From the “four years is a long time to wait for justice” department
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2016
CONTACT: Amy K. Mitchell
Mark Steyn Files For Expedited Hearing in Mann v. Steyn, et al
Washington, DC — Today, Mark Steyn requested that the Superior Court of the District of Columbia expedite the hearing and lift the stay of discovery in the case of Michael Mann v. Steyn, et al. It has been two years since the case was referred to the Appellate Court, where it is remains in limbo.
Mr. Steyn has asked the court to move forward with the case as material witnesses for the defense have passed away since the referral.
“Something needed to be done to jumpstart this case, a case that threatens the most fundamental First Amendment freedoms. The case was brought in mid-2012. It is now four years later and the appeals from defendants’ special motions to dismiss have not been decided, nor has discovery proceeded,” stated Dan Kornstein, Steyn’s lawyer. “The passage of time since the appeal was argued in this case a year and a half ago while a stay of proceedings was in effect at the trial level has stalled a case whose very existence chills freedom of speech. To correct this situation and get the case moving, Mark Steyn filed this request to ask the trial court to lift the stay of proceedings even while the appeal is pending. We hope the trial judge grants the request.”
Mr. Steyn’s request is in line with case law, as cited in the amicus brief filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the defendants, stating that SLAPP laws exist “to remedy the ‘nationally recognized problem’ of abusive lawsuits against speech on public issues by providing defendants ‘with substantive rights to expeditiously and economically dispense of litigation’ that qualified as a SLAPP – in other words, to nip such lawsuits in the bud.” Furthermore, “[T]he special motion to dismiss must generally be granted prior to discovery, D.C. Code § 16-5502(c)(1), ‘[t]o ensure [that] a defendant is not subject to the expensive and time consuming discovery that is often used in a SLAPP as a means to prevent or punish.’”
The defense of this case, due to its First Amendment implications, is supported by: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Advance Publications, Inc., Alibritton Communications Company, American Society of News Editors, Association of Alternative Newsmedia, The Association of American Publishers, Inc., Dow Jones & Company, Inc., First Amendment Coalition, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Gannett Co., Inc., Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, The McClatchy Company, MediaNews Group. Inc., d/b/a Digital First Media. The National Press Club, National Press Photographers Association. National Public Radio, Inc., NBCUniversal Media. LLC, The New York Times Company, News Corp. Newspaper Association of America. North Jersey Media Group Inc.. Online News Association, POLITICO LLC, Reuters America LLC, The Seattle Times Company, Society of Professional Journalists, Students Press Law Center, Time Inc., The Washington Post.
Related documents:
Mark Steyn’s Renewed Request for Expedited Hearing and to Left Stay of Discovery and Supplemental Brief on Plaintiff: http://www.steynonline.com/documents/7531.pdf
Brief Amici Curiae of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 26 Other Organizations in Support of Appellants and Urging Reversal: http://www.steynonline.com/documents/6515.pdf
Brief of Amicus Curiae Mark Steyn in Support of Neither Party: http://www.steynonline.com/documents/6516.pdf
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Footnote by Anthony :
If it is taking this long due to Mann and his attorney dragging their feet, obviously Mann was never all that outraged to begin with.
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Steyn to Mann: “Put up or shut up.”
Mann to his critics: “Shut up.”
I think Mikie got his legal advice from the EPA.
They told him it was a standard sue and settle case, don’t sweat it.
What does PSU think about Mann now? POS – Soorry but nothing else came to mind.
Its not Mann. Its culural Marxism fighting its critiques with every mean.
Fighting to the last Mann?
This is not about Mann or Steyn. It’s about the Obama selected liberal judge. They hav politicized the IRS, why nor the legal system to?
No just the last Mann standing.
Regards
Climate Heretic
When has either the IRS or the Legal system not been political. To suggest that is new or unique to either party is extremely naive.
Yes there’s more at stake here than just Mann’s giant ego.
They are afraid to reveal their bogus climate claptrap and
CO2 / temperature balderdash as evidence in court. Should
this “evidence” then prove false and fraudulent, then they can
be accused of perjury whilst under oath. Very serious indeed.
