President Trump has directed federal officials to review materials found in climate guides used by judges.
“The National Academy of Sciences has historically published analytical Scientific Manuals expressly for our Federal Judiciary. Of course, the Academy has been run by Radical Left Dumocrats who, it turns out, published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change. These bogus Manuals were used by Judges to decide massive ‘Climate Change’ Cases, and have created huge losses across our Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“These Manuals have been totally DISCREDITED. Our Nation’s Federal Judges deserve Facts and Science, not Political Fraud and False Science on Climate. With this TRUTH, I hereby order Federal Suspension and Debarment Officials to review this conduct. Our Taxpayers should not be funding Climate Fraud, and Judges should never have relied upon it. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
According to the Federal Judicial Center, the climate manual is intended to “assist judges in identifying issues commonly in dispute and to help judges reach an informed and reasoned assessment of those issues based on expert evidence that is faithful to the law and within the boundaries of scientifically sound knowledge.”
Earlier this year, more than a dozen Republican attorneys general signed a letter addressed to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and War Secretary Pete Hegseth calling out a chapter in the “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence: Fourth Edition.”
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said the chapter “was designed to influence judges in multi-billion-dollar climate cases, was funded by climate litigation funders, was written by academics with little relevant scientific expertise and documented financial and institutional ties to climate litigation advocacy, and was shaped by a climate plaintiffs’ attorney.”
At the center of the dispute is the chapter’s funding and authorship. The project received money in part from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which donated to the Collective Action Fund, a group that contributed money to climate litigation firm Sher Edling. The attorneys general say this created a conflict of interest and violated the terms of an $875,000 National Science Foundation grant used to develop the manual.
Conservative legal groups have also called for Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to face a Senate Judiciary Committee Investigation after she failed to recuse herself from a climate case expected to be heard in the Court’s next term.
