[Source.](https://the-pipeline.org/the-climate-change-crews-frivolous-lawfare/) > Nevertheless, as public support for "climate change" hooey wanes, inventive trial lawyers representing New York, San Francisco, other liberal cities and counties that are failing their citizenry have come up with a new tack: legal shakedowns. As UC Berkeley professor John Yoo notes, they're trying to “distort tort law, our nation’s system for resolving accidents and harms, and seek outlandish damages from energy companies for the alleged harms of global warming.” They're after funding from producers, refiners, and gas sellers to compensate for imaginary global-warming “induced sea level rise, flooding, erosion, and harm to municipal infrastructure and water systems,” and demand an “adaptation program” to pay for sea walls, raising the elevation of buildings’ and other infrastructure modifications.