It’s all very well mouthing off whilst behind a stage lectern,
or in front of a crowd of supporters at some green rally,
or even on the TV screens, as seen on YouTube … etc.
However say those same things in court, under oath,
and use some fraudulent documents to support your
otherwise lunatic assertions, and it’s the pokey for you !
Can anyone point me in the direction of Mann’s income and other Alarmists via Fed Grant Money?
Mann’s strategy was always to starve Steyn out. Steyn’s feistiness might cause that to backfire.
The entire case against Steyn was based on a strawman to begin with.
It’s a strategy that nearly ruined Dr.Tim Ball.
Like a tired old boxing champ, Mann gives it
the telegraphed haymaker and hoped to knock
out Steyn with one punch. Alas Steyn does not
have a glass jaw after all, and is relentless.
See this excellent interview from April 25th 2016.
“Mark Steyn in-depth interview. During their discussion,
Weingarten and Steyn discuss the chilling of free speech
by the climate alarmists and their enablers in the political
and legal system, the stakes of the defamation suit filed
against Steyn by climate scientist Dr. Michael E. Mann”
oyez, oyez, oyez – now hear this ….
Superb analysis by Mark Steyn !
Thanks. Go get ’em Mark!
Steyn wqas superb at Sen. Cruz hearing on Climate change.
Mann must show damages. The longer he waits the more he can claim or the greater the likelihood something will manifest that he can use!??! …, I guess.
More adventures in lawfare by the left.
The way things have been going with the UN /EU/US Democrats World Totalitarian Project over the last couple of decades, I feared the Bill of Rights itself was going to be rescinded.
With the unprecedented global surge of right wingers even in countries without experience in this genre, rising up against the crescendo of idiocy of this era, maybe Mann should take his best shot asap to keep his costs down to about $40 million or so.
The surge in the Right is a direct reaction to the failure of the Left to adequately represent people. I can’t really speak for US politics (being a Brit), but it would appear that the rise of Trump is the natural reaction to the failure of the Democrats to reflect US public opinion. Much the same is going on in Britain. Our EU referendum is only being allowed in order to placate those politicians on the Right from defecting to a (seen as) right-wing party (UKIP – which isn’t really to the political right at all, more of a common-sense party). Otherwise we wouldn’t be getting a sniff of a referendum, all our political parties hate the idea of democracy (as most governments do, it gets in the way of their ideology). It’s all interesting to watch.
In the US, it’s not just the Left (Democrats) that has failed to listen to the electorate causing the rise of Trump. The Right (Republicans), so-called, has also failed to listen to the electorate. That’s why we are seeing an outright socialist Sanders, who at least is probably the most honest of the candidates, and a populist Trump do so well.
The problem with populism is that it’s little more than socialism with a strong social conservative streak.
MarkW
I’m not sure exactly what you mean, can we flesh out this thought. I generally agree with what you say, but this seems a bit vague to me.
I have to admit I’m a little confused as to exactly what populism is, but evidently if I support Trump, I’m a populist;]
I actually thought it was closer to nationalism, but I may be way off there.
Thanks.
SMC,
I was thinking the same thing about Sanders, but then I thought about a bit and realized … If he is honest (and believes in what he is saying) then he has got be one big stupid & ignorant son of a gun.
So, now I figure is dishonest ….
Yeah the Right promised the Evangelicals and social conservatives that they would bring the US in line with their beliefs. They promised them every election and somebody has finally begun to wise up. Or how the Republicans took over the Tea Party. The Democrats abandoned their natural constituency, labor, decades ago see https://smile.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/dp/1627795391/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464840296&sr=1-1&keywords=listen+liberal
Populists in general dislike wealthy people and big companies, and want to use government to control them.
Populists in general think trade with other nations is bad.
Glenn, no deep mysterie but all american :
‘I have to admit I’m a little confused as to exactly what populism is, but evidently if I support Trump, I’m a populist;]’
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populist == advertising / sell / try to make friends
Obviously Trump isn’t even good at that – but why should he when there’s marketing agencies.
Okay, so why do people call Trump a populist. Business folks tend to want businesses to be free of govt. interventions. Perhaps the labels are incomplete to really explain someone?
