Federal Court Will Hold Landmark Hearing on "Global Warming."
U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, will feature lawyers for Exxon, BP, Chevron and other oil companies...
“This will be the closest that we have seen to a trial on climate science in the United States, to date,” said Michael Burger, a lawyer who heads the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.
The presiding judge has called for a "tutorial" on climate change.
In the five-hour hearing, both the cities and the oil companies will have a chance to present Alsup with their views on the history of climate change science, and the most important recent findings in the field.
Alsup ordered the tutorial as part of his ruling last week that the San Francisco and Oakland lawsuit would be heard in federal court, as opposed to California state court.
This ought to be interesting!
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