Because sometimes, the science isn’t settled—but the bill is due.
After more than a decade of legal proceedings, climate scientist and courtroom hobbyist Dr. Michael E. Mann has been ordered to pay $530,000+ in legal fees to National Review and Mark Steyn.
Now, Dr. Mann faces his greatest existential threat yet—not rising temperatures, but rising legal bills.
It’s time to Help a Mann Out.
Fundraiser Goals
- $531,000 — Covers court-mandated payments and leaves just enough left over to commission a new graph.
- $750,000 — Includes overhead, paper shredding, and rebranding the phrase “academic integrity.”
- $1,000,000 — Unlocks a new round of litigation and enough surplus for a small Himalayan glacier-naming ceremony.
Donation Tiers
$100 — The Summary Judgment Tier
- Receive a thank-you email generated by a neural network trained on RealClimate blog posts.
- Includes access to a redacted copy of the amicus brief you weren’t allowed to read.
$1,000 — The Discovery Phase
- Includes all previous perks.
- Comes with an official Michael E. Mann Action Figure — complete with:
- Hockey stick (nonfunctioning),
- Courtroom suit (non-removable),
- Red phone labeled “LAWYER HOTLINE,”
- Slice of tree ring proxy data for conversation-starting decor.
$5,000 — The Offset Package
- All previous perks, plus:
- A printed certificate indicating you’ve offset the carbon footprint of one legal brief.
- Credits backed by post-modern climate ethics and four peer-reviewed feelings.
$10,000 — The Non-Interactive Dinner Experience
- All previous perks.
- A 45-minute Skype dinner with Dr. Mann.
- Rules:
- You may not ask questions.
- You must nod politely.
- All dialogue must be pre-approved by a university communications officer.
Shipping & Handling
- The action figure will be shipped in packaging designed to resemble a congressional subpoena.
- Carbon credits will be sent by email (please print them to make them real).
🚫 Legal Disclaimer
“Help a Mann Out” is a parody campaign. Donations are not tax deductible, unless your accountant also believes CO₂ causes inflation. Michael E. Mann is not affiliated with this fundraiser and likely has his lawyer on speed dial already.
Don’t delay. Give today. And remember—when the temperature graph goes up, the legal defense fund must too.
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Story Tip:
‘https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-ten-nuclear-energy-bad-idea.html’
Do not waste your time following this link – rehash of “Bad Nuclear Bad” junk from the “China Syndrome” days. Just another Zombie fear campaign
Dropping a little ENIGMA encoded ‘time capsule’ here to be opened later –
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Well that’s a novel approach, Jim.
I’ve never encountered a time capsule that wasn’t meant to be opened later.
Did you discover that Saturn has rings?
Many of those “Top Ten” any-news things are “Click Bait” for Malware injection sites anyway
Story Tip: Australia is a continental scale loony bin.
So weird what’s happened there. All my life (75 yrs) I always thought it was a nation of common sense people. What caused it turn into a loony bin?
“Progressive” governments inflicted at all 3 levels (local, state, federal) all across the nation by “educated” young voters since about 2008 is what done it, Joseph.
Hopefully Joseph, that well-proven axiom will hold true –
“If you’re not a progressive at 30, you haven’t got a heart.
If you’re still a progressive at 50, you haven’t got a brain.”
Gold words!
Hey.. that’s a bit unfair. ! 😉
Everyone I know around here is well and truly grounded in reality.
They scoff at all the woke BS, ignore clowns that talk about “climate change™”
They know what a “woman” is. !
Most of the woke leftist idiocy seems to come from the affluent inner-city virtue-seekers and the loony-left lobbyists.
Cool piece of propaganda. The biggest is that it would cause Australia to miss its climate goals.
Well, we now know that such climate ‘goals’ are basically invalid.
There is a Federal election in a couple of weeks..
Basically the only difference between the two major parties is that the Clayton’s conservative party (called the Liberal Party) actually wants to start pushing the idea of nuclear power… as part of “carbon reduction” 🙁
So naturally, the far-left Labor/Green parties will be spewing anti-nuclear bile at every possible moment. They are even more brainwashed with “carbon reduction” and want to destroy the coal and gas industries, and plant Chinese produced wind turbines everywhere.
There are a couple of minor parties which know the whole “climate/carbon” thing is a farce, but the best we can hope for is that a couple of them get into the Senate and hold the balance of power to keep the worst of the anti-carbon idiocy at bay.
I fear we are in for another 3 years of hard labor.
Like the last four years was the pinnacle of success? Get real.
