Climate change activists are calling for Florida municipalities to join a wave of lawsuits against the oil and gas industry. This legal movement, which began in San Francisco, Oakland and other California cities and counties, seeks to hold oil and gas companies responsible for what activists say is their role in hiding “secret science” about climate change.
Their claim that companies somehow hid scientific facts about climate change is a laughable idea for something as widely covered as the climate, studied by innumerable universities, research groups, and governments. Nevertheless, cities have signed up, from New York City to Boulder, Colo., turning this West Coast legal fad into a national movement.
Florida city leaders, for the sake of their constituents and the environment, should reject the urge to enlist in these suits.
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