A Quiet Rewrite That Could Shape a Thousand Climate Cases

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A Quiet Rewrite That Could Shape a Thousand Climate Cases
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By Jeff ReynoldsKevin Mooney

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.

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

They did it through a handbook.
 
The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) jointly publish the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. 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.

The manual is that guidance, and the fourth edition has just been released.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/06/a-quiet-rewrite-that-could-shape-a-thousand-climate-cases/

[Smokin Joe]

This is one data point, but exposes a technique the Left has been using right in front of our faces.
Establish yourself as 'the expert' on any given topic.
'Educate' everyone from the legislatures to judges to schoolkids to the public with your viewpoint.
Publish in peer reviewed journals, preferably being in charge of the peer review process itself.
Claim to be "The Science^TM".
Be 'firstest with the mostest', and decry any opposition as less knowledgeable, incorrect, or politically biased through ideology or compensation.
Advance your agenda, preferably using tons of grant money and donations.

From the SPLC to Climate Change (formerly known as "Global Warming") to COVID and even as far back as AIDS/HIV, it has been the same playbook.