The ‘Climate Hysterics’ finally got their day in court. But things did not go well for them.

Judge Alsup asked a simple question: “What do you think caused the Ice Age?”

The expert’s answer: “A wobble in the Earth’s orbit.”

And things went downhill from there.

Via Free Beacon.

A civil suit playing out between five American oil companies and the municipalities of Oakland and San Francisco started off poorly for climate change activists.

In preparation for California v. Chevron, the date for which has yet to determined, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup ordered the litigants converge for a “climate change tutorial” in an effort to ensure all parties understood the scientific foundation that would form the basis of the trial. The city attorneys of San Francisco and Oakland, the suit’s plaintiffs who are championed by climate change activists, were reportedly thrilled by the prospect….

The suit accuses the energy companies–BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Conoco Phillips, and Shell–of contributing to climate change and conspiring to cover up their knowledge of the associated detrimental effects….

During the tutorial, the judge pointed to several inaccuracies in the data and materials provided by the plaintiffs, sometimes to the embarrassment of climate change activists.

Alsup also castigated the plaintiff’s claims of a “smoking gun” document that would prove the conspiracy claims true. The plaintiffs pointed to a report that the companies had in their possession as proof they knew about the nefarious effects of climate change in 1995….

“There was a conspiratorial document within the defendants about how they knew good and well that global warming was right around the corner,” Alsup said. “Well, it turned out it wasn’t quite that. What it was, was a slide show that somebody had gone to the IPCC and was reporting on what the IPCC had reported, and that was it. Nothing more.”

The judge pointed out that since the report was widely and readily available, proving a conspiracy claim would be difficult….

Climate Alarmists May Inherit the Wind

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  1. Alain41 says:

    FWIW: Judge Alsup issued a temporary injunction in January stopping Trump’s rescission of DACA. He also learned Java coding for a previous case. So he’s a judge who likes the details.

  2. n9zf says:

    WOuld be cool for Alsup to subpoena the FOTRAN code that creates teh hockey stick curve from random data.

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