The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) is preparing to release a major report on the state of climate attribution science – and once again, the fingerprints of climate litigation activists and plaintiffs’ attorneys are all over the process.

The people involved in the report’s development include Michael Burger, an academic and attorney for climate plaintiffs’ firm Sher Edling, as well Delta Merner, who leads the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate Accountability Campaign and served on the NAS committee guiding the report’s development until January 2025. Both Burger and Merner have publicly discussed the critical relationship between attribution science and climate litigation.

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