Professor debunks common misconception about nuclear power plants: ‘It’s just unbelievable how we’ve gotten to this point’
PS: Here’s your alternative tradeoff climate changer-
Mines, Minerals, and “Green” Energy: A Reality Check | Manhattan Institute
link to the district of columbia court website for all the orders, motions , filings etc
https://portal-dc.tylertech.cloud/app/RegisterOfActions/#/D71396C82ECD1A3BD3F9353D4EDBF6DC93A0975858B9A671863AE5073F2368E4/anon/portalembed
At this point every ruling since the jury verdict has been appealed to the District of columbia court of appeals, Thus, noting is going to happen for another 12-18 months
Based on my reading of Judge Irvings post trial rulings have been on solid ground. Thus any pro Mann reversal will be based on sympathy by the appeals court for mann. The appeals court was fooled by Mann’s pleadings in the initial appeal of the slapp motion back in 2013/2014. I think Judge Irving laid out the facts in his orders that the appeals court will be on notice that Mann’s pleadings have all been rife with deceptions and therefore wont be so easily fooled as they were the first time.
One would think it would be difficult, and to not be seen as insulting to the court, to plead for sympathy after having been sanctioned for bad faith performance during the trial. I would not put it beyond Mann’s personality, as we’ve seen it, to try–but it might be impossible to pay legal council enough to help. His lawyers are in enough trouble already and were given a break by not being charged with perjury.
My reference to “sympathy” was the judges being sympathic to the belief in Global warming and the validity of the HS. The Appeals court during the initial hearing in 2013/2014 was fooled by Mann’s claim that He and the science was exonerated by the 8 investigations. Big possibly that the Appeals court will ratchet down the $530k substantially due to sympathy for Mann – Why should mann pay the defendents when his “science is correct” or at least the judges will likely believe his science is correct.
Though everyone that is paying attention knows his HS lacks validtiy
An appeals court does not hear the facts in a case on appeal. The appeals court looks into reversible errors made by the lower court. Basically, the appeals court reviews the lower-court case to ensure that all procedures were performed correctly, that all precedents were observed and interpreted correctly, etc. The facts of the case aren’t material to the appeals court. (Or, at least, shouldn’t be, but, as I said, it is the DC Appeals Court).
Engineer – Jim
That is presuming the Appeals court doesnt pull a De Novo stunt.
My educated thought on the case is
A) the judge should have dismissed the case due to lack of proof of malice under the standard set by the US Supreme Court in harte Hanks – ie both simberg and Styen has valid reasons to believe their statements were true and the plaintiff did nothing to dispute that fact. However, that issue is not before the appeals court.
B) The award for the $530k of costs will either be substantially lowered or alternatively eliminated because, CEI and NR were dismissed too late and/or under the wrong criteria to be award SLAPP fees.
Of course we wont know the answer for another 12-18 months
It’s the DC Appeals Court. What did Steyn call them?
Steyn called the entire DC court system a sewer. It took 12 years for the case to be heard. Steyn’s witnesses thoroughly debunked Mikey’s hockey stick PC analysis. Mikey tried to mislead the mostly liberal jury about how much he lost in grant money after Steyn’s 2012 article. Mikey actually lost grant money after the 2009 “Climategate” scandal.
Mikey should have lost all scientific credibility after truncating a tree-ring series and hiding it with recent observed surface temperatures. This is scientific fraud and is not allowed in science. But the IPCC needed his flawed hockey stick to continue the global warming scam.
The jury in the lower case were fooled by an appeal to some non-existent higher goal of protecting the environment from “climate change.” Then the jury awarded (and the judge allowed) Mikey one million dollars in damages, violating Steyn’s eighth amendment right against unreasonable fines and penalties.
The appeals court partially reversed the stupidity of the lower court but it’s still DC, where people who are not far left cannot get a fair trial. Just like in NYC. It bites the big apple. How soon we forget.
Mann can have a used hockey stick he can sit on, if it helps…🤪
I might donate if I could get an explanation of what “The Cause” is.
“Help a Mann Out”
And what about every Mann for himself?
“more than a decade of legal proceedings”
$53,000 per year [wasted on an easily bruised ego] seems like what some might call climate justice…
Really- bruised ego- many scientists and other people in the public realm- are insulted all the time and few bother to sue anyone. It’s so much more mature to just ignore insults.
Far better to laugh in their faces.
For someone to insult you, you have to actually give a stuff about their opinion. 😉
Mann should do the mannly thing….drop the hockey stick and pay up!
And pay the Canadian judgement, as well.
Awesome image at the top- and the action figure too! 🙂
This story will NOT be in the MSM. He’ll still be referred to in the MSM as some kind of Einstein of climate science.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer Mann. Eventually the truth comes out.