So I feel better, NOT a populist. Whew!!!
says
money buys friends = popular.
…The fact Mann and his lawyers fear facing Steyn in court, tells you a lot about the shaky ground they stand on !
Stick it to the Mann
Steyn already underwent discovery. Mann has not. Steyn’s countersuit against Mann is separate from and unrelated to NR motion to dismiss Mann’s suit under anti-Slapp, denied and on appeal on the issue of whether appealable at that point. Steyn’s motion should be granted concerning his countersuit.
Did Steyn voluntarily undergo discovery, or did the courts force him to do so while allowing Mann to avoid it? Where’s the fairness in requiring one side to undergo discovery long before the other side has to do so?
It was voluntary, a tactic to get Mann to reciprocate and move the case forward. Didn’t work. Mann has everything to fear from discovery (which is under oath and subject to perjury). And Mann knows from Steyn’s book that he has large caliber loaded weapons. Mann cannot drop his suit because of Steyn’s equally valide countersuit that Steyn will NOT drop. Mann is in a very difficult place, and itnlooks like the stalling is about over.
Mann is a girl. Maybe that’s what’s given this administration the chutzpah to issue idiotic decrees on restroom utilization. /sarc
Hey! On behalf of all REAL females, I object to you trying to foist Mann off onto us. We do not want him, especially in the ladies’ room.
Best of luck with your request, Mark.
Cheers
Mann has stepped away from Climate science because of the law suits brought against him, so he says. In other words, he is trying to avoid discovery. Further, he says he feels abandoned by his fellow hockey stickers. In other words, they are giving him the shitty end of the stick.
you meant to say “fellow hockey shtickers”
Hmmm… that’s rather appropriate. Mann knew from the beginning his hockey stick wasn’t made of wood.
High sticking puts you in the penalty box. Gotta play a Mann short! He’s no good on defence or offence anyway.
“High sticking puts you in the penalty box.”
And you feel shame.
Can we put Mann in the sin bin? Maybe until 2100? He likes that year…
M Mann is just waiting for technology in sport to change the shape of hockey sticks.
Ever seen a floor hockey stick ?
A hockey stick on the floor is ______________________________
“If it is taking this long due to Mann and his attorney dragging their feet, obviously Mann was never all that outraged to begin with.” It has nothing to do with outrage and everything to do with bullying. If Mann wasn’t prodded and financially backed for this suit it would have never happened. I’m sure he was told ….and believed…. he would be doing a service for the good of climate science. I’m guessing he’s becoming more and more worried as the trial approaches (whenever). It’s not about money but reputation and he knows he’ll lose one thing money can’t buy.
Outside his own mind, Mann never had that much of a reputation to begin with.
Just look at how fast his friends have disappeared now that his usefulness is over.
Can’t wait for that show. Trying to defend cagw in a court of law is going to be like a Bob Newhart sketch.
cephus0 commented: “Can’t wait for that show. Trying to defend cagw in a court of law is going to be like a Bob Newhart sketch…”
You can expect the council to steer away from defending or proving CAGW . The people that are paying for his representation will quickly offer Mann to the wolves to see that happen, especially if he loses.
The case isn’t actually about cagw. It’s about free speech. Mark Steyn expressed an opinion that Dr. Mann didn’t like. Mann sued Steyn in order to ruin him with lawyers’ fees as a result of defending himself. This is called a SLAPP suit. It stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
In the normal course of events, Mann could drop the suit and Steyn would be stuck paying his legal bills. That’s plenty of punishment. A decent defense can cost more than a million dollars.
Three things make this case different:
1 – Mark Steyn has a bunch of ‘friends of the court’ on his side. No journalist wants to see Mann win this case.
2 – Civil cases are different than criminal cases in one important respect. In criminal cases, the defendant doesn’t have to supply incriminating evidence. This is a civil case. Both sides get ‘discovery’. That means the other side has to supply requested documents. That’s going to be painfully embarassing for Mann, which is why he is dragging his feet.
3 – Steyn has counter sued Mann. That means Mann can’t avoid discovery by dropping the case.
