Zillow, First Street, and the Price of Panic: Can Climate Data Be Sued?

The Uerkwitz lawsuit could be the first of many. If courts begin recognizing that climate risk data can inflict tangible economic harm, the entire architecture of climate fearmongering—from ESG scoring to catastrophe modeling—may soon find itself under legal scrutiny. The age of consequence may finally arrive, not for those who “deny” the crisis, but for those who profit from inventing it.