Climate Change Is Erased From Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence for Judges NYT: Science By:Karen Zraick 10 February 2026 at 16:11 After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Β© Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated PressJ.B. McCuskey, the West Virginia attorney general, in Washington last month. He led the effort against the climate chapter in the judgesβ handbook.