Spewed my coffee reading this.
The best tactic is humor and parody. Well done.
I’ll help him out. Which way did he come in?
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
Ooops . . . it appears you’ve left out the two top-tier levels: for a $25,000 donation one receives all the lower tier perks PLUS a photocopy of a statement (unsigned) from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences stating how proud they still are to have Michael Mann as a member. Bump the donation up to $50,000 and you’ll also receive a photocopy of a statement from the Royal Society about their pride in having him as a Foreign Member.
And all donations are NOT tax-deductible, even though Mann is now non-profitable.
(No disclaimer . . . so sue me, Suzy!)
At what level do you get a signed copy of his Nobel Prize award letter?
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.”― Oscar Wilde
I would add “…and the highest form of Insult.”
The guy that first said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit has been quoted many times.
He was being sarcastic….
or just “takin’ the piss”
(which, imo, is the most delicious form of humour)
That phraseology hasn’t caught on in America unfortunately, although it should have in my opinion. Same with w@nker.
So saying this thread is taking the piss outta that w@nker would require a translation for many folks here.
Any Aussie would know exactly what you meant 😉
Some of us are multi-lingual.
Or married to an Aussie for over 30 years.
He can talk brilliantly upon any topic, as long as he knows nothing about it.
some people cause happiness wherever they go, others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Somebody in his position probably has umbrella insurance. I’m sure his lawyers would have advised hm to get it long ago.
And what makes you think that Michael Mann ever listens to advice?
And entirely right too.
Couldn’t happen to a better Mann. Let’s hope he finally gets the justice he deserves. Many real experts with actual climate expertise have been compromised because of this charlatan. Time for a change.
Well done Charles.
Have you thought about moonlighting with posts to the Babylon Bee?
🙂
Let’s all send him a lump of coal.
He could then sell them on the black market this winter.
Increase his “carbon footprint?”
Outrageous.
I have the box, do you have the coal?
Great idea. If it does really, really well, we could make James Hansen a coal train of death too.
Brilliant. Come Uppance at last. Unfortunately so many people have been lied to about the climate that there may be some who will take this article seriously
Why does he always seem like he is copying ‘Pluto’?
Clearly sarcasm, but for posterity perhaps a note?
JFC. It’s categorized parody and this is at the bottom:
I’m sorry I can’t hold your hand through the Internet to walk you to work.
Perfect!
In several generations the M.E.M. action figure could be valuable (Pawn Stars), except that no one would want it; no one would know who/what it represents
Mikie’s caricature as Humpty Dumpty looks more human than he does in real life. Sort of leaves out the piggy shifty eyes. When does he retire. All that distinguished professor stuff must wear you out. Anyone had the misfortune to do one of his degree courses. A lot of cruel and unusual punishment there J would think.
Story tip
Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK (BBC) No Laughing out loud.
A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England’s south coast.
The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of its search for technologies that fight climate change.
There’s broad consensus among climate scientists that the overwhelming priority is to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the chief cause of global warming.
But many scientists also believe that part of the solution will have to involve capturing some of the gases that have already been released.
These projects, known as carbon capture, usually focus either on capturing emissions at source or pulling them from the air.
What makes SeaCure interesting is that it is testing whether it might be more efficient to pull planet-warming carbon from the sea, since it is present in greater concentrations in water than in the air.
To reach the project’s entrance you have to go round the back of the Weymouth Sealife Centre and walk past a sign that says “Caution: Moray Eels may Bite”.
There’s a reason this ground-breaking project has been placed here.
It’s a pipe that snakes under the stony beach and out into the English Channel, sucking up seawater and bringing it onshore.
The project is trying to find whether removing carbon from the water might be a cost effective way of reducing the amount of the climate warming gas CO2 in the atmosphere.
SeaCURE processes the seawater to remove the carbon before pumping it back out to sea where it absorbs more CO2.
Rube Goldberg would be proud.
And where is the captured CO2 stored?
“The project is trying to find whether removing carbon from the water might be a cost effective way of reducing the amount of the climate warming gas CO2 in the atmosphere.”
I’ll accept 10% of whatever is being wasted on this joke of a project to tell them that the answer to that question in No.
I don’t like Mann.
Who is the loser now?
Again, not one of the usual climate stall-warts has come out to support Mickey Mann.
Seems they also know how corrupted his pseudo-science was.
How does that nursery rhyme go… ?
Nobody likes him,
Everybody hates him,
Think he can go eat worms.
He’s a big fat slithery one.
With an Eensie weensy squeensy brain.
See how he squiggles and squirms!