Posted on 02/21/2014 7:02:47 PM PST by P.O.E.
Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue skeptic Canadian climatologist, Tim Ball. Door now wide open for criminal investigation into Climategate conspiracy.Mann arrest photo
Buoyed by Dr Ball's successes, journalist and free-speech defender, Mark Steyn has promptly decided to likewise countersue Michael Mann for $10 million in response to a similar SLAPP suit filed by the litigious professor from Penn. State University against not just Steyn, but also the National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg. Ball's countersuit against Mann seeks "exemplary and punitive damages. " Bishop Hill blog is running extracts of Steyn's counterclaim, plus link.
Mann’s chief undoing in all such lawsuits is highlighted in a quote in Steyn’s latest counterclaim:
“Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its [his science’s] respectability - by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia...”
At last, after 3 years of legal wrangling, it is made clear why I was so bold as to formally undertake an indemnity to fully compensate Dr Ball for my own actions in the event Mann won the case. Respected Aussie climate commentator, Jo Nova was one of the few to commend my unparalled commitment to Ball's cause.
Steyn’s legal team, aware of the latest developments from Vancouver, have correctly adduced that Ball has effectively defeated Mann after the Penn. State pretender’s preposterous and inactive lawsuit against Ball was rendered dormant for failure to prosecute. Under law, Mann’s prevarications, all his countless fudging and evasiveness in the matter, establishes compelling evidence that his motive was not to prove Ball had defamed him, but more likely a cynical attempt to silence fair and honest public criticism on a pressing and contentious government policy issue.
The fact Mann refused to disclose his ‘hockey stick’ graph metadata in the British Columbia Supreme Court, as he is required to do under Canadian civil rules of procedure, constituted a fatal omission to comply, rendering his lawsuit unwinnable. As such, Dr Ball, by default, has substantiated his now famous assertion that Mann belongs "in the state pen, not Penn. State." In short, Mann failed to show he did not fake his tree ring proxy data for the past 1,000 years, so Ball’s assessment stands as fair comment. Moreover, many hundreds of papers in the field of paleoclimate temperature reconstructions that cite Mann’s work are likewise tainted, heaping more misery on the discredited UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) which has a knack of relying on such sub prime science.
Where Do We Go From Here?
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Steyn ping
Hopefully he will die a poor and broken lieing liberal pos.
All his bros in the globule warming farce aren’t jumping in to help him? Were is Algore and all his millions? The can’t help a brother out? Shame on them.
Wow...now that is consesus I can believe in
Haha! Mann is such a twit!
Exactly. Another socialist scam-artist POS grave to urinate on.
for later
But but butt our Secretary of State and Dear Leader say that Goreball Warming (or is it now “Climate Change”) are the biggest threat to us EVER. Would they lie to us?! I’m SHOCKED. /spit and sarc
Here’s my favorite part of Steyn’s counterclaim:
“111. Denies the allegations in Paragraph One-Hundred-And-
Eleven of the Amended Complaint, and feels Plaintiff is
going round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a
wheel, like the circles that you find in the tree-rings of
your mind.”
http://www.steynonline.com/documents/6109.pdf
“The fact Mann refused to disclose his ‘hockey stick’ graph metadata in the British Columbia Supreme Court, as he is required to do under Canadian civil rules”
So basically his “hockey stick” data is full of cr@p. Hehehehehehehehe.
They will not help him because they see the writing on the wall, and they are scared, running for the high grass.
Away with the bastard. Throw him in debtors prison.
Penn State seems to have lots of problems.
Good for Mark Steyn. Wish more Americans were as brave as he
It is unwise to go up against Canadians when it comes to hockey sticks.
This is so delicious! And I hope Mark Steyn goes balls to the wall on his lawsuit. Hopefully, there will be many lawsuits now against a lot of people and Government Agencies who are involved in this fraud.
BFL
Academic Fraud is supposed to be a very serious matter. Let's see what Penn State does now.
Many people don’t understand this fact. Several decades ago a social work paper was published and later discredited, but to this day that paper and its results are still being cited in current papers without any reference to that fact.
As alarming are the presentation of studies that have not or cannot be replicated or verified and are cited as “settled science”.
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