypotheses that would bias the judicial proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The manual is that guidance, and the fourth edition has just been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three eminent scientists who\u2019ve read the manual immediately started ringing alarm bells. According to Richard Lindzen of MIT, William Happer of Princeton, and Steven Koonin of Stanford\u2019s Hoover Institution, its new chapter on \u201cHow Science Works\u201d has a problem. In an April 1 letter<\/a> to Chief Justice John Roberts, the three scientists argue that the chapter\u2014which balloons from 18 pages in the prior edition to 65\u2014quietly swaps out the scientific method for something inherently more political: \u201cscientific consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In so doing, the new version flies in the face of Supreme Court precedent that has shaped the legal evaluation of scientific evidence since 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That distinction matters more than it sounds. The scientific method is a familiar process: form a hypothesis, design an experiment that could prove it wrong, and let the data speak. A claim that cannot in principle be falsified isn\u2019t science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consensus, by contrast, is a survey of opinion. It can reflect rigorous work, or it can reflect fashion, funding pressure, or institutional inertia. The two are not interchangeable. The Supreme Court has already said so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals<\/em><\/a> (1993), the Supreme Court ruled that the scientific method must govern scientific evidence. Is the theory testable? Has it been tested? Is there a known error rate? Has it been subjected to peer review? Daubert<\/em> marked a deliberate move away from consensus and toward method. The scientists writing to Roberts argue that the new chapter walks that move back\u2014instructing judges to admit evidence on precisely the grounds Daubert<\/em> rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daubert<\/em> standard, as it became known, guided judges on what scientific evidence to allow based on academic method, not popularity. Lindzen, Happer, and Koonin argue that the rewritten chapter reverses that standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The timing could not be more consequential. The letter from the scientists points out that more than 1,000 climate-related cases are now working through state and federal courts, many pursuing damages from energy producers under theories that require attributing specific harms to specific emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EPA is simultaneously moving to reconsider its 2009 \u201cendangerment finding\u201d\u2014the Obama-era rule declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, the regulatory linchpin that has justified sweeping federal climate policy ever since. Challenges to that finding have already begun working their way through the courts. The endangerment finding was itself the result of a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, Massachusetts v EPA<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>The Obama EPA then interpreted that ruling to give them wide latitude to create new rules the defining statute didn\u2019t explicitly permit.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How judges evaluate scientific evidence in these cases carries stakes that measure, without exaggeration, in the trillions of dollars\u2014in compliance costs, regulations, energy prices, permitting timelines, and the wider investment climate. For those making capital allocation decisions today, the question of whether courts will apply Daubert<\/em>\u2018s methodological standard or a softer consensus test is a material variable, not an abstraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second Supreme Court decision makes the manual\u2019s influence even larger. Last year\u2019s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo<\/em><\/a> overturned Chevron<\/em> deference, ending four decades of practice in which judges deferred to federal agencies\u2019 interpretations of ambiguous statutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judges must now read the law themselves. That shift places more weight on the scientific record courts independently assemble\u2014and on the manual that shapes how they read it. A handbook that quietly rehabilitates \u201cwidespread acceptance\u201d as a standard achieves through evidentiary back channels what Loper Bright<\/em> foreclosed through statutory ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reasonable scientists disagree about how much weight consensus should carry, and the climate field in particular has long blurred the line between empirical findings and policy preferences. But a manual distributed to thousands of judges is not the place to take a side in that argument. The manual should give judges the cleanest possible account of how to tell rigorous work from advocacy dressed up in consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earlier 18-page version, by the scientists\u2019 account, did that. Lindzen, Happer, and Koonin simply ask for it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Justice John Roberts has a straightforward option. As chair of the FJC, he can direct the center to restore the previous chapter, or commission a new one written tightly around the methodology Daubert<\/em> requires. It is a simple act of housekeeping to insist that a handbook for judges reflect the Court\u2019s own evidence standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts has the institutional lever to correct course. By directing the FJC to revert to the earlier, concise, and methodologically sound chapter, he can reaffirm that American jurisprudence rests on evidence tested by the scientific method, not agenda-driven narratives. The result would support lower energy costs, greater consumer choice, and economic growth unburdened by regulations lacking rigorous scientific foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happer, Lindzen, and Koonin have done a public service by bringing this to the attention of the chief justice. Chief Justice Roberts should heed it. The integrity of the courts and the prosperity of the American people depend on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Reynolds is the Senior Editor for Restoration News. He specializes in energy and science policy, along with the political influence of dark money. He is the author of the 2019 book on dark money, <\/em>Behind the Curtain<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Mooney is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News, specializing in energy policy, environmentalist groups, and dark money. He is the author of the new book, <\/em>Climate Porn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The timing could not be more consequential. 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