Comments on: Global warming as political question https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/04/global-warming-as-political-question/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/04/global-warming-as-political-question/comment-page-1/#comment-118866 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:49:18 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22630#comment-118866 >Global warming may be a hot political controversy, but it is certainly a question of fact and not opinion; therefore, I think your approach is misguided.

Not clear what your objection is here. The distinction between political questions and traditionally cognizable judicial questions does not track any line between fact and opinion.

]]> By: John David Galt https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/04/global-warming-as-political-question/comment-page-1/#comment-118865 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:34:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=22630#comment-118865 Global warming may be a hot political controversy, but it is certainly a question of fact and not opinion; therefore, I think your approach is misguided.

But it would be nice if there were a precedent you could use to force a court to hand off questions of science to qualified scientists; not to mention a “Sarbanes-Oxley for tax funded science reports” that could be used to prosecute those involved in the ClimateGate scam and purge the institutions that whitewashed it after it was revealed.

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