CLW has focused on the climate litigation complex’s recent project—made to order by and for the plaintiff’s bar—of attribution science. You can find the various entries here.
Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. has a devastating expose’ of the enterprise, specifically the federal leviathan’s contributions to the climate industry, titled “Attribution Stealth Advocacy at the NAS.”
Yes, these are the people you will soon read are “TRUMP’S OWN CLIMATE SCIENTISTS!!!” condemning his doing what he just convinced a majority of the electorate ought to be done.
It gets worse. As Pielke, Jr. concludes:
Given all this, it would be fair to ask whether the NAS Attribution committee is about science advice at all, or instead, a not-so-subtle form of institutionalized stealth advocacy in support of climate litigation. Has the integrity of the nation’s leading institution of science advice been compromised? That couldn’t be the case, could it?
The first public meeting of the NAS Attribution committee will take place a few weeks from now. On that agenda is a litigator from Sher Edling, LLC [sic], a firm that is litigating almost two dozen climate cases that depend up claims of extreme event attribution.6 Somehow, that litigator’s role as a counsel-of-record in these various lawsuits was left off of the NAS public meeting agenda.
Again, that’s the very same litigator who let the cat out of the bag in a talk at UCLA Law School posted to YouTube that he ordered the “attribution” Code Red.
Read it and take these machinations into account as we await 1) the recruited progressive state AGs and municipalities who have been sitting on the sidelines to now file their entry in the political lawsuit sweepstakes, 2) SCOTUS’s decision on whether to take the bull of the jurisdictional issue by the horns, 3) the coming three weeks of marination in catastrophist media campaigns aimed at selling this year’s Historic COP Agreement to Meet Again Next Year, 4) the prospect of Biden administration representatives seeking to further commit the U.S. to the Paris climate treaty at said COP, and 5) as the Trump transition team no doubt prepares to tackle Paris Withdrawal Part Deux and otherwise D.C.’s contributions to the climate industry.