Climate change is one of the defining crises of our time, and climate litigation is poised to play a pivotal role.
Every summer, a court room at a Minnesota law school fills with climate scientists who learn how to testify as expert witnesses. Their weeklong training program doubles as a testing ground for one of the biggest, thorniest issues confronting the wave of lawsuits: scientific evidence.
In this feature for Undark Magazine, journalist Peter Smith follows one class as it confronts the messy intersection of litigation and scientific communication. It's a kind of Petri dish and, quite possibly, a prequel for what’s to come.
