Update On Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn Litigation

The tortured history of this case very well illustrates the difficulty of trying to strike a good balance between, on the one hand, having libel law as a mechanism for…

Friday Funny: The Folly of Mann

Ted Nordhaus takes no prisoners in the article on our favorite foil, when Mann starts to diss even people on his own side of the aisle. His subtitle sums it…

Steyn Files New Motion in Perpetual Mann Case

We have shown here, and in Steyn’s affirmative motion for summary judgment, that the three allegedly defamatory statements in paragraph 28 of the Amended Complaint are true. We have demonstrated…

Michael Mann: Russian Web Bots are Causing Climate Activists to Fight Each Other

According to Michael Mann, the main obstacle to climate action is a coalition of Russian robots, Saudis, fossil fuel tycoons, Rupert Murdoch, Wikileaks and climate deniers.

Michael Mann Upset WUWT Picked on Greta Thunberg

Despite leaking the secret plans of her revolutionary comrades in India, or triggering a cascade of international airline flights with her frantic personal efforts to avoid flying, Greta really cares…

Mark Steyn files an eviscerating Motion for Summary Judgement in the Michael Mann libel suit

Twitter thread from Stephen McIntyre Mark Steyn has filed an eviscerating and well-informed Motion for Summary Judgement in the Michael Mann vanity libel suit. https://www.steynonline.com/documents/10973.pdf with memorandum 2/ Steyn, for…

Claim: The Temperature Spike Just Prior to the Little Ice Age can Teach Us about Modern Global Warming

According to Patric Seifert, a tropospheric researcher at the Leibniz Institute in Germany, a large scale temperature spike occurred just before the onset of the Little Ice Age. Seifert does…

Causation Of Climate Change: Was The Medieval Warm Period “Regional”?

Some commenters yesterday noted that the climate establishment has not just completely ignored the threat to their orthodoxy posed by the Medieval Warm Period and other similarly-warm pre-human-emissions eras. Initially,…

Climategate: Another Anniversary (never forget ….)

[Editor Note: It was during the Thanksgiving weekend 11 years ago that the Climategate’s unsettling oeuvre was first being disseminated and analyzed. This post summarizes some remembrances from that period.]

Michael Mann: Whether or not Trump gets re-elected … could determine the fate of our planet

According to Michael Mann, President Trump has emboldened world leaders like Australia’s Scott Morrison to be less ambitious on climate change. But why does Mann think Biden would make such…

Michael Mann: “A second Trump term is game over for the climate – really!”

According to Michael Mann, the upcoming US Presidential election is “a Tolkienesque battle between good and evil, and Sauron needs to be defeated on election day here in the United…

Michael vs Michael: Mann attacks Moore as Russian Stooge.

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the…emails of my critics"#MichaelMoore #Putin #Russiagate #AttackonRenewables #FossilFuelAgenda pic.twitter.com/FUHcKIaYjJ— Dr. Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) May 5, 2020 https://t.co/kYZok8cz7Y pic.twitter.com/jrfQtPqXdk— Dr.…

Mann elected to National Academy of Sciences

Penn State Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center at Penn State, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences,…

Mega-Rich Environmentalists Respond To Questions About Their Use Of Private Jets

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter December 09, 2019 11:15 AM ET Billionaire Bill Gates and former Vice President Al Gore responded to criticism that their use of…

Climate Change Economist Commits Suicide Nearly A Year After Not Winning Nobel Prize

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter September 05, 2019 1:32 PM ET Climate economist Martin Weitzman died Aug. 27 from a suicide about a year after being passed…

‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming

From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. ‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming Posted on September 7, 2019 by curryja | 1 Comment by Judith Curry I used to be…

Scientists Go After The Media For Highlighting A Study Showing IPCC Climate Models Were Wrong

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 9:16 AM 09/20/2017 A climate model expert told The Washington Post there would be “extra eyes really scrutinizing” a new study claiming climate models…

Mann on the Lack of MSM Climate Coverage: "One has to wonder if television networks are compromised…"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Mann, inventor of the iconic Hockey Stick Graph, is concerned that TV networks might have been “compromised” into downplaying the climate crisis. Why has…

A call to action – give #ClimateThanks

Another Internet campaign that could go horribly wrong… Tom Nelson advises me that the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications decided to prod readers into giving “Climate Thanks” this Thanksgiving…

Virginia is for warmers? Data says no.

A new tool for climate data visualization is showcased David Walton writes to tell us about a satirical piece by Mark Steyn – titled Virginia is for Warmers I was blessedly out…

The big green machine: McAuliffe, Mann, and Megadollars

From the irascible Joe Romm at Climate Progress: But how did this happen? Follow the money. The Daily Caller has this story: Big ‘green’ dollars propel McAuliffe to victory Environmental…

New paper shows Medieval Warm Period was global in scope

Andrew Revkin writes: Michael Mann can’t be happy about this work. Here’s a chat with two authors of an important new Science paper examining 10,000 years of layered fossil plankton…

Why doesn't Lewandowsky study this phenomenon?

One of the favorite smears from Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky used to try to diminish the arguments of climate skeptics is to create dodgy psuedo-scientific psychological studies with a bent on…

Mannic hypocrisy – How much should Michael Mann pay?

Since Michael Mann seems fond of fossil fueled trips like this one: Mike Mann, Stephan Rahmstorf, Kari Norgard at the rift between continental plates in southern Iceland. Big in Reykjavik…