Just deserts for the despicable, lying, little toad, Mikey Mann.
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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Obama can’t pardon in a Canadian civil suit.
“Mann belongs “in the state pen, not Penn. State.”
There’s some pretty clever phrasing here.”
As Steyn says in his counterclaims, it is an epithet that has been “applied to innumerable Pennsylvanians in the past.”
The guy is too good.
As a former research scientist: “Garbage in, garbage out.”
When I was growing up in Texas the word “hockey” was not a game,it was another word for “crap”. As in..... horse hockey.
Never take a hockey stick to a gavel fight?
Just deserts for the despicable, lying, little toad, Mikey Mann.
Penn State seems to have lots of problems.
Having dealt with only “one” of their graduates from the school of Meteorology I can say that that “one” received his Masters Degree with lots of help from his secondary school of “Political Correctness”.
He was so incompetent as a meteorologist that he eventually ended up working for a roofer.
“Algore and the others made their money using Mann as their monkey boy”
I think Al Gore should be investigated, for all I know he put Mann up to it.
“He was so incompetent as a meteorologist that he eventually ended up working for a roofer.”
One would think that roofers, exposed to the elements as they are in their chosen profession, would prefer the more competent meteorologists, rather than less...
One would think that roofers, exposed to the elements as they are in their chosen profession, would prefer the more competent meteorologists, rather than less...
Ah there you go... thinking logically. He ended up being the guy on the roof removing the old shingles before the new ones could be laid down.
He was so bad that he couldn’t predict that it would be hot in the afternoon in summer in Florida.
I guess their focus was football
The wonder of Steyn’s counter claim is Mann can now be forced to disgorge his metadata, information he’s managed to conceal up to now. It’s as though somebody finally figured out a way legally to compel the Mahdi and Moochelle to disclose their background data.
That has about as much chance of happening as Democrats declaring Obamacare a failure and throwing in the towel on that abomination.
True.
He can show his data and lose. Or he can withhold his data - and LOSE! Things are getting HOT for Mann and it’s NOT because of Global Warming!
Mark Steyn ping.
Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.
Thanks for the ping P.O.E.
Thanks for the ping! Mann can’t disappear fast enough for me.
Bttt
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