Because the discovered documents are going to be worse than embarassing for Mann, it almost doesn’t matter whether or not he wins. Hint – he’s not going to win. This could wreck Mann’s career.
One can only hope it does take a Wrecking Ball to Mann’s career. Mann has done great damage to Science, World, Consumers stuck buying “Greenie” products, and Taxpayers who have been forced to fund the entire Global Warming Sham-wow.
Mann’s “career” is so bad that what light is shed on it might be an improvement.
Don’t need to prove or disprove CAGW, but do need to show that free speech allows Mark to comment on the fact that hockey stick is unproven, and contains potentially fraudulent analysis/data – plenty of potential evidence on that. This doesn’t need to be a “show trial” on Global Warming, and shouldn’t be – I don’t like the idea of courts ruling on science, and no real scientist would want that either.
Steyn just needs to show that he’s entitled to his opinion, and there’s some reason why Mann’s work could be characterized as a fraud – certainly there are plenty of that opinion, given how his work has been raked over the coals, and how much internal discussion about it is in “climate gate”, etc. Best path for Mark is to win, not try to move a liberal court to repudiate the “concensus”.
does anybody remember the SCO vs IBM lawsuit about who owned linux. Mann and his team seem to be behaving much as the SCO side did.
If Dr. Mann behaves the way SCO did, he’s in big trouble. As far as I can tell, SCO was engaged in a scorched earth campaign spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about Linux. The problem is the ‘scorched earth’ part. SCO no longer exists.
Mikey’s gonna get SLAPPed with his own hockey sticks. They need to stick it to the Mann.
…In very dark places ?
Everyone who bought Mark’s books and CDs has invested in the outcome of this case. We need to continue to buy his latest books and any new CDs produced. We all have a vested interest in free speech, and Mark is at the tip of our spear. Support Mark!
Go get em Mark! There is a move in hockey called the ‘can opener’ that works quite well.
My latest is up and I am working on a much bigger project.
http://dailybail.com/home/epa-gave-convicted-climate-expert-salary-awards-after-he-def.html
And people wonder why scientists shouldn’t run the country!
Whole case is 3-years past due process. Judge that has allowed this case to sit and sit and sit, should be removed from bench.
Mann’s foot-dragging demonstrates his suit was never about seeking Justice, it was about abusing legal system to intimidate.
The judge and her district was handpicked?
Let us hope said judge is “encouraged” to retire soon.
Mann is a hero of the day for putting up with this.
No scientist should be harassed by a well funded campaign, including buying adwords against his name, to do defamation.
If a paper is wrong it won’t be reproducible. In the case of MBH 1999, it has been reproduced.
If you don’t like the results, you need to get a pack of cards and deal with it.
“Mann is a hero of the day…”
Hero’s don’t Fabricate, Mislead, or Lie.
Dems,
You’re right, they don’t do those things – so that clearly makes Mann the “anti-hero”, and Mark the Hero. Find something wrong with his book on the subject, if you can (quoting climate scientists), and bring it to this forum, or be quiet and learn something. You can certainly find plenty wrong with Mann’s work – doesn’t take much of a Google search to turn that up.
Dems B. Dcvrs wrote: Hero’s don’t Fabricate, Mislead, or Lie.
The reason Steyn is using a first amendment argument rather than having the court go over Mann’s work is because Mann didn’t Fabricate, Mislead or Lie.
It’s perfectly scientific to attack the work, try to reproduce it, to publish a different temperature reconstruction, and to suggest reasons why yours is the more accurate one where there are differences.
The “skeptics” have done none of those things.
Meanwhile, the scientific community has reproduced the temperature history over and over again as other proxies are uncovered, leaving the “skeptics” more and more irrelevant, but more and more furious with their ad-hominems: Inviting further irrelevance as their rage against irrelevance increases.
But these are also personal attacks, and that is indefensible.
I love it when trolls have to try to change the subject.
Since you are so obviously ignorant Seth, I will try to type really slow so that you can keep up.
Mann sued Steyn claiming that Steyn damaged his reputation when Steyn told the truth about Mann.
That suit is ongoing.
Steyn counter sued Mann claiming that Mann’s suit was illegitimate.
