‘Shocking and inappropriate’: Authorized specialists slam judges’ information over local weather bias claims
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/shocking-inappropriate-legal-experts-slam-judges-guide-over-climate-bias-claims
Federal reference manual includes foreword by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and cites activists, including from group under House probe
By Charles Creitz Fox News
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A gold-standard guide used by judges nationwide to address subjects they are not particularly versed in is drawing criticism over the latest edition’s inclusion of purported ideological bias focused on its climate section.
Critics have said the fourth edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence – which includes a foreword by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan – appears to blur the line between neutrally educating judges and indoctrinating them with left-wing advocates’ prose.
The approximately 1,600-page guide was released at the beginning of the year and includes several citations and footnotes to climate change activists and proponents, including climatologist Michael Mann and environmental law expert Jessica Wentz.
Wentz is the topline expert at the Climate Judiciary Project at the Environmental Law Institute — an entity currently under federal investigation, as Fox News Digital recently reported.
“The Committee on the Judiciary is investigating allegations of improper attempts by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and its Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) to influence federal judges,” read a statement from House Judiciary Committee members Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
Jordan and Issa found evidence of efforts to “influence judges who potentially may be presiding over lawsuits related to alleged climate change claims… [which] appear to have the underlying goal of predisposing federal judges in favor of plaintiffs alleging injuries from the manufacturing, marketing, use, or sale of fossil-fuel products.”
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The House Judiciary Committee previously alleged CJP’s efforts appear to have the underlying goal of predisposing federal judges in favor of plaintiffs involved in climate litigation.
Mann, a climate change academic in Pennsylvania, authored a book called “The New Climate War,” and the judges’ guide cites the book to claim the energy industry has sought to deceive the public.
He resigned from a role at the University of Pennsylvania in 2025 after disparaging social media comments about Charlie Kirk that invoked the Hitler Youth movement, and previously successfully sued conservative commentator Mark Steyn for $1 million over aggressive criticism of his famous “hockey stick graph” that resulted from his study of human influence on global warming over the centuries.
Climate lying hits a new level: Radical climate activists allowed to write guidance for federal judges on climate science. The guidance, for example, cites Michael Mann as an authoritative source on climate science several times even though:
1. Mann has just been sanctioned by a…
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) January 29, 2026
BOMBSHELL: A federal reference manual, meant to educate judges on topics they aren’t experts in, has been revealed to include left-wing climate propaganda from “experts” deeply involved in climate lawfare against American energy.
— Fmr. Rep. Jason Isaac (@ISAACforEnergy) January 29, 2026