"The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is a document used by judges when they have to oversee cases involving complex scientific matters. The climate science chapter has now been deleted, so they'll be on their own with climate-related cases. This move came after a group of Republican state attorneys wrote a letter to complain about the chapter on climate change."
"The language in the document, which was authored by researchers from Columbia University, suggests that climate change is driven by the actions of humans. This was a no-go to those state attorneys, despite being an established fact. "Nothing is 'independent' or 'impartial' in issuing a document on behalf of America's judges declaring that only one preferred view is 'within the boundaries of scientifically sound knowledge,'" the letter states."
A US judicial body revised the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence by deleting its climate science chapter. The chapter, authored by researchers from Columbia University, attributed climate change to human actions and labeled the IPCC an authoritative science body. A group of Republican state attorneys wrote a letter objecting to those positions and demanded the entire chapter be removed rather than revised. The removal leaves judges without that specific guidance when overseeing climate-related cases. The manual's introduction by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan still references the now-deleted chapter.
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