From Fox News By Tyler Olson | Fox News Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a fiery defense of free speech Monday morning as the high court announced it would not hear an appeal from the conservative magazine National Review in a defamation case against it by liberal climate science professor Michael Mann. … National…
It’s been entertaining watching activists on Twitter arrange their circular firing squads~ctm From Forbes Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash Green Tech We write on environmental issues, climate politics and NGOs. The climate debate has taken a nasty turn. It is no longer a shouting match between climate affirmers and climate deniers. Now the finger-wagging is…
Guest commentary by David Middleton Have you noticed the media’s coverage of Dr. Tim Ball’s court victory? Neither did I. The great news about Dr. Tim Ball’s court victory over Michael Mann appears to have been ignored by everyone except WUWT and the GWPF. I wonder why? I did find this on ARS Technica: Have…
From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor A D.C.-based libertarian think tank petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a years-long defamation case involving leaked emails from climate scientists that seriously undermined the credibility of alarming global warming predictions. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) wants to overturn a lower court decision allowing…
After years of trying to suppress their release, and finally being ordered to be released by a judge, they are now public, and we have them here. This will remain as a “top post” for a day, new stories will be below this one. There’s quite a treasure trove, but also some duplications from previous…
Or at least some evidence… Guest rebuttal by David Middleton From the Hartford Courant: Climate change was behind this summer’s extreme weather By Michael E. Mann November 3, 2018 Summer 2018 saw an unprecedented spate of extreme floods, droughts, heat waves and wildfires break out across North America, Europe and Asia. The scenes played out…
Long time WUWT readers may remember that a defender of “the cause”, Professor Scott Mandia, donned a Halloween costume and professed his love of defending Michael Mann and others who have had to suffer the terrible, terrible, tragedy of people asking Climategate related questions about validity of science, peer review gatekeeping, and funding. Mike likes the…
One of the hurdles Michael Mann has to overcome in his lawsuit against NRO/Steyn is the tenet that public figures are expected to have a higher level of tolerance when it comes to ridicule, satire, and defamation. For that reason, because I myself am a public figure in the climate debate, I’d have little success…
Dr. Mann doesn’t seem to know who he’s labeling as a “garden variety troll”. This is probably just a conditioned reflex on his part, since anyone who disagrees with the omniscient Mann is eventually labeled a troll, but in this case, Dr. Mann’s annoyance gives the extra distinction of “garden variety troll”. Observe:
What a great Christmas present for Mike. It is back to square one for him with his lawsuit over what he views as libel by Mark Steyn and CEI. For background, see this WUWT story: Mann has filed suit against NRO (now the laughing begins) Since the previous ruling this summer that said the lawsuit could…