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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 25, 2008

Forecasting the Future

Focus Column - By Joanne Lichtman and Gil Keteltas - California is paving the way for climate-related tort litigation - cases that likely won't slow down anytime soon.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Joanne Lichtman
and Gil Keteltas

This article appears on Page 7.

      Although it may have taken an Academy Award, a Nobel Prize and apocalyptic predictions of climate-related catastrophes, climate change has by all accounts captured the attention of the American public. Underlying this public attention is a growing scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and, perhaps most relevant, that human ...

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