CA Judge Demands Climate Liars (Monckton, Soon, Lindzen) Say Who Pays Them After Last-Minute Briefs
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One group includes adamant nay-sayers like Willie Soon and Christopher Monckton, and another includes Richard Lindzen of MIT and Steven Koonin, an advocate of the "red team, blue team" approach to debating competing visions of how the world works.
It's not clear whether U.S. District Judge William Alsup—who called the hearing as part of a case in which the cities of San Francisco and Oakland are suing fossil fuel companies over climate change-related costs—wants to drag such voices into the fray. He set up the hearing in a way that either side in the case may call expert witnesses if they wish.
On Monday, the judge said he had received two "friend of the court" briefs and told the two groups of contrarians to each file a statement by the close of business on Tuesday declaring who paid for their research, whether they received support from anyone "on either side of the climate debate," and whether any of them were "affiliated in any way (directly or indirectly)" with parties to the litigation."
And why, he asked, did they wait so long to present their documents, limiting the time for others to respond to them?
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032018/climate-change-denial-monckton-soon-koonin-california-cities-lawsuit-judge-science-tutorial
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Light as a disinfectant.
for the court!
