No, what I'm saying is that if the case goes to trial and Steyn proves the falacy of the man-made global warming religion, it can be used to confront the "settled-science" crowd. However, if Steyn is funded by oil/coal companies, the lefties will use that fact to deminish the actual result of disproving man-made global warming.
He can't do that because his stated defense is that what he said was merely opinion.
Accept the reality, what Steyn said/did back at that time was one part of a co-ordinated attempt to discredit.
There is an old rule: When you start calling people names, that means you are losing the argument, or have lost the argument