In a climate case, more so
than any other policy - related case, courts need to inform themselves of the range of
scientific opinions, the specific points of agreement and
disagreements, the assumptions made by scientists, their theories and reasoning, the validity and accuracy of the models used, the unknowns, uncertainties, and gradations, etc..
For instance, considerably more Tea Party members
than Republicans incorrectly thought there was a lot of
scientific disagreement about global warming (69 percent to 56 percent).