In a Court of Law, No Challenge To the Basic Science that Human Activity Is Causing Climate Change

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As previously discussed, the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in Northern California are starting to incur enormous costs associated with rising sea levels, as well as severe storms and droughts that last many years and result in horrific wildfires and devastating crop losses. 
In turn, the cities are suing the large oil companies to recover damages on the basis that the defendants knowingly but secretly caused the climate change that is driving this environmental ruin.

The judge hearing the case has taken the unusual tack of ordering both the plaintiff and the defendant to construct and present tutorials that lay out their understanding of the science of climate change.  Most interestingly, and counter to what some might have expected, neither side contests the basis theory of anthropogenic global warming (though the defendant’s attorney, of course, challenges the idea that his clients should be held accountable).

This makes it all the more absurd that our federal government is led almost exclusively by climate change deniers.  Most notably, Jim Bridenstine, who just became Trump’s new NASA administrator, the man who now runs the U.S. space program, is a climate denier who has made a career out of ignoring science.  (Bridenstine needs to personally approve that each space launch can be accomplished safely, something that should make every single American positively irate.)