That suit is also ongoing.
Other’s have joined the battle, including the ACLU, noting that if Mann wins, this will be a huge strike against the 1st amendment.
Seth on June 2, 2016 at 12:21 am
Dems B. Dcvrs wrote: Hero’s don’t Fabricate, Mislead, or Lie.
The reason Steyn is using a first amendment argument rather than having the court go over Mann’s work is because Mann didn’t Fabricate, Mislead or Lie.
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Seth, anything typed onto the Keyboard closed with Post Comment adds text to the internet.
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Well done.
MarkW June 2, 2016 at 7:27 am
I love it when trolls have to try to change the subject.
Since you are so obviously ignorant Seth, I will try to type really slow so that you can keep up.
Mann sued Steyn claiming that Steyn damaged his reputation
Not quite right, Mann sued Steyn, National Review, CEI and Rand Simberg for defamation .
Everyone but Steyn filed an Anti-SLAPP motion, which was denied, and they appealed, oral arguments took place but there is still no resolution of the appeal. That’s what is holding up the proceedings.
The only replication is with a xerox machine
Seth says,
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“It’s perfectly scientific to attack the work, try to reproduce it, to publish a different temperature reconstruction, and to suggest reasons why yours is the more accurate one where there are differences.
The “skeptics” have done none of those things..
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Seth is completely unaware of the many papers both before , (Mann ignored every one of them) and after Mann’s hockey paper which demonstrate a MWP as warm or warmer then our current period.
Seth is also unaware, or chooses to ignore, the many papers that have shredded both Mann’s data and the methods he used.
MarkW June 2, 2016 at 7:28 am
“Seth is also unaware, or chooses to ignore, the many papers that have shredded both Mann’s data and the methods he used.”
Please illuminate us with these “papers.” As far as I know Mann’s work has been replicated in peer reviewed studies many times. So If you have other peer reviewed papers that contradict his… let’s see them.
Seth says ‘Mann is a hero for putting up with this’.
Oh Seth, your words could hardly be dumber.
Go soak your head.
Seth says Mann is a hero of the day. The day today is June 1, not April 1. Hero? For filing a lawsuit? You choose your heros quite lightly, Saffron.
Seth – Democratic activist Michael Mann started the lawsuits. Stern frequently ridicules leftist activists, but he does not sue them…..unless they start it. Democratic activist Michael Mann is opposed to free speech by people who disagree with him. He tried to silence Steyn and others through this lawsuit. Steyn has financed his side of the case through engaging in free speech about Mann (he wrote a book, you should buy it and read it). In the book, many scientists are quoted about their takes on Mann’s work.
Democrat Mann should not have started a fight to restrict the first amendment rights of people who make their living writing. Steyn is a well known defender of the first amendment and he is correctly fighting back. For a Democratic Party activist to want to violate other people’s free speech rights is despicable. And unfortunately common for members of the Democratic Party these days. It is a sad sight.
Leon0112 wrote: Democratic activist Michael Mann is opposed to free speech by people who disagree with him.
I think you’ll find that he’s against defamation with malice.
The truth is not defamation.
BTW, if Mann is so convinced that he was defamed, why is he dragging his feet on his own lawsuit?
“Mann is a hero of the day for putting up with this.”
BWAHAHAHAHA! Good one, Seth!
Yes, anyone who sues someone else should never suffer the “harassment” of having the lawsuit come to court for judgement.
Your logic does not resemble our Earth logic.
Analitik wrote Yes, anyone who sues someone else should never suffer the “harassment” of having the lawsuit come to court for judgement.
Accusing a scientist of conducting his research fraudulently, manipulating his data to achieve a predetermined or political outcome, or purposefully distorting the scientific truth are factual allegations. They go to the heart of scientific integrity. They can be proven true or false. If false, they are defamatory. If made with actual malice, they are actionable. – Judge Frederick Weisberg
Your understanding of the court case does not resemble the one that has been proceeding.
