Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito have demonstrated particularly pronounced skepticism.
In reaction to the report, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, “Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership. With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone—now.Many ecosystems are at the point of no return – now.
This reality doesn’t seem to have penetrated the high court’s marble walls. In questioning Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar about the extent of the EPA’s statutory authority, Justice Samuel Alitodenied the reality of the climate emergency.
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