Some of defendants’ statements, however, contain what could reasonably be understood as assertions of fact. Accusing a scientist of conducting his research fraudulently, manipulating his data to achieve a predetermined or political outcome, or purposefully distorting the scientific truth are factual allegations. They go to the heart of scientific integrity. They can be proven true or false. If false, they are defamatory. If made with actual malice, they are actionable. – Judge Frederick Weisberg
That is the crux of the matter. In the modern world you can make a living by saying nasty things about your betters. It’s speaks poorly of your audience, but you legally can. If you defame them, with actual malice, they have legal recourse.
Seth, ‘If false, they are defamatory. If made with actual malice, they are actionable. – Judge Frederick Weisberg’
Bloody big word that “if”.
a statement does not need to be both false and malicious to be actionable.
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depends. the court allows you to ridicule people in high places. otherwise those in high places could abuse their position with impunity.
the problem comes when those in high place use the high cost of legal system itself, not the courts, to try and silence their critics.
this is what this case is about. whether Mann is using the high cost of litigation as a means to silence his critics, rather than the judgement of the courts.
“saying nasty things about your betters”
And there we have it. The standard leftist view regarding anyone who disagrees with them.
All arrogance, no substance. Again.
Let me guess–you also believe Hillary is the epitome of honesty, right, Seth?
Oh Seth, please watch Mark Steyn’s interview above on this thread please, like as in “pretty please”?
If a paper is wrong it won’t be reproducible. In the case of MBH 1999, it has been reproduced
It has? With what? A photocopier?
http://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/Hockey_League_spaghetti.gif
Nice one Seth.
I see you have appended instrumental records onto proxy data in such a manner as to obscure the “divergence problem” of the proxy results since about 1960. Oh wait, that’s the same “trick” that Mann used in his Nature article and which Jones then adopted for the same reasons.
My mistake. When you said replicated, I thought you meant his science had been replicated. Now I see you mean his deception has been replicated. Error on my part for which I apologize.
Seth,
Build a bridge, then just get over it.
” ……you need to get a pack of cards and deal with it.”
Gawd, Seth, you are so clever, we all just curl up in a ball and whimper in your presence.
LIER
I meant he who wrote “If a paper is wrong it won’t be reproducible. In the case of MBH 1999, it has been reproduced”.
Using the same bad data and the same bogus methods, they got the same fraudulent results.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Where’ s this well funded campaign against Mann? Is it the same funding that the rest of climate D#niers are being paid from?
WOW!
Talk about twist and shout!
Mann has brought suits against Dr. Tim Ball, Elmer (for the original “Hide the Decline”), Mark Steyn (who counter-sued to your ‘hero’s” chagrin). There may be others.
Mann’s legal fees are being paid by a well funded group. (I forget the name off hand.)
His legal targets are the real “heroes of the day”.
Mann is the “legaphile” in all this.
(He started out as an arborphile.)
As far reproducing what Mann has done, I can show you an equation that results in 1=0. You can change a few of the numbers if you want and you’ll still get 1=0. Just keep repeating the sort-of-hidden error in the equation.
“Mann didn’t Fabricate, Mislead or Lie.”
Mann used cherry picked and very limited data to create his now debunked Hockey Stick Chart. That is Fabrication.
Mann truncated his Hockey Stick Chart to hide MWP and the Decline. That is Misleading.
Mann said he received Nobel Peace Prize. That is a Lie.
Man has been made very aware that his work has serious flaws, yet continues to proclaim his work as fact. That is goes beyond unscientific.
Seth,
I am sorry, but MBH 98 (the hockey stick, recklessly published by Nature and the IPCC) was proven to be a crock. Neither MISTER Michael Mann (at the time of the paper’s acceptance),Dr. Bradley, or Dr. Hughes, was a statistician. They din’t invite a statistician to work on the project. But the entire project was based on statistical inferences.
It’s pretty clear, in retrospect, that the authors inspected multiple data sources, and personally chose data that “looked good” and rejected data that “looked bad”, and then applied “statistically sound” methods to the data that they liked. At least as they thought. They were wrong.
Later “confirming” papers are interesting. It is unheard of for scientifically incorrect papers to be confirmed by scientifically correct papers, i.e. methodologically wrong findings to be confirmed by methodologically sound findings. So our choice is to conclude, Bogus, unscientific work is replicated by scientific work-what a miracle– or there’s a group of unscientific quacks working in cahoots, as demonstrated in the UEA emails,.
In California, is there a horrific drought, pre-El Nino. No, the drought wasn’t that bad. There is mismanagement of water supplies. The Sacramento River could be supplying water to the Central Valley to support farms that feed San Franciscans, Los Angelenos, and people across America. Those “selfish farmers” have to be punished for feeding the largest populaces of California, and the rest of America. But the farm product must be curtailed to protect the Delta Smelt. Is that really the objective? I don’t think so. A hatchery program would protect the smelt. The goal is to wreak starvation of humans.
If the little hockey stick Mann is such a good scientist why did he switch from using tree ring data to real data? That is highly unscientific. Also as his tree ring data came from such a small section of the globe it says nothing about the global situation.
You need to accept that his hockey stick is a joke and has made him a laughing stock for good reason.
… Expedited Hearing and to Left Stay of Discovery…
Yes, Mann is LEFT, but that would be Lift Stay of Discovery
Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
One for the Masters in Lunacy perhaps?
RockyRoad June 1, 2016 at 9:42 pm says: “Mann’s “career” is so bad that what light is shed on it might be an improvement.”
May we assume that the light will be powered by renewable, sustainable energy?
…only if you want to pay dearly for it.
I get the impression the problem with discovery is that there is nothing to discover. Also, Steyn can put climate science global warming itself on trial.
Dare to dream, Mann and Hillary in striped pant suits, perpwalking into Leavenworth for federal crimes. Him worried about “hockey sticks” and her, worried that the horizontal stripes make her cankles look even bigger.
Accusing a scientist of conducting his research fraudulently, manipulating his data to achieve a predetermined or political outcome, or purposefully distorting the scientific truth are factual allegations. They go to the heart of scientific integrity. They can be proven true or false. If false, they are defamatory. If made with actual malice, they are actionable. – Judge Frederick Weisberg
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that is actually a very interesting statement by the judge as it would appear to open up Mann’s work itself for discovery, including the emails that Mann has worked so hard to keep from the public view.
what better way to determine the truth about HOW the research was conducted than to examine the correspondence concerning the work. because the judge’s comments are not about whether the work itself is “true”, but rather how the work was conducted.
was Mann a dispassionate observer when he conducted his scientific work, or did he have a bias? was he personally motivated for example to prove that the LIA and MWP for example did not exist, and thereby make the case that modern climate change must be man made?
because it is well established that science requires that you be the dispassionate observer, otherwise it is highly likely that your internal bias will skew your findings, regardless of your intentions. Did
for example: did Mann use double blind techniques to prevent bias, or did he for example cherry pick data using a “censored” folder to bias the work to meet his expectations? This need not be willful, as most problems in science are due to the sub-conscious bias that we all have, but are unware of.
As a (hopefully) humorous aside, this comment was made about 4 years ago under “Weather Cows”.
“All this talk of cows and weather predictions got me curious about something. So, to satisfy my curiosity, I checked out some old emails on the UV server. Lo and behold, I discovered that the lesser known but very first “Hockey Stick” wasn’t based on tree rings at all! It seems a certain someone studied a series of preserved hoof prints. Not being a farm boy, he could only tell which direction they faced by noting the location of any assoiated cow pies. After discarding those that didn’t have a cow pie, he determined the direction of the remainder. Assuming any wind coming from the direction of Tennessee would be warmer (for some unknown reason), he plotted his proxies and the very first “Hockey Stick” was born! But … alas … someone saw his raw data and it was discovered that he wasn’t looking at cow prints and cow pies at all but rather bull prints and bull … scat. But he liked the “Hockey Stick”! Rather than admit what it was really based on, he looked for something else to plot that would produce the same results as the original bull-based plot. When he noticed the first rise of his stick seemed to correspond to Al Gore’s winning his first election, he turned to something wooden. This is how the second but better known “Hockey Stick” was born. And now you know the rest of the story!”
Greg Laden posts on this
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/06/02/mark-steyns-latest-trick/
Wonder if he was prompted by climatenexus